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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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00:09:07

Vanport houses floated like life rafts in...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/02/01

The shoddily built Portland suburb existed for six years. In that time, it spawned Portland State University and helped bring ethnic diversity to the state. Few people realize how important the place really was. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1940s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1101d-floating-houses-helped-many-survive-vanport-flood.html)

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00:09:20

Mill owner’s fight with city sparked anti-Japanese riot

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/01/31

It's an event remembered with some shame in Oregon: A group of innocent, terrified men and women found themselves at the mercy of an angry mob, pawns in a power struggle between a mill owner and a group of townspeople. (Toledo, Lincoln County; 1920s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1302a-toledo-riot-mixed-racism-and-labor-unrest.html)

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00:09:29

Skipper’s refusal to leave ship angered rescuers

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/01/30

At great personal risk, Coast Guardsmen had to rescue the skipper twice, because he insisted on staying aboard the stranded steamship to defend its cargo from marauding salvagers. (Columbia River Bar, Clatsop County; 1920s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1601e.shipwreck-laurel-stubborn-captain-376.html)

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00:16:42

Recollections of one of Portland's first telephone...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/01/29

In March 1938, WPA writer Claire Churchill sat down with Anne Abernethy Starr for an oral-history interview, touching on Abernethy Starr's childhood memories growing up in frontier Portland and working as a draftswoman and as one of Portland's first telephone operators. (Source on Library of Congress Website: https://www.loc.gov/item/wpalh001932/ )

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00:10:04

Copter crash decimated Oregon journalism

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/01/26

PORTLAND, MULTNOMAH COUNTY - It was the first news helicopter in the nation, and it gave the Oregon Journal a huge advantage. But then, one day ... (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1801b.sam-jackson-helicopter-crash-journal-478.html)

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00:08:44

Oregon back country is rich in legends of buried...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/01/25

Stories of lost loot and buried booty have kept treasure hunters busy digging for gold in hidden corners of Oregon for the past 150 years. (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1101c-oregon-backcountry-rich-in-legends-of-buried-treasure.html)

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00:09:23

Radical Wobblies found support among loggers

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/01/24

Industrial Workers of the World union grew strong in the woods just before the First World War broke out — and the U.S. Army had to teach soldiers to cut timber to get the industry moving again. (Lumber camps, 1910s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1301d-wobblies-come-to-oregon-timber.html)

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00:10:43

Buying a B-17 for his gas station was a crazy adventure

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/01/23

Before he made it back, Art Lacey had survived a plane crash, bribed a fire department with illegal whiskey, kited a big check and made bitter enemies in Portland City Hall. But hey, all's well that ends well, right? (Milwaukie, Clackamas County; 1940s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1601d.bomber-gas-station-375.html)

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00:09:39

Autobiography of an Oregon Trail pioneer (Part 3 of 3)

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/01/22

In 1847, while a lad of 15, Mr. Brown crossed the great prairies and mountains of the Oregon Trail in a wagon train with his father, grandfather, and sundry other relatives. Brown’s grandfather kept a store back East in Illinois, and, being unable to liquidate it on congenial terms, packed all the inventory into wagons and hauled the whole thing across the country to Salem, where he set it up again. It was the first store in the history of the town of Salem. (For text and pictures, see

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00:16:58

‘Automo-bubble’ a part of Deschutes railroad war

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/01/19

SOMETIME IN THE late spring of 1909, at the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company’s ticket booth in Portland, a 19-year-old man named Jim Morrell laid down his last $2 for a ticket on the Bailey Gatzert, the famous Columbia River sternwheeler. Destination: The Dalles. Morrell was from Colorado originally; just now he was at loose ends, drifting through Portland looking for work. He thought he might find it in The Dalles. Someone had told him about a great railroad war playing out near The Dalles,

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00:09:01

Shipwreck of Brother Jonathan is ground zero in...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/01/18

Sidewheel steamer’s sinking was a major maritime disaster for Oregon; treasure hunters found the gold-laden wreck in 1993, touching off a big, undignified catfight with the state of California over salvage rights. (Offshore, Curry County; 1860s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1101b-shipwreck-of-brother-jonathan-ground-zero-in-fight-over-treasure.html)

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00:08:06

SPADs, Sopwith Camels made with Oregon spruce

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/01/17

The famous First World War aircraft were made of spruce, and one of the most important sources of the strategic wood for the Allies was the northern Oregon coast. (Toledo, Lincoln County; 1910s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1301c-great-war-planes-made-of-oregon-spruce.html)

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00:09:46

Fossil hunters' ‘Bone Wars’ came to Oregon, but just...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/01/16

It's probably just as well that no actual dinosaur bones were found here; the spiteful, unprofessional “cowboy paleontology” practiced by O.C. Marsh and E.D. Cope left Oregon's pioneer scientists profoundly unimpressed as it was. (John Day Fossil Beds, Wheeler and Grant county; 1870s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1601c.bone-wars.374.html)

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00:20:30

Autobiography of an Oregon Trail pioneer (Part 2 of 3)

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/01/15

In 1847, while a lad of 15, Mr. Brown crossed the great prairies and mountains of the Oregon Trail in a wagon train with his father, grandfather, and sundry other relatives. Brown’s grandfather kept a store back East in Illinois, and, being unable to liquidate it on congenial terms, packed all the inventory into wagons and hauled the whole thing across the country to Salem, where he set it up again. It was the first store in the history of the town of Salem. (For text and pictures, see

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00:10:30

State government was ‘decapitated’ by crash

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/01/12

When it came out just after the war, the Beechcraft Bonanza was the hottest private plane in the sky — a sleek, speedy, fuel-efficient hot rod. But it was very easy for a novice to get in deadly trouble flying one. (Rural south Lake County; 1940s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1801a.earl-snell-plane-crash-bonanza-477.html)

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00:07:49

“Wonder Dog’s” 2,500-mile odyssey put Silverton on...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/01/11

Lost in Illinois, the affable collie crossed the Rocky Mountains on foot in the dead of winter, making friends along the way and causing a sensation on his arrival. (Silverton, Marion County; 1920s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1101a-bobbie-the-wonder-dog-put-silverton-on-map.html)

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00:11:06

Gun-toting ‘Wildcat’ was nation’s first ‘shock jock’

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/01/10

Robert Gordon Duncan was the first radio broadcaster ever to be sent to prison for cursing on the air. For the first six months of 1930, the entire city was riveted to his radio show, wondering who he'd slander next. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1930s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1301b-oregon-wildcat-was-early-shock-jock.html)

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00:10:59

Portland ‘jitney wars’ were monopoly vs. small-biz

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/01/09

Regular motorists would swing by streetcar stops and offer to take passengers faster and in greater comfort for the same nickel. But the competition enraged the powerful plutocrats who owned the streetcar company. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1910s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1601b.jitneys-vs-streetcars.273.html)

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00:17:32

Autobiography of an Oregon Trail pioneer (Part 1 of 3)

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/01/08

On today’s Primary Source Monday offering, we have the first of a three-part series, which consists of most of the autobiography of J. Henry Brown. In 1847, while a lad of 15, Mr. Brown crossed the great prairies and mountains of the Oregon Trail in a wagon train with his father, grandfather, and sundry other relatives. Brown’s grandfather kept a store back East in Illinois, and, being unable to liquidate it on congenial terms, packed all the inventory into wagons and hauled the whole thing across

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00:08:31

Atlantis in Oregon: The underwater lost cities

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/01/05

The rising waters of lakes and reservoirs have submerged many budding Oregon metropolises over the years, from tiny one-horse towns to an entire Native American homeland. (Klamath, Baker, Lane, Wasco County) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1406e.lost-cities-oregon-atlantis.html)

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