The street is Burnside. The Milwaukie Tavern would be on your right. The HINES building on the corner would in the future be The Eagle and further down on that building was a recording studio where Louie, Louie was recorded.

citations & references:

· City of Portland Directory, page 231, 1964  - Milwaukie Tavern

This storefront (address since renumbered), once a tavern, was fingered in the 1964 vice reports of Chief of Police McNamara as being a lesbian hangout. The reports noted that it was frequented almost entirely by women who “dress like men, act like men, and are believed to be from areas outside Portland.”  Owner Edna Jordal was a widow at the time of the Portland City Council hearings in December 1964 [See Old Glory Tavern]. Out of the eight sought by Mayor Terry Schrunk and the Portland City Council, three were turned down flatly by their votes – Milwaukie Tavern, Model Inn and Mama Bernice’s. However, the OLCC overturned their decision and granted them liquor licenses. She had worked previously at the Transfusion Inn, a notorious lesbian dive located on Southwest Front almost at water level.  The only employees at the Milwaukee Tavern were women.  One, the manager, was identified in the records as “Miss Lewis” who had “served eight years in the service with an honorable discharge,” and the other a young woman of 22 who moonlighted in the evenings following her day job at Meier & Frank.

Per Gay Bars, Vice, and Reform in Portland, 1948-1965 page 121 Beka Smith, Portland State University https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2961/

Portland's police complained that it was particularly hard for the bureau to suppress lesbian behavior at bars.420 "Can't you arrest them for unbecoming conduct or something like that?" Councilor Bowes asked Lieutenant Crawford about the Milwaukee Tavern's lesbian customers. Crawford responded that it was difficult to make arrests because kissing between women was more socially accepted. Police officers perceived men kissing to be more uncontrovertibly sexual behavior.421

Per a paper called Chronology of Portland’s Gay Bars – author unknown, “Roy Cline owner 1962, Edna Jordal, owner; mostly lesbian; ( October 1963-Dec 1964).

Per the book The Queerest Places [A guide to Gay and Lesbian Historic sites] by Paula Martinac 1997 – cites the following, “For help in compiling the Portland listings, many thanks to Tom Cook, president of the Gay and Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest. For more sites associated with gay Portland, see “From Silence to Celebration! A guide to Portland’s Historic Gay Sites,” a publication of GLAPN. Don Horn reached out to Tom Cook, and he states that the name of the document was changed to the GLAPN A Walking Tour of Downtown Portland: A Century of Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Historic Sites June 1999. Per Paula’s book, she writes, “A lesbian hangout in the early 960s, authorities tried to close the tavern by denying it a liquor license. One police report noted that the patrons “dress like men, act like men, and are believed to be from areas outside Portland.”

Per the GLAPN - A Walking Tour of Downtown Portland: A Century of Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Historic Sites June 1999: This storefront once a tavern, was fingered in the 1964 Vice Reports of Chief of Police McNamara as being a lesbian hangout. The reports noted that it was frequented almost entirely by women who “dress like men, act like men, and are believed to be from areas outside Portland”.

Owner Edna Jordal who was a widow at the time of the hearings in front of the Portland City Council in December 1964. She had worked previously at the Transfusion Inn which was a notorious lesbian dive located on South Front Street almost at water level. The only employees at the Milwaukee Tavern were women-one who was identified in the records as “Miss Lewis” who was the manager and had “served eight years in the service with an honorable discharge,” and the other a young woman of 22 who moonlighted in the evenings following her day job at Meier & Frank [Department Store].

Per https://www.pdxmonthly.com/news-and-city-life/2018/05/in-1964-portland-tried-to-crack-down-on-the-city-s-gay-scene-here-s-what-happened: In the years after World War II, a small crescent of welcoming spaces evolved along our rainy streets. Some dated to the ’30s or before; many flickered in and out of existence according to the usual whims of business, culture, and real estate.  [later on in article] The Rathskeller, on SW Taylor Street, developed a reputation by the ’40s; in roughly the same era, women seeking women gathered at the Buick Café, at SW 13th and Washington. (Boag’s article quotes a 1949 police report: “These women were recently ousted from San Francisco for their actions and are ... confirmed Lesbians.”) By the early ’60s, the scene (as surveyed by a GLAPN tour of historic sites) included the lesbian-friendly Milwaukie Tavern and the gay-male-oriented Tel & Tel on SW Oak. 

Cited in Peter Boag’s 2004 Oregon Historical Society report entitled, “Does Portland Need a Homophile Society? states that policeman stated lesbians “dress like men [and] act like men.”

Milwaukee Tavern were women. One, the manager, was identified in the records as “Miss Lewis” who had “served eight years in the service with an honorable discharge,” and the other a young woman of 22 who moonlighted in the evenings following her day job at Meier & Frank. By the early ’60s, the scene (as surveyed by a GLAPN tour of historic sites) included the lesbian-friendly Milwaukie Tavern.