Radio Cab History 1958-59
In 1958, we made a big decision to buy our own property. The Oregon Transfer Garage, located at 1613 N.W. Kearney, was purchased, and became our new headquarters. We have been located there ever since. It is a large building, and easily houses a gas station, an auto repair shop, our offices, dispatch, driver’s room, radio repair shop, taxi meter repair shop, and had room left over to install a carwash later on.
In 1959, Yellow Cab of Portland came up for sale. In those days, the cab stands belonged to individual companies. Yellow Cab owned all of the good stands. A joint venture by the two remaining large companies, (Broadway and Radio), resulted in the purchase of Yellow Cab. This added an additional 30 permits and vehicles to our fleet, and gave us some good taxi stands on which to position ourselves. Later on, in 1970, Mayor Goldschmidt, made all stands open, first come first served.