160414 TBT Week 28 - 21st Avenue between Harrison and Jackson Streets looking south (circa 1920)

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If it's Thursday - it must be ‪#‎ThrowBackThursday‬! This week we're rolling back nearly 100 years (circa 1920) with a shot of an "unimproved" 21st Avenue looking south between Harrison and Jackson Streets - behind the old Milwaukie School (today's City Hall). See comments for additional details. ‪#‎MilwaukieTBT‬ ‪#‎HistoricMilwaukie‬ ‪#‎21stAvenue‬ ‪#‎HarrisonStreet‬ ‪#‎JacksonStreet‬ ‪#‎LookingSouth‬ ‪#‎Unimproved‬ ‪#‎Roadway‬ Photo Credit: the Milwaukie "Then and Now" book (published around 1980) available at the ‪#‎MilwaukieHistoricalSociety‬ - visit them on Facebook here: http://ow.ly/UioOe ‪#‎OregonHeritage‬ If you look closely you can see the SE corner of the old Milwaukie School on the far right and a couple of students sitting on the steps. On the left is a structure that resembles the Milwaukie Lumber building, but we don’t think this building is in the right place to be the present-day Milwaukie Lumber structure (it appears to be too close to the school). And in the center of the picture, down 21st Avenue at Jefferson Street, hidden behind the telephone poles, is the original St. John Episcopal Church building that was floated down the Willamette River in the 1960s and is now the Oaks Pioneer Chapel near Oaks Amusement Park in Sellwood.