portland bar stories

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.”

Cars Keep Crashing Into the Lucky Devil Lounge

“This one was not funny at all. Everything was just fucking demolished.”

In 2010, Two Food Industry Pros Were Tasered, Pepper-Sprayed and Thrown in Jail After Fighting in the Street About Pork

How often does anyone outside of farm country get into a brawl over a pig?

In 1994, Garbage Dumped at a Portland Bar Helped Solve a Notorious FBI Case

You know, the one involving Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan?

Tim Moreau Would Have Been 50 This Month, Had He Not Been the Victim of One of Portland’s Most Remarkable Crime Stories

With no body and no physical evidence, prosecutors had a tough case to prove.

In the Early 2000s, a Woodstock Pub Almost Single-Handedly Saved the PBR Brand

“We were going through hundreds of cases and dozens of kegs a week.”

Horse Brass Pub’s Former Owner Purchased the Place With a Drunken Deal Written Out on a Napkin

It would eventually become one of the most iconic beer bars in the United States.

A Night at the Goose Hollow Inn Convinced a Legislator to Change an Antiquated State Law

Only bars with full, hard-to-obtain liquor licenses were allowed to host any sort of entertainment that might inspire patrons to sing and dance.

One of Rock’s Most Doomed Romances Started on the Floor of Portland’s Scuzziest Punk Club

It was love at first fight.

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