In the course of reporting this week's Dead Freeway Society article, I talked with local historian Val Ballestrem, who sent along this image of the Southeast Portland of the future (circa 1973)! This proposed image of the Mount Hood Freeway running up Division Street is from the freeway's Draft Environmental Impact Study—the freeway would have torn out fully one percent of Portland's housing right in the heart of southeast.

• This is your mind blowing inpsirational activist snapshot of the day.