Let’s explore Oregon and and particularly Old Town Portland, which has its roots in racism, beer, gambling and sex work, and predatory policing. This city truly was built by alcoholics and hustlers: Let’s talk ghosts of old-timey Oregon with Weird History Podcast Host and author, Joe Streckert.

3:00 why weird history is important 

8:00 tour guide in Portland

11:00 a brief history of Vanport, Oregon

14:00 early Portland history demographics

17:00 beer and gambling and sw 

19:00 why is Oregon so white and covertly racist?

23:00 Oro Fino Saloon and enforcement against sex work 

26:00 why factory-working women also did SW

29:00 policing and sex work

32:00 Nita Belles is a modern day Lola Baldwin

35:00 psychics, bowling, shooting galleries were targeted by cops too

38:00 Chinese business owners and respectability politics

41:00 Marie Equi and birth control and lesbianism 

44:00 a note on eugenics and early birth control

47:00 prostitution and “green” attitudes

51:00 why are Oregon clubs so different from neighboring states?

55:00 all old downtown buildings may have been used as brothels or rooms

58:00 the myth(?) of Nancy Boggs and the floating brothel

1:06:00 QAnon is like early century white saviorism 

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