In 1969, UNE’s Ludcke Auditorium was known as the All Souls Church, built in 1867 as part of the Westbrook Seminary campus.
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Flashback: Munjoy Hill, 1961
A 1961 news photograph shows a row of Congress Street buildings slated for demolition under urban renewal programs – but ultimately spared.
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Flashback: an Old Testament appeal against urban renewal, 1970
In 1970, a rooming house tenant protests against a Mercy Hospital expansion proposal that would have destroyed his home.
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Flashback: The Portland Lyric Theater, 1960
A 1960 news photograph shows the handsome theater building that once stood at the corner of Stevens Avenue and Brentwood Street in Deering Center.
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Flashback: A grand opening on Marginal Way, 1948
This 1948 Portland Sunday Telegram photograph was featured in a full-page advertisement for the grand opening of the ‘Minit Man Car Wash,’ located at the Century Tire garage in Bayside.
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Flashback: Spring Street urban renewal, 1972
Downtown Portland resembled a bombed-out war zone in a 1972 news photograph showing the construction of the Spring Street arterial.
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Flashback: Howard C. Reiche
A 1974 portrait features the educator for whom the West End’s Reiche School was named.
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Flashback: From the Portland Pilots (1947) to the Portland Sea Dogs
Two views of the home plate at Hadlock Field.
