SW 6th at Morrison, Portland Oregon 1939.

[JacobWergerTV]

and no one got hit?

[empte]

Portland did have a few cable cars in the earlier part of the 20th century, but were gone by this time.

[vimana19]

Poignant and sad to think all those people are probably on now. Music and video SUPERB.

[ragemanchoo82]

Is there still a MAX/street car line going through there?

[Xelmon]

Yes it does, though it's unidirectional now - Westbound on Morrison, Eastbound on Yamhill.

Is it me though, or does that street seem wider then today?

[ragemanchoo82]

So it only goes west on Morrison now?

[Xelmon]

Yeah, it took me a second to realize why the setup changed to that.

If the streets have been around like that by that time, the only way you'd get any kind of decent traffic nowdays was/is to split the rail lines.

Thus, you have a one-lane street next to the rails, both EB and WB.

Towards 16th it get's hinky, hitting I-405 and all of that jazz.

[ragemanchoo82]

Yeah, a lot of streets were 2-way streets back then, and later converted to 1-way, which included cable cars/MAX/etc.

[Xelmon]

Cable cars?

Portland had those?

By the way, I think we broke a record on youtube. 5 intelligent posts after another. :D

[KoolaidMolestors]

6! It's because we're Portland people.

[meyna1994]

they werent cable cars they would be on a cabe then,

they were called "trolleys" they are Electric not cable

[Xelmon]

... Ya know what interesting, we still call them that in Hungary, "troli".