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Just a picture of the skyline of (mostly, now) residential inner NW Portland taken from the east end of the Steel Bridge.
Yeah, this is one of those it's a whole new world now maunderings.
About the only things that remain recognizable from before the year 2000 are the brick red apts down in front there, which date from the 1980s, and the iconic Union Station clock tower with its legendary GO BY TRAIN sign on the right. Thi high rise on the left, the shorter gabled roofs of the apartment silos to the right of that, indeed, all the lower roofs that seem to now cluster around Union Station's tower were, up through most of the 1990s, a rail yard that seemed ... well, eternal.
The massive development in that area didn't seem so galloping when it was happening. I worked in that area, and it was most gradual.
Those rearview mirrors really do make things look closer than they appear, don't they?
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