Portland Underground

Thu, 21 Oct 2004 23:59:59 -800

Beneath the prim Victorian culture of late 19th-century Portland ran a truly
horrid mechanism for Shanghaiing unsuspecting saloon drunkards and unwise
women: the Portland
Underground. After work on this gray Thursday, I went downtown and met
Michael Jones of the Cascade Geographical Society for a tour of the network
of tunnels that run underneath a huge section of the old North End of downtown
Portland. Unfortunately, the lighting was very poor and I didn't feel it
prudent to blind everyone with flash photography.