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Oregon Once Put A City Bus On A Cable Up Mt Hood And Let People Ride It

If you’ve ever stood at the base of Mt. Hood and thought, there has to be an easier way to get up there, you’re not alone. In fact, back in the early 1950s, a group of Oregonians looked at that same mountain and came up with a solution so bold, so strange, and so completely over-the-top… it almost...

Oregon Coast Driver Takes Down Road Closure Barrier, Plunges Headfirst Into Highway Hole

As the old adage goes: play stupid games, win stupid prizes (and potentially a car fire). As reported by the Tillamook County Sheriff's Office, on January 21, 2024, at 8:22 am, Deputy Ben Berger, alongside Oregon State Trooper Jon King, Nestucca Fire, and Tillamook Ambulance, responded to a...

Lincoln City Woman Fakes Pelican Pub Burglary: How Not to Move to Maui

This tale of a beach-bound Bonnie without her Clyde is less Ocean's 11, and more "Ocean's Oops". As reported by KOIN6, on the unassuming Wednesday morning of July 31, 2023, a past employee of the Siletz Bay Pelican Brewing was nabbed for a slightly ambitious DIY "employee bonus". Denali Cox, 34...

The Mt. Hood Skiway Was a Flying Bus Trolley and an Epic Failure

(This article was partially reproduced with full permission via Creative Commons from Offbeat Oregon. We love their site...give them a browse sometime.) If the idea of cable car service to Mt. Hood's historic Timberline Lodge strikes you as a not particularly bad one, you’re not alone. The lodge...
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