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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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00:08:31

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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00:09:27

Japanese shipwrecks on coast predate Columbus

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/01/04

The case of John Ottoson (ne Otokichi) in 1832 illustrates what can happen: Blown off to sea by a gale, he and his comrades rode the Kuroshio Current to Washington State — much to the astonishment of Dr. John McLoughlin. (Oregon Coast; 1830s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1404d.japanese-junks-blown-across-to-oregon.html)

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00:10:10

Mislabeled wood alcohol killed 28 Portland hobos

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/01/03

The alcoholic derelicts of on Burnside Street knew they could count on denatured alcohol for a cheap-but-nasty buzz; it might make them sick, but it wouldn't kill them. But then, one day, it did. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1930s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1404c.poison-dehorn-killed-28-hobos.html)

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00:06:56

Story of sinister video game is urban legend

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/01/02

The darksomely sinister story of the old console game, with its attendant Men In Black and swarms of zombie children, is a fun story to look back on; but its odds of being true are up there with tales of Bigfoot. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1980s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1701e.polybius-legendary-sinister-videogame-428.html)

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00:11:41

Sara B. Wrenn interviews Bert Mendenhall about old...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2024/01/01

On May 15, 1937, WPA writer Sara B. Wrenn sat down with Bert Mendenhall for an oral-history interview, touching on Mendenhall's childhood memories in 1880s Portland as well as the stories told by his father, Rush Mendenhall, who crossed the continent on the Oregon Trail in 1847. (Source on Library of Congress Website: https://www.loc.gov/item/wpalh001987/ )

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00:09:10

Did ‘Vortex I’ prevent riots in downtown Portland?

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2023/12/29

On that tense late-August weekend, tens of thousands of young people enjoyed themselves at McIver Park, while the much-dreaded riots failed to materialize. Was there a connection? Many voters thought so. (McIver Park, Clackamas County; 1970s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1406c.291.vortex-the-event.html)

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00:09:25

McCall expected ‘Vortex I’ to cost him re-election

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2023/12/28

When McCall green-lighted the plan to distract potential street rioters with a week-long music festival, he fully expected to lose his job for it — whether it worked or not. (Salem, Marion County; 1970s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1406b.290.vortex-part2-the-family.html)

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00:09:12

Riot at PSU set the stage for ‘Governor’s Pot Party’

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2023/12/27

To Governor Tom McCall, it looked like Portland was about to explode, and there was nothing he could do to prevent it ... until two long-haired young people came to his chief of staff with a very unusual plan. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1970s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1406a.vortex-part1-psu-riot.html)

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00:08:54

NASA’s ‘Moon Trees’ have roots in Oregon forest fire

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2023/12/26

Astronaut Stuart Roosa had a special relationship with the U.S. Forest Service, and when it was his turn to go to the moon, he proposed a science experiment. You can see the results towering over Peavy Hall at Oregon State University today. (Cape Canaveral, Florida; 1970s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1405b.moon-trees-of-oregon.html)

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00:07:11

Ardyth Kennely interviews Newt McDaniel about the...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2023/12/25

In late 1937 or early 1938, writer Ardyth Gibbs (known to literary history today as Ardyth Kennely, author of several bestsellers in the 1950s) sat down with pioneer Newton McDaniel to talk about some early Willamette Valley history concerning the ghost town of Ellendale, in Polk County. (https://www.loc.gov/item/wpalh001936/)

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00:09:24

Childhood tree-planting memories for thousands

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2023/12/22

For decades after the Tillamook Burn, classes of schoolchildren were bused out to help replant. Today, thousands of Oregonians, on trips to the beach, can point to a thriving patch of forest and say, “We planted those trees.” (Tillamook, Yamhill, Washington county; 1950s, 1960s, 1970s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1408b.schoolkids-replant-tillamook.html)

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00:09:50

Tillamook Burn ‘blew up’ with shocking speed

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2023/12/21

Quick action by state forester Lynn Cronemiller prevented the devastating forest fire from claiming hundreds of lives when a furnace-stoking wind blew in from Eastern Oregon, flogging the fire toward the sea. (Washington, Yamhill, Tillamook County; 1930s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1408a.tillamook-burn-pt2-the-legacy.html)

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00:08:18

Tillamook Burn sprang from loggers’ bad gamble

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2023/12/20

A hard-pressed crew tried to snake just a few more logs out before quitting for the day, hoping nothing would go wrong in the tinder-dry forest. Unfortunately, something did. (Forest Grove, Washington County; 1930s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1407d.tillamook-burn-1933-outbreak.html)

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00:08:02

War-games campaign blanketed Central Oregon

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2023/12/19

Tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers, shipped to the Beaver State for training, learned combat lessons that would save their lives and help them win the Second World War during the huge campaign simulation known as the Oregon Maneuver. (Statewide; 1940s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1408d.oregon-maneuver-ww2.html)

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00:26:56

Reminiscences of Mrs. E.W. Wilson

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2023/12/18

In 1851, before Oregon was a state, a young schoolteacher named Elizabeth Millar stepped off a sternwheeler in Portland for the first time. These are her memories of that time, as recounted to her daughter, Mrs. J.T. Peters, 45 years later. In those 45 years, Miss Millar (now Mrs. Wilson) went on to become a very important person in frontier Oregon, the wife of a U.S. Congressman and Postmistress at The Dalles from 1884-1886. (For more details, see https://www.loc.gov/item/wpalh001971/)

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00:21:27

Oregon’s ‘tiger king’ became Idaho’s problem

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2023/12/15

ON THE EVENING of Sept. 28, 1995, Woney and Laurie Peters, of Lava Hot Springs, Idaho, were driving back to their home behind the local elementary school when they noticed something wasn’t right. The first thing they noticed was the horses. They were confined in a corral in front of the house, next to the trampoline, which their teenage kids were playing on. The kids seemed fine — but the horses seemed terrified. They kept staring up at the hillside that ran along behind the house and the

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00:11:13

Rosecrans rescue one of Coast Guard’s finest hours

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2023/12/14

Two motor lifeboat crews went out on the bar to save three surviving sailors. Both boats went to the bottom of the sea — but not a man was lost on either crew, and all the survivors were rescued. (Columbia River Bar, Clatsop County; 1910s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1506d.CursedShips-RosecransRescue.html)

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00:10:12

Cursed or not, Rosecrans was one unlucky ship

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2023/12/13

The big oil tanker had weathered two major catastrophes in the previous year — a stranding and a colossal fire. But for 33 doomed crew members, the third time would be the charm — or, rather, the hex. (Columbia River Bar, Clatsop County; 1910s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1506c.cursed-ships-rosecrans-344.html)

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00:11:19

Pioneer Chinese doc was a city treasure in John Day

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2023/12/12

Settlers in John Day in the late 1800s learned the healer of Kam Wah Chung could cure diseases others couldn't; all his patients survived the fatal Spanish Flu epidemic in 1919. (John Day, Grant County; 1880s, 1890s, 1900s. 1910s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1406d.doc-hay-lung-on.html)

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00:09:22

Cayuse tribe’s amazing ponies are now very rare

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2023/12/11

Legendary “Cayuse pony” breed gave Indians far more endurance and speed than settlers' mounts, a fact that cost gambler and horseman Joe Crabb most of his ready cash on “The Day Pendleton Went Bankrupt” (Pendleton, Umatilla County; 1870s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1404a.cayuse-tribes-legendary-ponies.html)

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