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White Eagle Saloon

By Matthew Korfhage

By the late 1990s, this moldering century-old dive showed its age solely through broken toilets until McMenamins impresarios exposed original ceramic flooring and brought along era-appropriate furnishings to match the oaken bar—a comforting middlebrow blur of vintage fixtures and a franchised future. The White Eagle now primarily serves as a venue promoting the suede fringe of adult-contemporary roots pop, while the former brothel quarters upstairs have become legendarily haunted hotel rooms, the restless spirits mystified by what the place has become.

Happy hour: 3-6 pm daily and after live shows. Drink specials.

Entertainment: Live old-time fare, fairly often.

836 N Russell St., 503-282-6810, mcmenamins.com. 11 am-11 pm Monday, 11 am-1 am Tuesday-Thursday, 11 am-2 am Friday-Saturday, 4-11 pm Sunday.

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Matthew Korfhage

Matthew Korfhage

Matthew Korfhage has lived in St. Louis, Chicago, Munich and Bordeaux, but comes from Portland, where he makes guides to the city and writes about food, booze and books. He likes the Oxford comma but can't use it in the newspaper.