In Portland, Every Bar Has a Story. Consider This Your Primer on the City’s Own Drunk History. if you really want to know what makes this town such a special place to drink, you must know its lore.
The Poet Who Used to Live Beneath Former Bar East End Was Evicted Over an Antique Firearm Customers typically ignored him, thinking he was “a homeless guy who snuck in or drunk uncle to one of the bands.”
Elvis Room Is a White-Walled Pelvic Thrust of Budget Extravagance and Low-Down Drinking It’s a white-painted, French-Colonial hall of gilded mirrors and painted naked ladies.
A Two-Story Elvis-Themed Bar is Planned in Inner Southeast Portland Portland will likely soon have a bar on Southeast Grand Avenue devoted to that great American sweat factory and rock and roll icon, the King himself.