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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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Wicked Portland: The Wild and Lusty Underworld of a Frontier Seaport Town

Wicked Portland: The Wild and Lusty Underworld of a Frontier Seaport Town

John, Finn J.

Paperback

Series: Wicked

Regional: Pacific NorthwestTrue Crime

Publisher Price: $21.99

ISBN10: 1609495780
ISBN13: 9781609495787
Publisher: History Press
Published: Jun 5 2012
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Tucked away in the northwestern frontier, Portland offered all the best vices: opium dreams, gambling, cheap prostitutes, and drunken brawling. In its early days, Portland was a combination rough-and-ready logging camp and gritty, hard-punching deep-water port town, and as a young city (established in the late 1840s) it developed an international reputation for lawlessness and violence. In the early 1900s, the British and French governments filed formal complaints about Portland to the US state department, and Congressional testimony from the time cites Portland as the worst place in the world for crimping. Today, tours of the alleged Shanghai Tunnels offer Portland visitors a taste of that seedy past.

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