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Offbeat Oregon History podcast

www.offbeatoregon.com (finn @ offbeatoregon.com)

A daily (5-day-a-week) podcast feed of true Oregon stories -- of heroes and rascals, of shipwrecks and lost gold. Stories of shanghaied sailors and Skid Road bordellos and pirates and robbers and unsolved mysteries. An exploding whale, a couple shockingly scary cults, a 19th-century serial killer, several very naughty ladies, a handful of solid-brass con artists and some of the dumbest bad guys in the history of the universe. From the archives of the Offbeat Oregon History syndicated newspaper

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00:08:53

Lucky escapes from the ‘Graveyard of Ships’

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/11/05

When a sailing ship found itself in trouble in the legendary “graveyard of ships,” there was nothing left to do but count the bodies. But every now and then, a vessel would slip out of the icy grip of the bar to sail on. Here are a few such stories. (Columbia River Bar, Clatsop County; 1870s, 1880s, 1890s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1508c.escape-from-columbia-bar-352.html)

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00:13:54

Stories of earliest Oregon Trail crossings and life...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/11/04

WPA writer Sara B. Wrenn's oral history interview with Frances Looney Cornell, whose family was on one of the very first wagon trains to arrive in the Willamette Valley from back east. This is part 1 of a 2-part reading of this oral history file. (For the transcript, see https://www.loc.gov/item/wpalh001970/ )

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00:08:26

Lost-cabin treasure tales tantalize gold seekers

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/11/01

LOST OR ABANDONED cabins pop up so often in legends of missing gold mines and buried treasure that they are almost a cliché. Most of them follow a clear pattern or formula — in fact, all lost-treasure stories do: The seeker stumbles across the treasure while doing something else; he is called away for some reason; and he can never find his way back, despite devoting years to fruitless searching. There may not be a more faithful example of that pattern than the story of the lost cabin of Steamboat

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00:07:30

‘Christmas Ship’ could have used Santa’s help to...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/10/31

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer's shiny nose would have been the only light showing on the Oregon Coast after the Pearl Harbor attack; unable to see its position, the ship piled onto the beach at full steam. (Hammond, Clatsop County; 1940s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1608a.christmas-shipwreck-mauna-ala.403.html)

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00:07:59

Legendary Oregon wrestler got pinned by a real-estate...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/10/30

Olympic gold medalist and OSU legend Robin Reed might have been the best wrestler of all time; throughout his 20-plus-year career he was never once pinned. But his plan for the "Delake Rod and Gun Club" was more than he could pull off. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1920s - Lincoln City, Lincoln County; 1930s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1106b-robin-reed-delake-rod-gun-club.html)

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00:08:14

Six picnickers fell victim to Japanese balloon bomb

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/10/29

Lunching in the woods after church during World War II, hundreds of miles from the sea, Elyse Mitchell and four kids from church were killed in the blast. But, hoping to deny the Japanese knowledge of their “victory,” the newspapers kept it quiet. (Bly, Klamath County; 1940s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1508b.bly-balloon-bombing.351.html)

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00:17:44

The legendary Tabitha Brown of Forest Grove, founder...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/10/28

WPA writer Sara B. Wrenn's 1939 oral history interview with Mrs. H.A. Lewis, granddaughter of the legendary Tabitha Moffat Brown, officially named the Mother of Oregon by the state Legislature in 1987, talking about her life and experiences in Oregon after her arrival in 1847. This is Part 1 of 2 parts; it will be continued next Monday. (For the transcript, see https://www.loc.gov/item/wpalh001985/ )

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00:07:53

Truck bombings doomed newspaper unions’ cause

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/10/25

But the strike enabled Oregon Journal's trustees to sell the paper, in defiance of its former owner's direct bequest, to the owners of the Oregonian; the result was an outsider-owned daily-newspaper monopoly that continues to this day. (Oregon City, Clackamas County; 1960s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1607e.stereotyper-strike-part2.html)

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00:10:41

His cheating heart cost Oregon journalism dearly

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/10/24

Was the shooting of Donald Newhouse the action of a union thug, related to the strike at the Oregonian and Journal? Or was it a cuckolded husband taking revenge in a case of mistaken identity? Either way, it changed everything. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1960s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1607d.stereotyper-strike-part1.html)

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00:09:47

The wreck of the U.S.S. Shark: Navy’s loss was Cannon...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/10/23

The captain's desperate haste to get out to sea, combined with a terrible decision to cross the bar on the ebb, resulted in disaster — and the ship's stranded armaments resulted in a name for the town of Cannon Beach. (Cannon Beach, Clatsop County; 1840s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1508a.shark-shipwreck-part2.html)

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00:09:59

U.S.S. Shark doomed by skipper’s fear of desertion

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/10/22

As sailors melted away to take advantage of the opportunities in the new Oregon country, their captain sweated bullets; they could not be replaced. But his haste to get back out to sea while he still could set the stage for disaster. (Columbia River Bar, Clatsop County; 1840s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1507d.shark-shipwreck-part1.html)

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00:13:51

The legendary Tabitha Brown of Forest Grove, founder...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/10/21

WPA writer Sara B. Wrenn's 1939 oral history interview with Mrs. H.A. Lewis, granddaughter of the legendary Tabitha Moffat Brown, officially named the Mother of Oregon by the state Legislature in 1987, talking about her life and experiences in Oregon after her arrival in 1847. This is Part 1 of 2 parts; it will be continued next Monday. (For the transcript, see https://www.loc.gov/item/wpalh001985/ )

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00:19:14

Victor Strode: Oregon’s own real-life Tom Swift

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/10/18

ON THE MORNING of April 23, 1936, the city of Portland was proudly preparing to launch its new harbor-patrol and first-aid boat, the Jack Luihn.It was a big moment for the city. Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York City was in town and had been invited to attend. Reporters were on hand, and photographers snapping pictures. And the boat’s inventor was there — it was his moment of triumph. His wife stood ready with a bottle of champagne for the christening. The boat itself was a remarkably

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00:09:17

Oregon was only state with race-exclusion policy

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/10/17

In a country divided between slave states and free states just before the Civil War, Oregon was the only example of a third alternative: it was neither. (Statewide; 1850s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1308b-exclusion-law-marred-early-oregon-history.html)

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00:08:29

Blimp squadron was first line of defense against...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/10/16

Massive K-series airships were housed in the largest clear-span wood buildings in the world, near Tillamook; one burned in 1992, while the other houses the Tillamook Air Museum today. (Tillamook County; 1940s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1105d-blimp-squadron-first-defense-against-submarines-balloon-bombs.html)

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00:08:19

Oregon’s Atomic-age ‘gold rush’: Uranium mining

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/10/15

As the Cold War spun up, federal government guarantees sent thousands of Geiger Counter-packing prospectors in Army surplus Jeeps scrambling across Oregon's Outback, hoping to make their fortunes mining “A-metal.” (Central and Eastern Oregon; 1940s, 1950s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1507c.uranium-mining-gold-rush-348.html)

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00:08:43

1939, and the Livin' is Easy (WPA oral-history...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/10/14

WPA writer Sara B. Wrenn's short but interesting oral history interview with Mrs. John James of Lake Oswego, talking about the difference between life in her childhood versus the then-modern world. Hot and cold running water felt like a miracle the first time she experienced it! (For the transcript, see https://www.loc.gov/item/wpalh001972/ )

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00:15:58

‘Shoestring railroad’ beat the mighty Southern...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/10/11

Very few people outside Coos County, and probably not that many inside it, know what a big deal Coos Bay is.It’s the biggest deepwater harbor on the Northwest coast — that is, between San Francisco and Puget Sound. And it’s far safer than Portland or Astoria, tucked as they are behind the “Graveyard of the Pacific” at the mouth of the Columbia. So, one has to wonder why it had no railroad connection to the outside world until 1916 — more than 30 years after Portland got one. There have to have

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00:11:06

“Holy roller” cult ended with murder, suicide, insanity

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/10/10

Bride of Christ cult sought perfect righeousness, Christ-like simplicity and total humility. In practice, though, it spawned nothing but misery and madness, and a legal precedent for “honor killings.” (Waldport, Lincoln County; 1900s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1106a-bride-of-christ-holy-rollers-in-corvallis-ending.html)

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00:10:49

The real story of the Corvallis “naked ladies cult”:...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/10/09

Preacher Edmund Creffield's Bride of Christ Church broke up families, sanctioned adultery and inspired deadly violence in the early 20th Century. Ironically, its practitioners' goal was perfect holiness and godliness. (Corvallis, Benton County; 1900s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1105e-bride-of-christ-holy-rollers-in-corvallis-beginning.html)

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