Dairy Cooperative Association

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Dairy Cooperative Association

I haven't been able to find out much about this building. It was most recently owned and occupied by Land O'Lakes Purina Feed but the property is for sale now. You can see this building crossing the Ross Island bridge eastbound, or stop for a better view at SE 8th at Woodward.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...: Love your blog. Sort of follows the theme that Frank Jump is doing with his Fading Ad Blog in NYC. Something about these images that, to me, gives a sense of time passing that is very large and right in front of us yet we rarely see or think about.; April 5, 2009 at 12:30 PM
Unknown said...: I just discovered your blog, thank you for documenting all this. I love the old Darigold site also. From what I understand, the Dairy Cooperative Assoc was purchased by the Concentrates store, which operates out of the warehouse connected to that building.

You can find information on the site, including an old photo of this building, in which the sign on the back is visible, at PDXHistory http://www.pdxhistory.com/html/mayflower_farms.html

I'm currently painting pictures of several buildings at this site and am blogging about it at www.pdxicon.com.; June 9, 2010 at 8:36 AM

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Introduction

Commercial buildings at one time were often the canvases for painted advertising signs. Unlike today's stick-on mega-posters advertising beer and soft drinks and mobile phones and cigarettes, a hundred years ago buildings were as likely to advertise their own business as they were commercial products like Coca-Cola and Dutch Boy Paints. Portland, Oregon, has a dwindling collection of buildings with faded lead-paint-on-brick advertising, sometimes called "ghost signs." One once-rich source, the former "Northwest Industrial Triangle," has undergone a dramatic revitalization and is now known as the Pearl District. This means many of its old buildings with ads have fallen to redevelopment, buildings have been cleaned up and the ads removed, or, in a few cases, the ads have been the victims of graffiti damage.

Many buildings are clustered around the Thirteenth Avenue Historic District but these are posted in no geographically coherent pattern. Use my map below to orient yourself and take a little walking tour.

My original intent with this blog was to cover only the Pearl district, an area I had taken pictures of in 1996-97 and could compare then and now. I've since expanded to other areas of central Portland. I plan to eventually cover these geographic areas:
- Pearl District (done)
- Northwest (west of I-405) (done)
- Old Town/Chinatown (done)
- Downtown (done)
- Southeast (done)
- Northeast (done)
- North (done)

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Tuesday, March 31, 2009