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  • Busting out of the joint was job for a safecracker

    Busting out of the joint was job for a safecracker
    2026/04/20
    Of all the prisoners who tried to escape from Oregon's state prison, the “yeggs” were most successful — if “successful” is the right word. Their schemes for leaving the jailhouse behind included a tunneling scheme right out of “The Shawshank Redemption.” (Salem, Marion County; 1890s, 1910s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1207d-safecrackers-were-good-at-jailbreaks.html)
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    8 分
  • Rusty derelict turned out to be Liberty Ship lifeboat

    Rusty derelict turned out to be Liberty Ship lifeboat
    2026/04/17
    What looked like a rotting-away hunk of scrap steel was a rare artifact of Portland's World War II shipbuilding industry — but the discovery was made just a few days too late. (Zigzag, Columbia County; 1940s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1207e-rusty-lifeboat-turned-out-to-be-relic-of-second-world-war.html)
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    7 分
  • How Oregon almost lost public access to beaches

    How Oregon almost lost public access to beaches
    2026/04/16
    After a beachfront landowner discovered a loophole in the law and fenced off “his” beach, other oceanfront property owners were eager to follow suit. Governor Tom McCall was determined to stop them, and this is how he did it. (Cannon Beach, Clatsop County; 1960s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1206a-how-tom-mccall-saved-public-beaches.html)
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    9 分
  • Childhood tree-planting memories for thousands

    Childhood tree-planting memories for thousands
    2026/04/15
    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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    10 分
  • Tillamook Burn ‘blew up’ with shocking speed

    Tillamook Burn ‘blew up’ with shocking speed
    2026/04/14
    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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    9 分
  • Tillamook Burn sprang from loggers’ bad gamble

    Tillamook Burn sprang from loggers’ bad gamble
    2026/04/13
    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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    8 分
  • Bunco Kelley, Coyote of P-town waterfront legend

    Bunco Kelley, Coyote of P-town waterfront legend
    2026/04/10
    Is there any truth to the stories of shanghaiings of the cigar-store Indian and of the dozens of dead guys found in the basement of the funeral parlor next door to the “Snug Harbor Saloon”? Well ... maybe. But then again ... yeah, no. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1890s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1407c.bunco-kelley-part2-the-myths.html)
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    10 分
  • Oregon’s most notorious shanghaier: Bunco Kelley

    Oregon’s most notorious shanghaier: Bunco Kelley
    2026/04/09
    He was Portland's most notorious bad guy, with his fingers in everything from shanghaiing sailors to smuggling opium. But ironically, when he was finally sent to prison, it was for a murder he clearly didn't commit. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1890s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1407b.bunco-kelley-part1-the-facts.html)
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    10 分