History by the Glass
53 episodes - English - Latest episode: 16 days ago - ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWelcome everyone to the History by the Glass podcast. Your tour of Portland, Oregon's famously historic and infamously endangered bars, pubs and saloons. Inspired by Paul Pintarich's "History by the Glass" book series.
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37 — Sextant Bar & Galley. etc.
July 05, 2024 19:11 - 49 minutes - 67.4 MB*DRUMS PLEASE* Here it is, the pod, slightly transformed, just a bit of a break from the norm, just a little somethin' to break the monotony... Yes indeed, it is SUMMERTIME in the city and on the eve of America's birthday, the HBTG boys put their sunglasses on, oiled each other up like a pair of Navy fighter pilots prepping for a sand volleyball game, and headed north to the mighty Columbia River to seek, no, not the Northwest Passage, but the oldest bar in Portland's sector of this legenda...
36 - My Father's Place
June 13, 2024 09:30 - 1 hour - 33.4 MBFathers. You have 'em, you may be 'em, you probably love 'em, and you may also drink in dark bars because of 'em. But there's no better place in Portland to linger over a stiff pour and big ol' pile of eggs while thinking about yours than My Father's Place aka MFP (523 SE Grand Ave.). Established as MFP in 1978 (yes, ANOTHER late '70s bar!) and a local watering hole since at least 1935, it features a triple option of drinking/dining/entertainment experience to suit whatever outlook on life...
36 — My Father's Place
June 13, 2024 09:30 - 1 hour - 33.4 MBFathers. You have 'em, you may be 'em, you probably love 'em, and you may also drink in dark bars because of 'em. But there's no better place in Portland to linger over a stiff pour and big ol' pile of eggs while thinking about yours than My Father's Place aka MFP (523 SE Grand Ave.). Established as MFP in 1978 (yes, ANOTHER late '70s bar!) and a local watering hole since at least 1935, it features a triple option of drinking/dining/entertainment experience to suit whatever outlook on life...
35 — McPeet's Portland Pub
May 01, 2024 09:00 - 58 minutes - 54 MBFive 1/2 years ago...two earnest, but slapdash episodes into this grand experiment called the History by the Glass podcast...we were contacted out of the blue...by an actual BAR. And not just any bar, but an honest-to-god OLD bar who simply said, "Love your podcast!" -- the first inkling we had that maybe this thing might possibly resonate beyond our immediate friends and family. Of course, that bar was none other than McPeet's Portland Pub (4501 NE Fremont St., Est. 1979), which we had ...
35 - McPeet's Portland Pub
May 01, 2024 09:00 - 58 minutes - 54 MBFive 1/2 years ago...two earnest, but slapdash episodes into this grand experiment called the History by the Glass podcast...we were contacted out of the blue...by an actual BAR. And not just any bar, but an honest-to-god OLD bar who simply said, "Love your podcast!" -- the first inkling we had that maybe this thing might possibly resonate beyond our immediate friends and family. Of course, that bar was none other than McPeet's Portland Pub (4501 NE Fremont St., Est. 1979), which we had ...
34 — Dan & Louis Oyster Bar
April 04, 2024 09:30 - 52 minutes - 48.9 MBEstablished in 1907, Dan & Louis Oyster Bar is Portland's oldest family-owned restaurant. Is it really a bar though? Or just a restaurant that serves drinks? We'll leave that for you to decide. But is it a FANTASTIC place to eat, drink, and connect with Old Portland? Abso-shuckin'-lutely. Yes, like Roger Sterling and Don Draper in Mad Men's Season 1 classic "Red in the Face" oyster lunch scene, the HBTG boys were busting after a midday bacchanal of invertebrates, martinis, and cheeseca...
34* — Too Soon
April 01, 2024 11:00 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBJoin us dear friends for another succinct and well produced episode of History by the Glass -- Portland most popular podcast tour of the city's freshest, hottest, and relatively historic bars, pubs, and saloons…whiskey libraries, modern speakeasies, craft brew pubs, and mixology dens. In this rare commercial-free episode, we asked how soon is Too Soon when we visited Northeast’s 8-week-old Too Soon cocktail lounge -- the oldest bar in Portland serving complimentary warm cookies at last call...
33 — The Slammer Tavern
February 26, 2024 13:00 - 58 minutes - 54.4 MBRemember FUN?! Well, thanks to vibrant old locals like The Slammer Tavern (500 SE 8th Ave.) it's BACK. And, hey, so are WE for a THIRD season of History by the Glass! We were thrilled to get busy living at one of Portland's most unique, friendly, and fun-loving dives (or is it?), which has been sentencing folks to good times as "The Slammer" since the late '70s on the ground floor of a towering, mysterious 135-year-old building that's featured a neighborhood watering hole since the start ...
32 — The Wishing Well
December 31, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 61.5 MB"It was after Christmas babe...in a Chinese restaurant dive bar...an old man said to me, won't see another one..." The season 2 finale and annual holiday special found the HBTG boys holed up at St. Johns' historic and wonderfully divey Wishing Well Chinese restaurant lounge (8800 N. Lombard St.), fulfilling a Christmas tradition for Nathan while reflecting on the poetic melancholy of the season and a banner year of old bar adventures. Thank you all for listening and telling your fellow ba...
31 — Laurelthirst Public House
November 27, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBJust like one of John Madden's legendary turduckens, we squeezed an obscene amount of goodness into THIS, our Thanksgiving/inaugural listener's choice/5-year anniversary special! Longtime listener Matt Wyss was our lucky winner with his submission of his live music lovin' local, the Laurelthirst Public House (2958 NE GlisanSt.), and we were thrilled to jam ourselves into Portland's Grand Ole Opry on a lively Monday night before digging into the somewhat surprising history and unique experie...
30 — Holman's Bar & Grill
October 31, 2023 10:00 - 59 minutes - 55 MBEpisode No. 30(!!) finds the HBTG boys enjoying their Halloween Spooktacular happily drinking among the undead at Holman's Bar & Grill (15 SE 28th Ave) -- no, not the youthful clientele, but the bar itself! Established in...ehhh, let's just call it pre-WWII...Holman's appeared to be ALL dead when it locked its doors during the sweeping pandemic closures of 2020. However, thanks to the local legends of historic bar reanimation, Warren Boothby and Marcus Archambeault, it proved to only be MO...
29 — A & L Sports Pub
October 11, 2023 12:51 - 55 minutes - 51.3 MBFall is officially upon us. Which, for the HBTG boys, means sports, sports, SPORTS! Once upon a time, the venerable Claudia’s on SE Hawthorne would’ve been atop the list of beloved old local places to grab a cold one and watch the game, but with its October closure after 75 years of service, it was time to evaluate one of its worthy successors. This is how we found ourselves parachuting into NE Portland‘s North Tabor neighborhood on a Monday Night Football night to experience the underra...
28 — Yamhill Pub
September 05, 2023 11:30 - 56 minutes - 52.1 MBThe Yamhill Pub is a Fox News producer's wet dream. It's the grimy, thrashed, chaotic, debauched, unrepentant, undeveloped, iconically menacing "lowest down diviest dive in Portland"...and we couldn't be more proud. Established in 1933 or 1939 in a century-old downtown building, the Yamhill Pub supernaturally resists all attempts to categorize it or neatly explain it. Its history is unknowable, yet infused throughout the sneaky warmth and undeniable character of the place. It is, in fact, a ...
28 - Yamhill Pub
September 05, 2023 11:30 - 56 minutes - 52.1 MBThe Yamhill Pub is a Fox News producer's wet dream. It's the grimy, thrashed, chaotic, debauched, unrepentant, undeveloped, iconically menacing "lowest down diviest dive in Portland"...and we couldn't be more proud. Established in 1933 or 1939 in a century-old downtown building, the Yamhill Pub supernaturally resists all attempts to categorize it or neatly explain it. Its history is unknowable, yet infused throughout the sneaky warmth and undeniable character of the place. It is, in fact, a ...
27 — Driftwood Room
July 28, 2023 12:00 - 53 minutes - 49.6 MBDowntown Portland’s Driftwood Room has been shaking up craft cocktails and intimate, dimly lit hotel bar connections since opening in what was then Hotel Mallory (and today Hotel DeLuxe) in 1954. Once a pioneer of the city’s mixology scene, today it remains a beloved, luxurious, unctuous, and, as we can now attest, potent purveyor of spirits. Yes, we had an AWESOME time at Driftwood Room…and then proceeded to continue having an even awesomer time with overflowing glasses of Canadian Club a...
HBTG: Shots in the Dark -- Anthony Bourdain (5 years later)
June 30, 2023 12:00 - 51 minutes - 47.2 MBAnthony Bourdain was our generation's greatest explorer of places near and far. Five years ago, he chose to leave well before his family, friends, and fans around the world were prepared to say goodbye. His legacy is baked into our effort to celebrate the venerable bars (and the communities that love them) of Portland and beyond, as well as how we engage with the world around us on a daily basis. We took time to pour a couple of drinks and reflect on how his impact continues to resonate wi...
26 — McMenamins Barley Mill Pub
May 30, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 63.6 MBWith 56 locations throughout Oregon and Washington and annual revenue in the range of $200M annually, we're willing to bet, if you're listening to this podcast, you've been to a freaking McMenamins! You know the vibe, you know the art, you know the history, and you know the consistent, if perhaps overly scrutinized, food, beer, and service. Well, 40 years ago, nobody knew much of anything about Mike and Brian McMenamin's fist bar together, the Barley Mill Pub (1629 SE Hawthorne, Portland)....
25 — Slim's Restaurant & Lounge
May 01, 2023 12:00 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MBIn the course of producing this episode, our 25th HBTG bar night out, there were three things we became (fairly) certain about: 1. That Slim's Restaurant & Lounge (8635 N Lombard St.) offers one of the best, most authentic old bar experiences you'll find in Portland. 2. That Slim's is also about 24 years younger than it has long believed. 3. That, in the grand of things, we don't really gives a shit (see certainty No. 1). In the greatest old bar neighborhood in the city (St. John's, form...
24 — The Stockpot Broiler (ft. Andy Mason)
March 23, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 92.6 MBBelonging. Believe it or not, it's what we're all ultimately looking for when we walk into a bar as a patron or, even, an employee. We all just want to be seen and known...and the drinks taste so f--king good. The Stockpot Broiler Lounge & Restaurant (8200 SW Scholls Ferry Rd, Beaverton, OR) has been serving up belonging for nearly 50 years at a former farm turned golf course in the Portland-Tigard-Beaverton borderlands to a bevy of devoted regulars (like us) and its long-tenured staff who ...
HBTG: Shots in the Dark (Friends of Bill)
January 23, 2023 12:30 - 54 minutes - 50.6 MBStill riding the high from their Season 2 premiere at Bill's Steakhouse... *checks calendar*... EIGHT GD weeks ago (!?!?), the boys welcomed back longtime friend of the podcast and veteran Portland bar aficionado Bill Clifford in-studio to test drive a new HBTG interview segment, and reflect fondly on his most formative/traumatizing bar moments, the shuttered local joint he misses most, and the only way to get a proper dry Manhattan with a twist. Along the way, they blew the lid off of the...
23 — Bill's Steak House
December 05, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 63.5 MBFilled with gratitude, gravy, and goodwill, the HBTG boys emerged from their hiatus refreshed and ready to kick off season TWO of the podcast at the place it all inexplicably began nearly 5 years earlier -- Bill's Steak House (10227 NE Sandy Blvd) in Portland's Parkrose neighborhood. This time, instead of near-crippling depression and doubt, the boys found an earnest, scrappy regulars bar that continues to roll with the punches thrown its way decade by decade, night by night. Founded in 1940...
22 — The Leaky Roof Gastropub & Goose Hollow Inn, Part 2
February 21, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBThe second half of our epic Phase One finale concludes at the only place it possibly could -- the iconic Bud Clark's legendary Goose Hollow Inn. It's a place that, despite its rigorous adherence to COVID precautions at the time of our visit, STILL reminds us of all that was once good about bar-going in Portland, and could be again. Bud, who died on Feb. 1, 2022 after 90 incredibly well-lived years, understood that community building was the essence of bar culture. He designed his taverns to ...
22 — The Leaky Roof Gastropub & Goose Hollow Inn, Part 1
February 14, 2022 14:00 - 42 minutes - 39 MBOn Feb. 7, 2018, guided by a book (brilliantly) written by a former alcoholic and newspaper man more than two decades earlier, two drinking buddies walked through the door of Bill's Steak House & Lounge on a sleepy Wednesday night, officially launching a creative, celebratory journey into the heart of Portland's classic bar culture. Exactly four years, one pandemic, and 42 bars later, they have arrived at the end...of this chapter anyway. Grab your favorite drink and come along with us as we ...
21 — Dockside Saloon & Sellwood Inn/Saloon
January 31, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour - 80.6 MBIt was just over 28 years ago to the day this episode was released -- Jan. 30, 1994...Super Bowl Sunday -- that the venerable Dockside Saloon in rapidly gentrifying industrial NW Portland was thrust into the national spotlight by that infamous trio of Eckardt, Harding, and...Gillooly. Of course you know the basic knee-whacking plot of that most surreal sports scandal of the '90s, but we set out to see how the salty workingperson's bar at the core of Tonya Harding's fall from grace was doing ...
20 — Horse Brass Pub
December 24, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 82.5 MBIt's a marshmallow world in the winter and we're channeling our inner Deano and Frank to bring you a very merry HBTG Christmas episode! This month, we pulled up a couple of stools and drank until we encountered the ghosts of Portland bars past, present, and future at the most Dickensian joint left on our list, the legendary British-Oregonian Horse Brass Pub (17:16). In the bygone era of bigger than life Portland publicans, few stood taller, supported better, and smoked 'em deeper than form...
19 — Stanich's & Sinnott's Lil' Cooperstown
November 26, 2021 18:26 - 1 hour - 69.9 MBWe're baaaack! Yep, damn near 5 months after our last episode dropped, we've decided to grace our loyal and extremely patient listeners with another one — and not just any episode, but our official return to actual bar reviews! Way back on July 28 we made a midday stop at Portland's most infamous, mercurial, and legendary burger bar, Stanich's (09:12), followed by an abbreviated nightcap at mysterious Sinnott's Lil' Cooperstown (58:08) six days later. A series of mini-calamities later, we re...
Ep. 19 — Stanich's & Sinnott's Lil' Cooperstown
November 26, 2021 18:26 - 1 hour - 69.9 MBWe're baaaack! Yep, damn near 5 months after our last episode dropped, we've decided to grace our loyal and extremely patient listeners with another one — and not just any episode, but our official return to actual bar reviews! Way back on July 28 we made a midday stop at Portland's most infamous, mercurial, and legendary burger bar, Stanich's (09:12), followed by an abbreviated nightcap at mysterious Sinnott's Lil' Cooperstown (58:08) six days later. A series of mini-calamities later, we re...
HBTG: Shots in the Dark (Bourdain Day & BARS ARE OPEN!)
July 03, 2021 19:18 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBWith most COVID-19 restrictions lifted and vaccines coursing through our bodies, we are effectively back in action! We cross through the crumbling COVID Berlin Wall looking for freedom! Do we find it by venturing out to Multnomah Village's Renner's — our last regularly scheduled HBTG stop? Give us a listen to find out. PLUS, we celebrate Bourdain Day by traveling to undiscovered Aloha, Ore. Say hello AND goodbye to another episode of HBTG: Shots in the Dark!
Best HBTG Nights Out
June 11, 2021 15:33 - 1 hour - 61.9 MBFully vaccinated and with this buzzkill of a pandemic in its waning days, the boys got out from behind their video screens to raise their drinks in person. Now, on the verge of returning to our regular programming, what better time to FINALLY release our six-month-old HBTG Best Nights Out segment (19:35). Not the best bars necessarily, but the best, most magical drinking nights we've had so far during this project. Enjoy one of our last sensible pours of HBTG: Shots in the Dark!
Cocktail (1988), Part 2
May 10, 2021 23:30 - 1 hour - 54.2 MB“Everything ends badly otherwise it wouldn't end.” And now for the B-side of our impassioned two-part deep dive commentary into 1988’s venerable ode to flair bartending, toxic masculinity, and unrepentant greed — Cocktail! In this episode, we join Tom Cruise in Jamaica en route to the half-assed ending that secures this movie's place as one of the best worst pictures ever made. Be sure to listen to Part 1 of this epic pod. We hope you liked or hated these episodes as much as you did the act...
Cocktail (1988), Part 1
May 04, 2021 14:38 - 1 hour - 55.2 MB“When they drink, they reign.” As promised, the boys dived DEEP into 1988’s venerable ode to flair bartending, toxic masculinity, and unrepentant greed -- Cocktail! Get ready for a giddy scene-by-scene commentary tour of the Worst Picture Razzie-winning film, starring Tom Cruise. SO crack an egg into your Red Eye, push your way to the front of the bar, and get ready to enjoy two obnoxious assholes’ self-indulgent theatrics...and we’ll also talk a little about the two bartenders in Cocktail ...
HBTG: Shots in the Dark (Patrick F. Smith & Through My Portland Lens)
April 19, 2021 21:31 - 35 minutes - 24.4 MBThe boys checked in on another Friday night to recap Nate's first pandemic vacation, the experience of bar-going in this current era of guarded optimism, and the "Sunday Morning Coming Down" vintage photography of Patrick F. Smith. Through My Portland Lens Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1760291797474818/ Oregon Live's Article about Patrick F. Smith: https://bit.ly/3x1Z5no
HBTG: Shots in the Dark (I Miss My Bar... Dot Com!)
March 30, 2021 18:27 - 24 minutes - 16.6 MBWe are back with a two-finger pour of bar musings and longing. This week, we discuss the sonic glory that is IMissMyBar.com from our amigos at the bar Maverick in Monterrey, Mexico. We loved it all so much, we even mixed in a little din of our own to help you forget about this sterile Zoom reality. Imagine yourself perched on a stool next to us, pondering bar magic and sipping your troubles away.
HBTG: Shots in the Dark (St. Patrick's Day Special!)
March 18, 2021 06:25 - 42 minutes - 33.7 MBA St. Patrick's Day episode released ON St. Patrick's Day?! Pinch me, I'm dreaming! In a very special Shots In The Dark, Alfredo and Nathan regale us with their tales of 2021 St. Paddy's Day in Portland. Then reminisce about past holidays, Darby O'Gill, little boy parties, bagpipes, Irish coffees, movie reviews, and MORE. It's just like hanging out with them in the bar, but so much better!
HBTG: Shots in the Dark (Back to Bars, Reel 'm Inn, MuuMuu's)
March 05, 2021 23:29 - 13 minutes - 10.7 MBIt's another sensible pour of Portland, Oregon’s bar news and musings. This week, Nate & Alfredo discuss getting back to the bars after Washington County drops to a "Moderate Risk." What's been great? What's been scary-ass shit? When will they go back!? Plus HBTG welcomes back an unofficial dive classic as SE's Reel 'm Inn reopens for business.
Shots In The Dark (2/23/21)
February 23, 2021 18:01 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MBIntroducing, HBTG’s Shots in the Dark — a spontaneous, quickly downable, possibly ill-advised version of our beloved pre-pandemic deep dives! A solid 15 to 30 minutes of that one-of-a-kind content you never knew you were missing! We got together for the first one on Feb. 21, 2021, exactly one year to the day that we last visited a bar for an official HBTG episode. Plenty has changed since, but not our love of all things trivial and random about drinkin’ and thinkin’ old bars. Cheers!
Top 5 HBTG Bars (So Far)
August 01, 2020 00:18 - 1 hour - 60.2 MBIn this episode, we FINALLY answer our most commonly asked question — “What’s your favorite old bar in Portland?” — revealing dueling top-5 lists that settle once and for all which is the city’s best. So grab a stiff drink and hit play to find out where the likes of Cheerful Tortoise [15:45], Corner Saloon [22:30], The Alibi [29:15], Renner’s [46:07], Lutz Tavern [39:26], Jake’s Famous Crawfish [52:40], Nob Hill Bar & Grill [1:01:40] and more rank in our blurry memories!
COVID Update: Ready Phase 1
June 06, 2020 00:09 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBOn May 30, 2020, we jumped in another Zoom meeting to check in with all of Paul Pintarich’s official “History by the Glass” bars (the ones that are still open anyway) at the dawn of Reopening Oregon Phase 1. We also checked in with ourselves to see what condition our condition was in as we mulled, yes, a return to drinking IN PUBLIC.
18a — COVID-19 & Renner's Grill
April 29, 2020 23:36 - 1 hour - 74.9 MBOn Feb. 21, 2020, we made a triumphant return to newly-reopened Renner’s Grill. On Mar. 16, COVID-19 social distancing efforts forced every bar to close. We discussed it all over several rounds in our Steinhaus/Buddy’s Lounge glassware, in front of our ubiquitous, soul-sucking Zoom cameras in this very special, history in the making episode of HBTG...dedicated to every single person who has brought us joy one glass at a time in bars throughout Portland and beyond. We can’t wait to see you aga...
17 — Kelly's Olympian & Nob Hill Bar & Grill
February 24, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 44.9 MBBuoyed by a lifestyle-enhancing new sponsor, we embarked on our first HBTG visits of 2020. First, a visit to Portland’s third-oldest bar — a former downtown dive “men’s resort” turned vintage motorcycle joint, Kelly’s Olympian (09:54). Next, we happily marooned ourselves on an island of “Old Portland” goodness amidst a sea of rampant redevelopment at NW 23rd's Nob Hill Bar & Grill (38:54) where Nate ascended into cheeseburger heaven and Alfredo re-discovered a bathroom just short of perfecti
16 — Jake's Famous Crawfish & Huber's
January 29, 2020 21:25 - 1 hour - 59.2 MBDo you like your old Portland bars OLD? Well, they don’t get older than this. Join us for a Very Special Episode of History By the Glass. We don our gay apparel to slurp cocktails at Jake’s Famous Crawfish (14:51), established 1892. Then we get even "history-ier" as we carve out time to talk turkey bars over at Huber’s (48:58), established 1879. Very old, indeed!
15 — Helvetia Tavern & Cider Mill
December 27, 2019 23:12 - 1 hour - 48.7 MBA very special first “podiversary." First, we traveled deep into the western farmlands of Washington County, stepping out of the cold afternoon wind and into the sleepy, but warm Helvetia Tavern (08:54) for the best burger and beer a personal check can buy. Several (possibly ill-advised) pit stops later, we landed at Cider Mill (37:44) where we rediscovered our love for this lively SW Portland survivor over chicken hearts and a few more cold ones. Enjoy the latest deep-fried History by the Gl...
15 — Helvetia Tavern & Cider Mill
December 27, 2019 23:12 - 1 hour - 48.7 MBOn a blustery Thanksgiving eve, Nov. 27, 2019, we expressed our gratitude for our first “podiversary” and two venerable bars anchored by iconic menu items. It was a marathon exploration/recording session that began at 3 p.m. and ended past midnight, with — as this episode may reveal — no shortage of libations in between. First, we traveled deep into the western farmlands of Washington County, stepping out of the cold afternoon wind and into the sleepy, but warm Helvetia Tavern (08:54) for th...
14 — Mock Crest Tavern & The Twilight Room
November 27, 2019 18:19 - 1 hour - 49.5 MBWe channeled our inner Thornton Melon and went Back to School, cruising by the University of Portland to pick up friend and alum Shauna Weaver. We made our debuts at the Mock(s) Crest Tavern (13:05) where we discussed the bar’s stubby stools, vintage glassware, and mayonnaise forward menu. Then, it was off to every Pilot’s paradise, The Twilight Room (45:22), where we perched on slightly stubbier stools, staged a Hamm’s walkout, and soaked in the obnoxious silence of trivia night.
13 — Sandy Hut & The Alibi
September 20, 2019 20:31 - 1 hour - 70.7 MBWhat makes a “dive”? Alfredo and Nate dig deep into Portland’s drinking history to find out. The boys are back to celebrate Alfredo’s birthday with a trip to 1923’s The Sandy Hut (6:12), joined by special-guest podcast fans Rochelle and Eric. After a fond salute to old people, a burger breakdown, trip to the men's room, and the marquee deep dive on dives (36:32), a "sponsored" Lyft rides us north to the tropical tranquility and raucous rocking of The Alibi (1:00:25).
12 — Ponderosa Lounge & Nite Hawk Cafe and Lounge
May 14, 2019 03:21 - 1 hour - 47.3 MBBreaker, breaker! The eagle and the cottonmouth are back! We return to the field of Portland’s historic bars and saloons by packing up the convoy and rolling north up the big road. First, we belly up at the over-the-top pickle park and honky-tonk, the Ponderosa Lounge at Jubitz Truck Stop (9:10). Then we make a pit stop at the venerable Nite Hawk Cafe and Lounge (45:47). Plus which one of us will rasp our way through this post-illness podcast?! Tune in and find out on this week’s History by t...
Our 1st Anniversary, Part 4 — Lighthouse, Skyline Tavern, Lariat Lounge, & Rumpus Room
April 25, 2019 18:19 - 1 hour - 76 MBAfter discovering the wooded interior paradise of the Lighthouse (6:34) we journeyed through the Northwest hills to the wooded exterior paradise of Skyline Tavern (24:20). Then we loaded up the HBTG truckster and schlepped ourselves 200 blocks to Southeast Portland’s Lariat Lounge (40:28) with an impromptu trip to Rumpus Room (1:02:32).
Our 1st Anniversary, Part 3 — Anthony Bourdain Passing, Stein Haus Closing, Nick's Famous Coney Island and Claudia's
April 08, 2019 20:49 - 1 hour - 70.7 MBMore of a somber episode of History by the Glass. We have no reservations reflecting on the passing of Anthony Bourdain (5:05) and what he meant to this endeavor (13:00). Mournful, we press on to parts unknown as we memorialize SE 82nd’s Stein Haus (26:15) which we also lost this year. Plus, moments of "Portland Confidential" history during a drunk’s tour of Hawthorne sports bars Nick’s Famous Coney Island (52:38) and Claudia’s (1:16:52). All that, plus bathrooms, burgers and more!
Our 1st Anniversary, Part 2 — Wanker’s Corner Saloon, Corner Saloon, Crackerjack’s Pub & Eatery and Joe’s Cellar
March 05, 2019 10:35 - 1 hour - 59.6 MBThis week, we continue our anniversary celebration by featuring Wanker’s Corner Saloon (10:56), that other Corner Saloon (29:53), Crackerjack’s Pub & Eatery (59:37) and Joe’s Cellar (01:10:10). We also reminisce about all those Portland breweries that recently closed (04:32). All that, plus bathrooms, burgers and more!
Our 1st Anniversary, Part 1 — Bill's Steakhouse, White Eagle, Lutz Tavern, Kay's Bar & Yukon Tavern
February 09, 2019 21:56 - 1 hour - 90.2 MBIt's been... ONE YEAR since we started soaking in Portland's past bars and saloons. Travel back with us as we get nostalgic about our nostalgia (9:25). We recap Episodes I & II, reviewing Bill's Steakhouse (26:02), The White Eagle (40:12), Lutz Tavern (53:35), Kay's Bar (1:18:54) and Yukon Tavern (1:29:49). Bathrooms, burgers and more in this jam-packed four-part anniversary special! With special guest Bill Clifford (no relation).