Offbeat Oregon History podcast
1,079 episodes - English - Latest episode: 19 days ago - ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsA daily (5-day-a-week) podcast feed of true Oregon stories -- of heroes and rascals, of shipwrecks and lost gold. Stories of shanghaied sailors a1512nd Skid Road bordellos and pirates and robbers and unsolved mysteries. An exploding whale, a couple 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. From the archives of the Offbeat Oregon History syndicated newspaper column. Source citations are included with the text version on the Web site at https://offbeatoregon.com.
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Laws in old Oregon were rough, not always ready
April 26, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes - 8.98 MB“From 1861 to 1876, every man committed to the Oregon State Penitentiary for ‘life’ either escaped or was pardoned,” writes historian and newspaper columnist Erik Bromberg, quoting from the U.S. Federal Writers Project’s “Oregon Oddities” article of 1939-1941. “Some who escaped were recaptured and then pardoned.” (Oregon Territory, 1850s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1910c.frontier-justice-jailhouses.html)
Deadly weather usually catches Oregon by surprise
April 25, 2024 14:00 - 10 minutes - 9.43 MBCyclones, tornadoes, flash floods, earthquakes and volcanoes — the Beaver State is not immune to any of these things, but they're rare enough that no one is expecting them when they appear. (Statewide) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1210b-deadly-weather-usually-catches-oregon-by-surprise.html)
The short, tragic story of P-town’s municipal whale
April 24, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes - 8.93 MB“Ethelbert” the orca somehow ended up stranded miles from the ocean in the Columbia Slough, much to the delight of most Portland residents. But it wasn't long before the city's would-be Nimrods came out and spoiled everything. (Columbia Slough, Multnomah County; 1930s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1411a.311.ethelbert-portlands-whale.html)
Bootlegger ‘lobster trap’ a huge but costly success
April 23, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes - 8.98 MBNo one in Tillamook County even suspected the “Lee Film Company” was a front for government Prohibition enforcement until the trap was sprung ... but it has to have been the most expensive law enforcement operation in the county's history. (Tillamook County; 1920s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1907d.lobster-trap-for-bootleggers-557.html)
The Portland mining engineer who invented fracking (WPA oral-history interview with William Hampton)
April 22, 2024 14:00 - 13 minutes - 12.3 MBWPA writer Walker Winslow's oral history interview with William Huntley Hampton, a son of Brigham Young although not a Mormon, who was probably Oregon's second most famous mining engineer around the turn of the Twentieth Century (behind Herbert Hoover). He invented the process of hydraulic fracking, worked for the Bureau of Mines for years, and was one of the preeminent authorities on gold mining. (For the transcript, see https://www.loc.gov/item/wpalh001957/)
Brothel owner Carrie Carrie’s sidekicks proved bad at corpse disposal (Part 2 of 2)
April 19, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes - 8.96 MBOn the morning of Nov. 25, 1881, two men were walking to work along the North End waterfront when they saw something incongruous in the river, just off the foot of Everett Street ... a pair of feet, sticking straight up into the air. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1990s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1910a.carrie-bradley-2of2.html)
Bordello madam Carrie Bradley was a real-life Brigid O’Shaughnessy (Part 1 of 2 parts)
April 18, 2024 14:00 - 10 minutes - 9.9 MBThe Femme Fatale, like most really satisfying tropes in fiction, is based on real life. And arguably, the closest Oregon has ever come to a real-life femme fatale worthy of Hammett’s pen was in early 1880s Portland, in what today is known as the Tenderloin — in the person of a gorgeous, hard-eyed 28-year-old brunette who called herself Carrie Bradley. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1882) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1909e.carrie-bradley-femme-fatale-1of2-567.html)
Scholarly Albany flyer was the real father of Oregon aviation
April 17, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes - 8.4 MBIn a race with Portland neophile Henry Wemme to be the first owner of an airplane in Oregon, Cornell-educated John Burkhart was two weeks too late; but unlike Wemme, he designed, built and flew his own machine. (Albany, Linn County; 1910s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1410d.310.burkhart-aviation-pioneer.html)
Was Bridge of the Gods real? Almost certainly yes
April 16, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes - 8.5 MBThe geographical evidence isn't there; but every nearby Indian community has legends about the river tunneling underground for miles, and roughly similar accounts of the tunnel's collapse. What are the odds? (Near The Dalles, Wasco County; circa 1450 A.D.) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1907c.bridge-of-the-gods-legend-and-truth.html)
The maddest man in old Portland (WPA oral-history interview)
April 15, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes - 11.7 MBYoung Charley Imus was the son of the local undertaker, and he and a school friend were tasked with watching over a corpse while an Irish wake was going on, as the wind howled in the shingles on a stormy, spooky night. Imagine the boys' consternation when the 'corpse' ... woke up. Apparently the wake worked! (Interview conducted on Feb. 24, 1939. For the source documents, see https://www.loc.gov/item/wpalh001939/)
Cressman was Oregon’s real-life Indiana Jones
April 12, 2024 14:00 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MBIN THE SUMMER of 1981 a little action-adventure movie titled Raiders of the Lost Ark came out, and fans have been speculating ever since on who the character of Indiana Jones might be based on. The most popular speculation — Vanity Fair magazine goes so far as to opine that he is “almost certainly” the basis for Jones — is Roy Chapman Andrews, a globe-trotting paleontologist and former director of the American Museum of Natural History. Well, the fact is that Jones probably wasn’t based on ...
A long-gone gold town’s short but colorful past
April 11, 2024 14:00 - 10 minutes - 9.33 MBThis was the town where the Eastern Oregon Gold Rush of '61 got started, and it was a wild and lawless place; town ordinances did prohibit stabbing or shooting people “in public places,” but otherwise the town was mostly wide open. (Auburn, Baker County; 1860s, 1880s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1210a-auburn-wildest-mining-town-vanished.html)
Ship owner’s offer of bonus led directly to shipwreck
April 10, 2024 14:00 - 7 minutes - 7.26 MBOn the bright side, though, the owner of the Desdemona did get to go down in history — or, rather, geography — after the deadly sandbar that took his ship was dubbed Desdemona Sands. (Columbia River Bar, Clatsop County; 1850s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1410c.309.desdemona-shipwreck.html)
How an old banana peel changed Oregon history
April 09, 2024 14:00 - 10 minutes - 9.9 MBUp-and-coming Democrat Oswald West had been sent to Portland on a last-ditch attempt to talk Harry Lane into running for governor. But Lane said no; so West decided to give it a go himself. (Salem, Marion County; 1910) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1907b.os-west-banana-peel.html)
Recollections of an 1880s Astoria salmon fisherman (WPA oral-history interview)
April 08, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes - 9.1 MBFans of shanghaiing-era waterfront culture will not want to miss this WPA oral history, collected in 1938. Retired fisherman Charles deLashmutt recalls stories of gillnet salmon fishermen 'corking' each other, brawling in bars, and buying hooch from the 'whiskey scows' that anchored 30 feet off the Washington shore and served cheap booze at 'paddle-up windows' for thirsty customers. Mr. DeLashmutt was a piano player in a dance band, so he saw plenty of barroom activity. This one, collected by...
Battleship USS Oregon was lost in Pearl Harbor attack — sort of
April 05, 2024 14:00 - 8 minutes - 8.07 MBTIME NEVER WAS on the U.S.S. Oregon’s side. She was launched in 1896, in the middle of a remarkable period of torrid innovation and development in the history of warships, a time when ship designs were only good for about ten years before something better came along. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1940s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1910b.battleship-oregon.html)
P.R. wizard Gilbert Gable managed Jefferson ‘secession’ like a movie (Part 2 of 2)
April 04, 2024 14:00 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MB“Patriotic Jeffersonians intend to secede each Thursday until further notice,” the rebels said, and played their parts in the grand production to a nationwide audience as newsreel cameras rolled and reporters scribbled in notepads. (Port Orford, Curry County; 1940s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1410b.308.state-o-jefferson-part2.html)
Jefferson ‘secession’ of ’41 a brilliant publicity stunt (Part 1 of 2)
April 03, 2024 16:00 - 9 minutes - 8.85 MBBoisterous and colorful man P.R. man Gilbert Gable, mayor of Port Orford, drew on the frustrations of the West Coast's remotest counties in an effort to get the state to invest in decent highways. (Part 1 of 2 parts on the 1941 Jefferson 'secession') (Port Orford, Curry County; 1940s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1410a.307.state-o-jefferson-part1.html)
Surge of rebel refugees changed Oregon politics
April 03, 2024 15:00 - 13 minutes - 12.8 MBAfter the Civil War, refugees from the devastated South flooded west, seeking a fresh start ... and for a few years, Oregon looked like Dixie on the Left Coast. They even went so far as to try to de-ratify the Fourteenth Amendment. (Salem, Marion County; 1860s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1907a.ex-rebels-changed-oregon-politics-554.html)
Oregon City was home of first electric power grid
April 03, 2024 14:00 - 10 minutes - 9.7 MBEntrepreneurs figured out how to send power long distances for the first time in history; later, after a flood wiped out power station, they pioneered alternating-current transmission. (Oregon City, Clackamas County; 1880s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1201a-oregon-city-home-of-worlds-first-power-grid.html)
Express clerk’s silence foiled Eugene train robber
April 02, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes - 8.73 MB(NOTE: For organizational reasons, this column is being published earlier than usual. You may already have heard this one.) The masked outlaw planned the job out carefully, and thought he was ready for anything. But he met his match in the cool-handed express man, and had to leave almost empty-handed. (Saginaw, Lane County; 1900s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1501a.saginaw-train-robbery.320.html)
Recollections of an Oswego native from the days of the Oregon Iron Company (WPA oral-history interview)
April 01, 2024 14:00 - 7 minutes - 7.11 MBWPA Writer Sara B. Wrenn one day walked all the way from downtown Portland to the town of Oswego to interview a pioneer woman ... who was not at home. (Ironic, isn't it, that this article should have popped up on April Fools' Day?) Hoping to salvage something from the long walk, Ms. Wrenn asked around, and ended up interviewing Margaret Weightman, a 54-year-old Oswego native, about her pioneer parents. (Full transcripts are at the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/wpalh001966/)
Murderer avoided gallows by faking a 2-year coma
March 29, 2024 14:00 - 8 minutes - 7.55 MBCharles Fiester lay there on his cot, eyes open, staring at nothing, pretending to be catatonic, for 515 days ... knowing that when his ruse was discovered, he'd be hanged. (Kerby, Josephine County; 1890s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1803a.fiester-murderer-faked-insanity-515-days-485.html)
Vaudeville Susie’s Riot; or, Oregon’s Helen of Troy
March 28, 2024 14:00 - 10 minutes - 9.32 MBThe Rebel sympathizers resented the Union soldiers taking all the seats when Vaudeville star Susie Robinson of Corvallis took the stage. The soldiers wouldn't back down. Then somebody pulled a pistol ... and the battle was on. (Corvallis, Benton County; 1860s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1603d.vaudeville-susie-riot.384.html)
Union squabbles were part of life on the waterfront
March 27, 2024 14:00 - 8 minutes - 8 MBEvery few years, in the early 1900s, burly and hard-fisted dock workers got into a battle of wills with the autocratic sea-captains who ran the shipping companies. Most of the time, the dock workers got the worst of it. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1900s, 1910s, 1920s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1303e-union-squabbles-on-portland-waterfront.html)
Malheur County rancher saves pioneer Oregon aviator’s life
March 26, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes - 8.43 MBBarnstormer Ted Barber was down to his last half-cup of gasoline when Ralph Grove rescued him by lighting up a field with the headlights of his car; Ted's old Waco 9 biplane lived to fly the next day, and so did he. (Near Andrews, Malheur County; 1930s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1103c-harney-county-rancher-saves-oregon-pioneer-aviators-life.html)
Recollections of an old Oregon railroad telegrapher and union lawyer, Part 2 of 2 (WPA oral-history interview)
March 25, 2024 14:00 - 21 minutes - 19.9 MBOn Nov. 28, 1938, Federal Writers Project worker Andrew Sherbert sat down with a stocky, animated 77-year-old attorney named George Estes to talk about Mr. Estes' recollections of working in the 1800s, first as a telegraph operator and later as an attorney for the Telegrapher's Union at Southern Pacific. (For text and pictures, see https://www.loc.gov/item/wpalh001955/)
Decade-long dam dispute resolved with dynamite (Episode for Friday, March 22)
March 15, 2024 14:40 - 12 minutes - 11.8 MBIN THE SMALL hours of the morning of Aug. 16, 1906, a powerful explosion jolted residents awake near the little town of Willamette, which today is a neighborhood of West Linn. It came from the direction of the nearby Tualatin River. The cause was soon discovered. When the first rays of the morning sun fell on the Oregon Iron and Steel Co.’s diversion dam, located a little over three miles from the river’s mouth, a 20-foot-wide hole had been blasted in its center. The river water was still gu...
Did monk from China “discover” Oregon 1,600 years ago? (Episode for Thursday, March 21)
March 15, 2024 14:30 - 7 minutes - 7.17 MBLegend of a monk's journey to a land called “Fusang” dates back to 499 A.D.; is it possible that Fusang was Oregon? Or was the whole thing a complete fabrication? (Oregon Coast, 400s; yeah, that's right, literally 1,500 years ago.) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1103b-was-buddhist-monk-first-to-discover-oregon.html)
Did monk from China “discover” Oregon 1,600 years ago?
March 15, 2024 14:30 - 7 minutes - 7.17 MBLegend of a monk's journey to a land called “Fusang” dates back to 499 A.D.; is it possible that Fusang was Oregon? Or was the whole thing a complete fabrication? (Oregon Coast, 400s; yeah, that's right, literally 1,500 years ago.) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1103b-was-buddhist-monk-first-to-discover-oregon.html)
Bridge-building scandal aroused Portlanders’ fury (Episode for Wed, March 20)
March 15, 2024 14:20 - 8 minutes - 7.77 MBCrafty county commissioners tried to rig the bidding so their favorite bid, padded to the tune of half a million 1924 dollars, would win —but they didn't move quite fast enough. Three months later, they'd all been thrown out of office. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1920s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1303d-bridge-scandal-aroused-fury-of-1920s-portland.html)
Tiny home-built schooner saved Tillamook settlers (Episode for Tue, March 19)
March 15, 2024 14:10 - 7 minutes - 6.6 MBAfter the only skipper willing to brave their fearsome river bar died, the only way to get wheat and cheese to market was to build their own trading ship — which they did. (Tillamook County; 1850s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1102d-tillamook-tiny-schooner.html)
Recollections of an old Oregon railroad telegrapher and union lawyer, Part 1 of 2 (WPA oral-history interview; episode for Mon, March 18)
March 15, 2024 14:00 - 22 minutes - 20.2 MBOn Nov. 28, 1938, Federal Writers Project worker Andrew Sherbert sat down with a stocky, animated 77-year-old attorney named George Estes to talk about Mr. Estes' recollections of working in the 1800s, first as a telegraph operator and later as an attorney for the Telegrapher's Union at Southern Pacific. (For text and pictures, see https://www.loc.gov/item/wpalh001955/)
Was legendary city of Quivira on Oregon Coast? (Episode for Fri, March 15)
March 11, 2024 14:50 - 9 minutes - 8.71 MBNative Americans told Coronado there was a fabulous gold-and-turquoise city called Quivira just to the east -- or was it the north? All he found were Indian villages. But, was there a real city behind the legend? More specifically, was that city near Port Orford? (Port Orford, Curry County; 1540s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1802d.legendary-city-of-quivira-on-oregon-coast-484.html)
Chinese smuggler saved woman and her baby, then vanished (episode for Thu, March 14)
March 11, 2024 14:40 - 7 minutes - 7.3 MBIn Gold Rush-era Oregon, the most skilled miners were probably the Chinese — but they were in constant danger. To avoid being robbed, they entrusted their gold to professional couriers who masqueraded as penniless vagabonds. This is a story from the life of one of them, a man we know only as 'Cheng.' (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1103a-secret-chinese-courier-saved-woman-and-baby-then-vanished.html)
Massive passenger liner won race with fiery death(episode for Wed, March 13)
March 11, 2024 14:30 - 8 minutes - 8.15 MBCalm seas, a hard-working crew and a cool-headed skipper helped the steamship Congress and everyone on board survive a terrifying night after a fire broke out in the cargo hold and spread throughout the ship. (Coos Bay, Coos County; 1910s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1303c-steamer-congress-won-race-against-fiery-death.html)
Rabies epidemic was like a war in Eastern Oregon (episode for Tue, March 12)
March 11, 2024 14:20 - 8 minutes - 7.7 MBState health officials scoffed at the idea of hydrophobia in Oregon — until people started dying. It was the start of a decade of attacks by mad coyotes, when folks carried shotguns everywhere and nature seemed to be in open revolt. (Central and Eastern Oregon; 1910s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1303b-rabies-epidemic-eastern-oregon-mad-coyotes.html)
Announcement: All This Week Episodes at Once, and Why
March 11, 2024 14:10 - 3 minutes - 2.84 MBI've run into a little trouble with my Internet hosting service. My Website has gotten too large for their taste and they want me to upgrade to a $120-a-month 'dedicated server' or 'virtual private server' account. Hey, I do this stuff for fun, I don't make money on it ... Anyway so I went shopping and found a good deal at a new shop, inmotionhosting.com. I'm very excited, but the process of migrating a 30-gigabyte website from one place to another means it's going to take me all week to get ...
Recollections of an old Oregon mining-law specialist (WPA oral-history interview)
March 11, 2024 14:00 - 17 minutes - 15.9 MBOn May 3, 1938, Federal Writers Project worker Andrew Sherbert sat down with a tall, urbane, professional 70-year-old mining-law specialist named J. Thorburn Ross to talk about Mr. Ross's recollections of working in old Portland for George Himes and later experience in the area of Sailors' Diggin's and Waldo. (For text and pictures, see https://www.loc.gov/item/wpalh001951/)
Innocent man’s sacrifice averted deadly ‘tong war’
March 08, 2024 14:00 - 8 minutes - 7.82 MBIt was obvious to nearly everyone that Chee Gong was innocent. But one of his tong brothers had murdered Lee Yik and disappeared, and blood had to answer for blood. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1880s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1802c.tong-war-in-portland-averted-with-hanging-483.html)
Circuit Preacher Tales III: Longshoreman’s Funeral
March 07, 2024 14:00 - 10 minutes - 9.2 MBThe Reverend preached the funeral service to an empty church, while the deceased's friends and colleagues fought in the parking lot over who got to ride in the taxicabs. But the hostilities were forgotten when they arrived at a roadhouse. (Tacoma, Washington Territory; 1880s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1603c.circuit-preachers-longshoreman-funeral.html)
Circuit Preacher Stories 2: Shanghaiing up a flock
March 06, 2024 14:00 - 10 minutes - 9.21 MBWhen trying to minister to the spiritual needs of a crowd of hard-sinning miners and sailors, it was sometimes necessary to resort to unorthodox tactics — tactics not often seen among men of the cloth in more civilized times. (Old Oregon Territory; 1840s, 1850s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1603b.circuit-preachers-shanghai-flock-382.html)
Circuit Preacher Stories 1: The Rev. Wells’ wild ride
March 05, 2024 14:00 - 10 minutes - 9.44 MBEagerly, the Reverend leaped into the waiting bathtub, positioned at the top of the stairs in the chilly foyer of the frontier hotel. And then, to his horror, he realized it was sliding toward the top of the staircase on a sheet of ice ... (Weston, Umatilla County; 1850s, 1860s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1603a.circuit-preachers-wells-wild-ride-381.html)
Recollections of an old Oregon hard-rock miner (WPA oral-history interview)
March 04, 2024 14:00 - 21 minutes - 19.5 MB"I was introduced to Hank Simms by the superintendent of the Home (for the Aged) and he took me to his room. At once Hank Simms asked, 'Well, young feller, what do you want — just some straight running off at the mouth or do you want me to go on something special? I am a long distance talker if you give me a chance, and I might take you for a long ride in the wrong direction.'" (For text and pictures, see https://www.loc.gov/item/wpalh001959/)
‘Tillamook Guerillas’ were ready for enemy invasion
March 01, 2024 14:00 - 8 minutes - 8.11 MBWhen the Oregon National Guard was called up, Oregonians felt vulnerable to Japanese invasion. So they loaded their rifles and possed up ready to give 'em hell! (Tillamook County; 1940s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1802b.tillamook-guerillas-ready-to-fight-off-invasion-482.html)
When dynamite truck blew up, it looked like nuclear war
February 29, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes - 8.53 MBA truck driver parked 13,000 pounds of explosives next to the hardware store downtown. That night the hardware store caught fire … and so did the dynamite, in the biggest human-caused disaster in Oregon history. (Roseburg, Douglas County; 1950s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1102c-roseburg-blast-looked-like-nuclear-war.html)
‘Home for Wayward Girls and Fallen Women’ a bust
February 28, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes - 8.39 MBWell-meaning church congregations banded together to offer 'wayward girls and fallen women' a place to get away from their profession — but it turned out most of them didn't particularly want to leave it; not yet, at least. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1890s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1303a-open-door-for-wayward-girls-and-fallen-women.html)
Portland lad grew up to be a founding father of USSR
February 27, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes - 8.81 MBPortland native Jack Reed was the only American buried in the Kremlin wall; his enthusiasm for the Bolsheviks was cooling toward the end, but after he died they gave him a state funeral and declared him a martyr to the revolution. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1900s, 1910s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1602d.john-reed-communism-380.html)
The Furrier's Story: Louis Schumacher, part 2 of 2 parts (WPA oral history interview)
February 26, 2024 14:00 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MBPart 2 of 2 parts: On Jan. 3, 1939, Federal Writers Project worker Andrew Sherbert sat down with a slim, quick-moving gray haired 70-year-old furrier/pelt buyer named Louis Schumacher to talk about Mr. Schumacher's recollections of coming to Portland from Baden, Germany, and establishing a business buying the pelts and furs that trappers and mountain-man types would bring him to sell after their travels in the Oregon wilderness. (For text and pictures, see https://www.loc.gov/item/wpalh001956/)
Massive DC-8 jumbo jet landed at tiny rural airport by mistake
February 23, 2024 14:00 - 8 minutes - 7.78 MBTroutdale Airfield is just 10 miles from Portland International — and built to serve Cessnas, not Boeings. But one dark night in 1962, a jumbo-jet pilot got a little confused .... (Troutdale, Multnomah County; 1960s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1802a.massive-jet-lands-at-tiny-country-airport-by-mistake-481.html)