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Originally Posted by 2oh1
20 years from now, we'll say the same thing about Lloyd, though that's going to be a very different neighborhood than the Pearl. But there will be people who came after the change and won't be able to understand that the neighborhood hadn't always been a neighborhood. I don't know what it was in the 1950s....
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This is a total aside, but I've been fascinated with the history of the Lloyd District lately. Given the era, one might assume that the area was once a thriving community that was destroyed by urban renewal, as happened in the Albina and South Portland neighborhoods. That doesn't seem to be the case. Historical photos I've found of it in the 1960s show the Lloyd Center site itself almost completely undeveloped.
This photo was taken in 1950 (north is to the left):
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