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Peek inside Portland’s 12 wildest bar bathrooms.
The Star Theater’s Backstage Toilet Sits Atop a Stairway
Norwegian black metal band Mortiis featured the Star Theater’s bathroom on an album’s back cover.
Binks Knows When You Peep Under a Skirt
The contraption is the brainchild of Binks co-owner Justin Youngers and the late Joe “Tap” Canich, who came in every Thursday at noon to clean the lines in Binks’ taps.
Anyone Who Visits Eris Cocktail Lounge Five Times Gets a Place on the Bathroom Wall for Their Cat
“If you come in five days in a row and then never show up again, your cat will still be on the wall.”
During Pandemic Shutdowns, Fire on the Mountain’s Fremont Bathrooms Got Trippy
Neither artist was super familiar with the Grateful Dead. So they just leaned into a super-trippy aesthetic.
Fifteen Years Later, Ground Kontrol’s Restroom Floors Still Score High
The walls say “1 up” and “2 up” above the urinals and “READY!” as per the beginning of the game.
The Bathroom at Foxtrot Is Like a Grandmother’s Vanity Room, but More So
Owner Britain Stephens says he’s still not done.
The Men’s Room at Wilshire Tavern Is Covered in Boobs
Customer and local artist Faye Cuneo painted the bathrooms for the bar late at night, “whenever I was in the mood,” about 15 years ago, she says.
A Nike Designer Brought Ian Curtis to the Midnight Society
Now the bathrooms feel like a Blade Runner movie starring Ian Curtis and Siouxsie Sioux.
The B-Side Bathroom Is a Museum of Beloved Dogs
“It makes me happy to go in there and see my buds.”
Around the Corner From Lombard House Sits “the Dumbest Bathroom You’ve Ever Seen”
The bathroom is now tiled with framed pictures of celebrities on toilets, each one inscribed by Brian Koch with an endorsement to Lombard House.