Largest, and according to many sources, MOST AWESOME. It was part carnival, part water park, and existed on 128 acres of Hayden Island land between Portland and Vancouver on the Columbia River. “Portland’s Million Dollar Playground”, Jantzen Beach Amusement Park...
Could you imagine being alive in the early 1900s? The world was a much different place, and it can be quite amazing to peer into the past through historic photos like these in the great northwest. The United States was becoming increasingly urbanized, with its cities...
The Lodge at Hot Lake Springs, formerly known as the Hot Lake Hotel (hit the link here to read our original extensive writeup), is once again open to the public. From the very beginning of the hotel opening, for reasons not entirely known, the building faced the bluff...
Maybe it was Tom Peterson knocking on our TV screen, Les Schwab promising free beef with a set of tires (looking back, that was such an oddball tie-in), or those ridiculously catchy jingles that somehow still live rent-free in our heads decades later (Merry Christmas,...
It could single-handedly rewrite Oregon’s known history, and you can visit this extraordinary structure. Exactly how old is the partially decayed hand-hewn log cabin and who built it? There are still many unanswered questions surrounding the building, but one...
