Read and Download eBook Full
Author: Phil Stanford
Publisher: West Winds Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom a Portland Tribune columnist comes Portland Confidential, the story of Big Jim Elkins, a conman and criminal who arrived in Portland in 1937 and helped unleash prostitution, bootlegging, gambling, and drug running.
Author: Phil Stanford
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781627310444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEveryone's favorite cute little city on the West Coast just got a whole lot darker.
Author: Finn J. D. John
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2021-01-04
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 1614235473
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTucked away in the northwestern frontier, Portland offered all the best vices: opium dreams, gambling, cheap prostitutes, and drunken brawling. In its early days, Portland was a "combination rough-and-ready logging camp and gritty, hard-punching deep-water port town," and as a young city (established in the late 1840s) it developed an international reputation for lawlessness and violence. In the early 1900s, the British and French governments filed formal complaints about Portland to the US state department, and Congressional testimony from the time cites Portland as the worst place in the world for crimping. Today, tours of the alleged Shanghai Tunnels offer Portland visitors a taste of that seedy past.
Author: Robert C. Donnelly
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 0295991119
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDark Rose reveals the fascinating and sordid details of an important period in the history of what by the end of the century had become a great American city.
Author: Ray Bottenberg
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2008-06-01
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 9780738525341
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Val C. Ballestrem
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 146713953X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs Portland has grown and changed, so has its architectural landscape. Once prominent landmarks have disappeared--the Marquam Building collapsed during 1912 renovations, the massive chamber of commerce building became a parking lot and the Corbett Building became a shopping mall. The city skyline was shaped by architects like Justus F. Krumbein and David L. Williams, only to drastically change in the face of urban renewal and the desire for modernization. Discover the stories behind some of Portland's most iconic buildings, including the Beth Israel Synagogue and the first East Side High School, both lost to fire. Join historian Val C. Ballestrem as he explores the city's architectural heritage from the 1890s to the present, as well as the creative forces behind it.
Author: Amy Stewart
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 2008-03-18
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1565126459
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA globe-trotting, behind-the-scenes look at the dazzling world of flowers and the fascinating industry it has created. Award-winning author Amy Stewart takes readers on an around-the-world, behind-the-scenes look at the flower industry and how it has sought—for better or worse—to achieve perfection. She tracks down the hybridizers, geneticists, farmers, and florists working to invent, manufacture, and sell flowers that are bigger, brighter, and sturdier than anything nature can provide. There's a scientist intent on developing the first genetically modified blue rose; an eccentric horticultural legend who created the most popular lily; a breeder of gerberas of every color imaginable; and an Ecuadorean farmer growing exquisite roses, the floral equivalent of a Tiffany diamond. And, at every turn she discovers the startling intersection of nature and technology, of sentiment and commerce.
Author: Ray Bottenberg
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738558301
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPortland at the end of World War II was an international port and a powerhouse of the timber and shipbuilding industries. Oregon's largest city grew and changed in the decades that followed, adding new industries and population. It also endured reductions in shipbuilding capacity, a devastating flood, a declining timber industry, urban renewal, freeway construction, and social change. By the 1990s, a wave of globalization and big-box retail marketing swelled shipping at the city's port and swept away a surprising number of Portland's businesses, which remain in the fond memories of Portlanders. A few of these memorable icons include the stores Meier and Frank, J. K. Gill, Payless Drug, and Sprouse-Reitz; the restaurants Henry Theile, Jolly Joan, Tik Tok, Yaw's Top Notch, and Waddle's; the Jantzen Beach Amusement Park; the Portland Hotel; the Broadway, Fox, and Orpheum theaters; Henry Weinhard's brewery; the Ramblin' Rod television show; and Portland Wrestling.
Author: Joe Streckert
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2020-02-24
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1493046039
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen vice and scandal are all fun and games. Portland, Oregon began as a town of itinerant young men who had no shortage of diversions at the end of the workday. This city grew up with lots of revelry and little regulation. After the last tree fell in logging season and after the workday ended on the docks, those young men broke out the cards. Saloon culture quickly took hold in Portland, offering alcohol, sex, gambling, and other diversions. This book traces the storied and scandalous history of Portland, from the underground and elite saloons and gambling rings to the vice, scandal, and fun they brought. Readers will meet the impresarios, gangsters, and racketeers who colored Portland’s history.
Author: JD Chandler
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2013-03-19
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 1614238960
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA shocking true chronicle of some of Portland, Oregon’s most infamous criminal cases—from its wild roots as a frontier town to post-war 20th century. Here are some of the most horrifying crimes that made headlines and shook Portland, Oregon. The brutal Ardenwald axe murders. The retribution killings by Chinatown tongs. The fiendish acts of the Dark Strangler. In this compelling account, author JD Chandler chronicles the coverups, false confessions, miscarriages of justice, and the investigative twists of Portland’s sordid past. From the untimely end of the Black Mackintosh Bandit to the convoluted hunt for the Milwaukie Monster, Murder & Mayhem in Portland, Oregon is a true crime account that acknowledges the officers who sought justice and remembers the victims whose lives were claimed by violence—all while providing important historical context.
