Picture taken from center 1st Ave (21st Avenue) close to Main Street intersection and looking east towards Pacific University. On the left is a wood building with a sign on the side ICE CREAM In front of the store are two men and a boy. One man is leaning on a 4-wheeled cart on the sidewalk. There is a barber pole just behind these two men. Just a few feet down from these men is a right-hand steering open car with a man at the wheel. A building just beyond the car has a sign OREGON LAND COMPANY and next to it is THE BAZAAR then MILLINERY, BOOK STORE and CITY LIBRARY There is another man close to the Millinery sign. There is a two horse buggy parked at the end of the block by College Way. The street is packed dirt and the sidewalk and curb appear to be concrete. On the right is the wooden Congregational Church
A small body of water surrounded by trees on both sides, titled on the image, "Little Brook in City Park, Forest Grove." The brook might be Gales Creek during a period of low water. The location of the "City Park" is unclear, but may have been near the former Park Street, which has since then been renamed and forms the south end of D Street. There was a park near that location, which was usually called Naylor's Grove. This photograph was published as a postcard, and the backs of two copies are scanned here: one is postmarked 1913, and the other postmarked 1938.
