Streetcar Shelter Designs
Portland Streetcar has installed etched glass panels in selected streetcar shelters:

South Waterfront

The following four shelter desings feature a common background image -- A segment of an 1889 Portland River illustration, from the collections of the Oregon Historical Society.

SW Moody & Gibbs Shelter

Sponsored by Williams & Dame Development, Inc./North Macadam Investors, LLC

• Left panel photo - SW Caruthers Street, from the collections of the Oregon Historical Society
• Center panel - First House, from the collections of the Oregon Historical Society
• Right panel, lower right - Indian lodge, from the collections of the Oregon Historical Society

SW Bond & Lane Shelter

Sponsored by Gerding Edlen Development

• Left panel photos - Commercial Iron Works, Oregon Historical Society image CN 017545, Guns from USS Baltimore at Zidell, OrHi 106000
• Center panel photo - Ross Island Bridge Search Lights, OrHi 5691

SW Lowell & Bond Shelter

Sponsored by Ankrom Moisan Associated Architects

• Left panel photos - street scene, from the collections of the Oregon Historical Society
• White House, from the collections of the Oregon Historical Society

OHSU Commons Shelter

Sponsored by Oregon Health & Science University

• Left panel photo - Marquam Gulch, from the collections of the Oregon Historical Society
• Center panel photo - Marquam Hill, from the collections of the Oregon Historical Society

Portland State District

SW 3rd & Harrison (Southbound) Shelter

Sponsored by 200 Market Associates

• Background photo - South Portland circa 1910, Oregon Historical Society image OR58981
• Left back panel photos -
  • Top: Lovejoy Fountain, OrHi 74432
  • Bottom: PDC Chair Ira Keller, Portland Mayor Terry D. Shrunk, and landscape architect Lawrence Halprin reviewing Halprin's model for the Forecourt Fountain (later Ira's Fountain), OrHi 81930

SW 3rd & Harrison (Northbound) Shelter

Sponsored by 200 Market Associates

• Background photo - South Portland circa 1910, Oregon Historical Society image OR58981
• Left back panel photo - C. Bruce Forster 1981 photo of the South Auditorium District, provided by Portland Development Commission

Downtown

SW 10th & Madison Shelter

Sponsored by Eliot Tower

• Background photo - Tracks, 10th & Alder, ca 1921, Oregon Historical Society image COP 01837
• Left side panel photo - Portland Art Museum photo by Al Monner, OrHi 46503
• Left back panel photos - Thomas Lamb Eliot, ca 1932, OrHi 82629, SW Park at Madison, ca 1924, OrHi 81930

Pearl District

NW 10th & Marhsall

Sponsored by Hoyt Realty

• Background photo - Hoyt Street Freight Station, ca 1930s, Oregon Historical Society image OrHi 64167
• Left side panel photo - Daniel H. Lownsdale, Oregon Historical Society image OrHi 13420
• Left back panel photo - Canyon Road (Old Plank Road), Oregon Historical Society image OrHi 20702-A

Credits

Project Management: Portland Streetcar, Inc.

Panel Design and Production:

• Linda Wisner, Wisner Creative, 503.282.3929 www.wisnercreative.com
• Chet Orloff, Oregon History Works, chetorloff@msn.com, 503.223.5932

Panel Etching: Moon Shadow Etchers. Inc., 503.668.6154, www.moonshadownetchers.com

Panel Installation: Warren Pacific

Project Assistance: Nicole Peterson

Resources:

• Richard Thompson, author of Portland's Streetcars, 2006, Arcadia Publishing Co., Charleston, S.C.
• Stephen Leflar, author of THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS: A History of South Portland, Portland, 2007
• Oregon Historical Society
• Halprin Landscape Conservancy, Marcy McInelly