Offbeat Oregon History podcast

Offbeat Oregon History podcast

Author: www.offbeatoregon.com (finn @ offbeatoregon.com) Language: English Episodes: 100
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The Offbeat Oregon History Podcast is a daily service from the Offbeat Oregon History newspaper column. Each weekday morning, a strange-but-true story from Oregon's history from the archives of the column is uploaded. An exploding whale, a few shockingly scary cults, a 19th-century serial killer, several very naughty ladies, a handful of solid-brass con artists and some of the dumbest bad guys in the history of the universe. Source citations are included with the text version on the Web site at https://offbeatoregon.com.
Episodes
Famous dance hall hosted Berry, Cash, many more [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 9:20
Elvis himself is rumored to have played at The Cottonwoods, a jumpin' joint near Lebanon, where thousands danced to the music of many of the 20th Century's greatest musicians. Today, it's a vacant lot — piled high with m…
The notorious Tusko led a colorful and tragic life [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 11:35
Largest elephant in captivity went from “Tusko the Magnificent,” star of Lotus Isle, to “Tusko the Unwanted,” abandoned at the Oregon State Fair, with several destructive rampages along the way. But who could blame him?…
Lotus Isle, Oregon’s most surreal amusement park [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 9:29
The short-lived attraction on Tomahawk Island was launched in an attempt to shake down the owners of nearby Jantzen Beach; their bluff called, the backers were forced to go forward with it. (Hayden Island/Tomahawk Island…
Pirates were defeated in Yaquina Bay Oyster Wars [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 9:24
The oysters belonged to the Siletz Indians and their employees, but Richard Hillyer was determined to take them anyway. We don't know much about the final battle, but we do know the outcome, and it must have been a doozi…
NASA’s ‘Moon Trees’ have roots in Oregon forest fire [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 8:36
Astronaut Stuart Roosa had a special relationship with the U.S. Forest Service, and when it was his turn to go to the moon, he proposed a science experiment. You can see the results towering over Peavy Hall at Oregon Sta…
Rajneeshees’ doom sealed by scheme to seize power (Part 3 of 4) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 14:07
The Rajneeshee takeover of Antelope was not an anodyne bureaucratic exercise. To those who lived through it, it really did feel like a foreign military power had rolled into their town and occupied it. It started out ver…
Rajneeshees got on well with neighbors ... at first (Part 2 of 4) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 15:07
ON JUNE 1, 1981, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh boarded a Boeing 747 for a flight from Mumbai to New York City. Officially the trip was for medical treatment, and authorities were told he’d be heading back home to India afterwar…
Rajneeshpuram: Oregon’s most (in)famous ashram (Part 1 of 4) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 13:28
ONCE UPON A time in India, a man lived. He would go on to become one of the most influential thinkers in new-age thought, but at this time — the early 1960s — he was merely a philosophy teacher, and one of thousands of g…
Opium culture a forgotten part of urban underworld [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 9:13
A century ago, the drug had a dark, smoky allure for the 'fast' young men and women of Oregon cities, and smuggling routes through Portland were supplying the entire West Coast with the exotic, deadly stuff. (Portland, M…

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