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The rise and fall of ‘king of Portland saloonkeepers’
LATE ONE SPRING evening in 1917, a man named A.L. Sauvie was trying to sleep, and not having much success. The problem was his downstairs neighbor, …
6 months ago
Goofy, Bluto, Bozo were all Oregon’s ‘Pinto’ Colvig
One of the 20th Century’s most influential show-biz men, the Jacksonville native was a Beaver who made it big; he worked on Disney projects and Popey…
6 months ago
Frontier journalists settled differences with gunfight
The nationally notorious “Oregon Style” of newspapering involved vicious personal attacks and a take-no-prisoners style of cutting invective; but it …
6 months ago
“Voice of Looney Toons” was the terror of his Portland high school
His teachers may not have appreciated Mel Blanc's humor and talents, but Portland radio listeners sure did — and later, so did generations of Bugs Bu…
6 months, 1 week ago
The Port Orford Meteorite: Was it all a big hoax?
If it's true, the 11-ton space rock is still out there — and worth over $300 million. But the guy who says he found it was in financial trouble, and …
6 months, 1 week ago
Finn on KPNW's Wake Up Call: Minor political hack became opium king of West Coast
A recording of an on-air conversation with Bill Lundun and Gerry Snyder of the Wake Up Call on Eugene's KPNW Radio AM 1120. Topic: James Lotan's path…
6 months, 1 week ago
Missing gold suggests something sinister in shipwreck mystery
There were, so far as we know, no survivors. But when the upside-down hulk drifted ashore, it was 200 miles off course — and there was no sign of the…
6 months, 1 week ago
“Shorty” Davis may be Oregon’s oldest cold case
Shorty Davis was a popular sheepman who one day in 1900 disappeared ... and no one has ever seen a sign of him since. Virtually everyone suspects fou…
6 months, 1 week ago
Filming of “worst Western ever” was a real spectacle
It was no 'Heaven's Gate' -- 'The Way West' was more like the 'Ishtar' of the late 1960s. It was spectacularly and expensively shot on location in Or…
6 months, 1 week ago
Boys’ summertime shipwreck adventure couldn’t happen today
They pedaled their bicycles from Portland to Astoria, snuck aboard a wrecked ocean liner, and spent the night marooned on board, with breakers crashi…
6 months, 1 week ago