Hi- Thanks for your reply, however: A few people now have confirmed to me that my mom (now 76 y.o.) having said she lived in Vancouver City OR was most likely meaning Vanport OR (which is a combination name of Vancouver and Portland OR) Mom mostly said she lived in Portland OR as a teenager when she worked in the Kaiser shipyard there and they were hard workers and long hours and their different shifts would make record times in building ships for the Navy to use in WW11...she would be so tired mostly that she slept when in the house or worked in the shipyard, doing nothing else except writing letters home to her boyfriend(later my dad) and her mom and aunt in Brooklyn NY. Anyway, the houses(not apt bldgs) were in a housing project built for people working in the shipyard building ships for WW11(from ca.1941-1945) All the houses were plainly built and without insulation, decoration, or overhangs, as well as no foundations i have now been told. When it flooded that Sunday a.m., the houses which were just sitting on concrete and not anchored down easily floated away..... Happy Trails, Joan *_~ > Hi, > Perhaps Vancouver City was on the Washington side of the Columbia River > (near where Vancouver is today) and it also was washed away when Vanport was > flooded in 1948. > My husband's older sister lived in Vanport when very young and I have seen > photos. It was a large "town" made up of apartment buildings. They may not > have been expensive or elaborate, but it definitely was NOT what comes to > mind when the word "shantytown" is used. Just had to include my opinion! :) > > Sharon Foree > S_Foree@Prodigy.net > >