Sandy Boulevard

Recreating the Historic Columbia River Highway: Sandy Boulevard from A. F. Litt on Vimeo.

Exploring the Sandy Boulevard, old U.S. 30, alignment of the Columbia River Highway from Milepost Zero in Downtown Portland to the Sandy River Bridge...

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Music:

"There's Probably No Time" by Chris Zabriskie
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"Isolated" by Kevin MacLeod
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Then & Now: West of Celilo

This photo below is approaching the cliffs seen in the "Cape Horn" photo below it.

Cliffs East of The Dalles (2014)
Wasco County, Oregon. March 28, 2014
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The CRH East of Celilo Falls
Clarence E. Mershon. The Columbia River Highway: From the Sea to the Wheat Fields of Eastern Oregon. Portland: Guardian Peaks Enterprises. 2006. 1st Edition. 223.

This photo is pretty clearly mislabeled. 

I suppose there might have been a mistake made locating the photo since these cliffs resemble the one where the old tunnel was, west of the Deschutes River and east of Celilo Falls.

Looking at the imagery below from Google Earth, though, there is little doubt that the location of the old photo is between The Dalles Dam and the Trunk Railroad crossing.

CRH "East" Of Celilo Falls Location, I-84 Westbound Lanes
Google Street View Imagery Date: October 2007

CRH "East" Of Celilo Falls Location, I-84 Eastbound Lanes
Google Street View Imagery Date: December 2007

CRH "East" Of Celilo Falls Location, Ground Level
Google Earth Imagery Date: August 19, 2011

If this is the correct location of the old photo, then there are probably traces of the old highway underwater in the pond south of the freeway.

CRH "East" Of Celilo Falls Location
Google Earth Imagery Date: August 19, 2011

No. 160. Applegate Point, on Old Oregon - Trail Highway, near Celilo Ore.
Columbia Gorge Discovery Center Photo Archive
Catalog Num: 1999.13.94BB
Condition: Good
Date:
Location: The Dalles, Oregon
Title:
Content: No. 160. Applegate Point, on Old Oregon - Trail Highway, near Celilo Ore.
Other Notes: description from above on front no correspondence "sample"
Photographer: B.C. Markham, The Dalles, Oregon
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Then & Now: Western Terminus, Seaside

Seaside "Turn-Around"
Clarence E. Mershon. The Columbia River Highway: From the Sea to the Wheat Fields of Eastern Oregon. Portland: Guardian Peaks Enterprises. 2006. 1st Edition. (5)

Seaside "Turn-Around" (2014)
The western terminus of the Columbia River Highway. 

Seaside, Oregon. February 22, 2014 

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Not a perfect match, I'd have to get up on the roof of the Shiloh Inn restaurant to accomplish that...

Originally considered the western terminus of the Columbia River Highway, the "turn-around" at Seaside lost that status when the State Highway Commission proposed a 430-mile highway from Astoria to the California state line. Seaside, given "End-of-the-Trail" recognition by historians because of the salt cairn established there by the Lewis and Clark Expedition, was a logical choice as the western terminus of the great highway that followed in the "footsteps of Lewis and Clark" from Umatilla to the Oregon Coast.

Clarence E. Mershon.  The Columbia River Highway: From the Sea to the Wheat Fields of Eastern Oregon. Portland: Guardian Peaks Enterprises.  2006. 1st Edition.  (5)

Soon after its founding, the Oregon Highway Commission decided to extend the Columbia River Highway (CRH) westward to Seaside. On November 4, 1913, Clatsop County voters approved a bond issue for $400,000 for highway construction. By April 1914, forty-six miles of roadway, much of it through standing timber, had been surveyed. As planned, Seaside became the western terminus of the CRH. From Seaside, the highway paralleled the ocean beaches for twelve miles, then cut across lowlands another twelve miles into Astoria.

Clarence E. Mershon.  The Columbia River Highway: From the Sea to the Wheat Fields of Eastern Oregon. Portland: Guardian Peaks Enterprises.  2006. 1st Edition.  (7)

Original Western Terminus of the Columbia River HighwayGoogle Earth, 2012 Image