Beaches, Boats, and Ports of the Columbia and
Willamette Rivers: Vintage photos and post-cards
From the collections of Harvey Golden and Kathy Tucker
Rooster rock in the Columbia Gorge. It doesn't look anything
like a rooster...
Wooden Square-riggers waiting to take on Grain, Portland Harbor. Post-
marked 1911.
Sailing Vessels in Portland Harbor, ca. 1910.
Portland Harbor.
Possibly the steamer landing in Salem; post-marked 1909.
Steamer at Cascade Locks, post-marked
1907.
Indians salmon fishing at Celilo Falls on the Columbia. Hydroelectric Dams have
removed the falls putting an end to thousands of years of fishing here.
Broadway Bridge, post-marked 1917.
Lower Columbia Gillnetters and Cannery; likely Astoria.
Westport, Washington, ca. 1954 (snapshot).
Double-ended motor gillnetter, a.k.a. "bow-picker." This is the same type of
craft depicted above in the foreground.
Grain loading in Portland Harbor.
Snapshot taken from a grain barge tugboat on the Columbia River,
East of the Cascade range.
Same types of barges as above entering the locks at The Dalles Dam,
1957. The tug's name is given as "Winquot."
Beach Party, ca. late 1940s, on the Columbia River (snapshot).
Somwhere on the Columbia, ca. 1958 or so.