Tag: Nob Hill Portland
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Fun Fact #65 When did Oregon go dry?
Read more: Fun Fact #65 When did Oregon go dry?When did Oregon go dry? Answer: Oregon prohibited liquor 1916. Three years after Oregon went dry, the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, banning the manufacture, sale, and transportation of “intoxicating liquors” across the entire United States. It prohibited the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors…”. Prohibition ended on December 5, 1933, with the ratification of the…
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Fun Fact #63 Which Nob Hill celebrity chef’s cooking was used to entice 1,000s of workers to move west during WWII?
Read more: Fun Fact #63 Which Nob Hill celebrity chef’s cooking was used to entice 1,000s of workers to move west during WWII?Which Nob Hill celebrity chef’s cooking was used to entice 1,000s of workers to move west during WWII? Answer: Henry Thiele’s cooking was used as an enticement for men from Vermont to Texas to move west to work in Henry Kaiser’s shipyards. Left: Chef Henry Thiele instructing hotel workers’ class at Girls; Polytechnic “Training Women Hotel Cooks to earn wage…
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Fun Fact #7 Lost Flanders Street Home Found Thanks to Local History Detective Mike Ryerson
Read more: Fun Fact #7 Lost Flanders Street Home Found Thanks to Local History Detective Mike Ryerson#7 The Mystery of the Lost Flanders Street Home Portland’s layers of street re-naming and re-numbering can some times cause a house to get lost. The Flanders Street home was found thanks to Local History Detective Slabtown team member Mike Ryerson. When Civil War army veteran Captain Joseph A. Sladen retired from the military in the early 1890s, he built…
