Please join us on June 18th, at 7:30pm for our 2nd Year Anniversary Party at The Jack London Bar! Oh, and we’ll be talking about The Great Flood of 1894 – when the Willamette flooded to an all time height – and crazy pictures such as the one above were shot all over downtown! (Yes! [...]
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We did this Kick Ass Historic Portland Strip Club Tour a while back. And we had sooo much fun, we have decided to do it again! You can read about the tour here, and some pictures of the event are on the Facebook thingy here. NOTE: If you came on last year’s tour – [...]
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*News Flash!!* Portland’s Historic Strip Club Tour ReDux – coming in August 8th!! ! *News Flash!!* Hey there Ass Kicker! Did you know that we do live tours? That’s right! We have been doing a tour that is sponsored by our friends at Know Your City called “Seedy, Seemy, Sinful Portland.” I like to call [...]
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The following review was penned by our Kick Ass Embedded Reprter (for the evening, at least), William Reagan. What a long, strange trip its….oh whatever At risk of stating the obvious, Portland loves it some weed. I don’t know if it’s the city’s unspoken look-the-other-way attitude toward public consumption, the favorable Northwest growing conditions, the intense [...]
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Please join Resident Historian Doug Kenck-Crispin at The Jack London Bar on Tuesday April 16th, 2013 at 7:30pm as he discusses – “Enemy Attack!!! Oregon and Japan in World War 2.” Between Japanese Balloon Bombs, Giant Submarines and a Bomb Dropping Float Plane, Oregon became “the only state to have had [specific bad shit] [...]
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A governor is a grassroots figure, a symbol of home and an image of nostalgia. - Governor Tom McCall, September 1967 On Saturday, March 23rd, 2013, Kick Ass Oregon History is proud to be partnering with Nestucca Spit Press and Know Your City (formerly The Dill Pickle Club) to present – Tom McCall’s 100th Birthday Party [...]
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***SOLD OUT *** SOLD OUT *** This Bus Tour is SOLD OUT*** Woah, Dude!! Kick Ass Oregon History is pleased to announce another bus tour – this one examining the history of marijuana in Oregon. And we are quite proud to announce that the Cascadia Cruiser will be our chariot for the evening! April 20th, [...]
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That’s right folks! It’s Oregon’s Birthday!!! And are WE going to have a Kick Ass Party for the young lady!! Please join us on February 19th at The Jack London Bar at 7:30pm. Resident Historian Doug Kenck-Crispin will tell some uniquely Oregon stories that help demonstrate just how Kick Ass our state truly is! Also [...]
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Our friend Adam at Killer Robot Shark made this KICK ASS Video about our January 31st Treasure and Loot Double Decker Bus Tour! Check it out!!! I want to thank everyone who joined us on the tour – and a very special thank you to our co-sponsors – Double Decker PDX, Double Mountain Brewery and [...]
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As everybody knows – Dioramas Kick Ass! Those awesome little cardboard boxes detailed with globs of glue and faded construction paper that make history just jump to life! And do you know what kinds of Dioramas Kick the most Ass? Why ones about the History of Oregon, of course!! As we related in last year’s [...]
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Win FREE SHIT!! Find out how YOU can win one of these AWESOME Oregon Christmas Ornaments!!! Kick Ass Oregon History is proud to present TWO Holiday themed shows this year, and in the “spirit of the season” (gag), the themes are HANGINGS and puking out your teeth and guts from RADIATION SICKNESS!! Yay!!! No [...]
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*** SOLD OUT *** THIS TOUR IS SOLD OUT*** Hey There Ass Kicker! Kick Ass Oregon History is partnering up again with Double Decker PDX and Double Mountain Brewery to present you another Kick Ass Tour – one that could make you stinking rich! In THIS Tour, we are going to examine sites of Treasure [...]
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As you know, we are pretty Geeked Out on DB Cooper. One of our most recent podcasts dealt with the subject, on this 41st Anniversary of the crime. I won’t go too into detail about it, but our interest runs very deep into the topic. So to celebrate (if that’s the right word) the caper, [...]
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A review by Guest Correspondent Bill Lascher Oregonians take the best field trips. Kick ass field trips, even. What’s more kickass than nearly 30 Oregonians piled into the back of a party bus to explore their state’s history? One possibility: outfitting that bus with four stripper poles, a ferocious mountain lion hood ornament, disco lights [...]
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On Saturday, November 17th, 2012, Kick Ass Oregon History is proud to partner with The Hollywood Theater in Portland, Oregon (4122 NE Sandy Boulevard) to present DB Cooper Movie Night! The event begins at 7:30pm. Are you asking “Who the hell is DB Cooper?” If so, please consult our two podcasts on the subject here [...]
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OOOppps! I did it again! I rented another goddamn bus. One with Stripper Poles in it… And I’ve been hard at work, researching and shit… As you may remember, we did a Kick Ass Oregon History Bus Tour of Historic Portland Bars and Brothels in August. You can see some pictures here. On October 17th [...]
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AKA – Portland’s Dead Whores… Kick Ass Oregon History is proud to team up with McMenamin’s Mission Theater to present a night of ghostly tales – about sex workers from Strip City. Some are ghosts, yes, but some are just whores or yore – famous sex workeres from our city’s past who deserve a little [...]
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Oh what an evening was had by all at the “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” 50th Anniversary Party at Mississippi Studios! About 100 Ass Kickers braved the hot-ass Sunday evening to come to our show. Some pictures are posted on our Facebook Machine right here. The Resident Historian – Doug Kenck-Crispin, introduced the show [...]
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*UPDATED* SEE some photos from the event RIGHT HERE. So we are going to have this big fuckin’ party, celebrating one of the greatest Oregon novels ever… In 1960 or so, Ken Kesey was volunteering to take hallucinogenic, psycho-active drugs while working the night shift at Menlo Park Veterans Hospital. He would talk to the [...]
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 7:35 — 7.3MB) | Embed As you have come to expect from this site, Kick Ass Oregon History delivers you the straight shit. In addition, we like to cover the exciting stories of Oregon’s past. So it was with a shit-ton of anticipation and frankly, excitement, that [...]
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What a night last night was!! As you know, we offered a Kick Ass Oregon History Double Decker Bus Tour of Portland’s Historic Bars and Brothels. 26 Ass Kickers (a literal “who’s who” of Portland History Geekery) met us at The Jack London Bar (who was so awesome to open up just for us!!!) for [...]
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Kick Ass Oregon History is proud to partner with The Jack London Bar to present attorney and Cooper Sleuth Galen Cook to Portland, Oregon area DB Cooper Sleuths and Geeks. This will be an evening not to be missed! Last year at the DB Cooper 40th Anniversary, there were plenty of folks getting air time [...]
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On Saturday, November 17th, 2012 , Kick Ass Oregon History is proud to partner with The Hollywood Theater to bring you DB Cooper Movie Night! Who is DB Cooper? For reals? Well if you don’t know – now you know (here, here, and here. Oh, and here.). We are planning on showing a (title soon [...]
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On July 17, 2012 at 7:30pm at The Jack London Bar, Resident Historian Doug Kenck-Crispin will talk about Famous Oregon JailBreaks. And The Voice of Kick Ass Oregon History, your Ghost Host, Andy Lindberg, will also be in attendance. Admission is free! We will be speaking about several famous JailBreaks, including Harry Tracy and Diane [...]
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Our Bigfoots in Oregon Night at the the Jack London Bar is this week, and to really GROK what we’re laying down you need to know a bit before you go. So, with that in mind, here is a sort of recommended reading list for you to go over while your surf from work today [...]
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Tuesday June 18, 2012 orhistory.com will be at the Jack London Bar 529 SW 4th Ave beginning at 7:30 for Stumptown Stories. Our story? Bigfoot. We’ll have a history of the beast in the Beaver State, witnesses, doubters, and debate. We will be joined by several biologists who have looked into these incidents as well, [...]
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**** SOLD OUT! **** This Event is SOLD OUT!**** So we got this idea one night… What if we did a tour of Historic Portland Bars? We could rent an eye-candy historic bus, drive to these most historic of pubs and saloons, and The Resident Historian and some of his historically informed friends would [...]
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And I’m gonna tell you Ass Kickers all about it… First, on June 1st, we will roll out our first of two “BigFoots in Oregon” podcasts, where we explore the history of the sightings of this elusive beast in The Beaver State. The second episode appears through the mists of the Cascades on June [...]
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On June 2nd and 3rd, The Resident Historian will be performing at the Bobwhite Theater opening. Some other folks will be kickin’ ass as well, including School of Rock, Alialujah Choir and Chervona. DO NOT regret missing this kick ass event! Some more deets will be updated here. So what’s the deal with this movie [...]
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If you attended our program at The Jack London Bar last night (5/15/2012), you had a chance to watch a film about Bobbie The Wonder Dog. I found an advertisement for the film in a July 11th, 1924 copy of the Eugene Register Guard newspaper. It was to be shown at The Heilig Theater, apparantly [...]
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My! What an event the showing of “The Seventh Day” at 5th Avenue Cinema truly was! The evening started out with the 5th Ave’s little used, temperamental 16mm projector (which worked fine on a Tuesday test run) beginning to smoke during a final trial run. It was decided [...]
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Join The Resident Historian down at The Jack London as he talks about an elephants, a drug store in Portland that was also a zoo, a bear chained to a tree and a whole bunch of other wild things. Oh yeah – and a dog that walked a really, really long way. [...]
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To paraphrase Huxley: To a person uninstructed in Oregon History, watching The 7th Day is like a walk through a gallery filled with wondrous works of art 9/10 of which have their faces turned to the wall. Know before you go. Listen to our Parks Block Riot podcast.
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Come see the film this vintage poster (from the PSU archives) is promoting. Our showing is this FRIDAY May 11 at 7 PM at 5th Ave Cinemas 510 SW Hall. Admission is $5.
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The original Portland Occupiers By Mike Allen On May 9, 2012 · In Arts & Culture This Friday’s The Seventh Day documentary screening depicts Park Blocks Riot of 1970 On Monday, May 11, 1970, Portland State students had been on strike for nearly a week. The campus had been closed since the previous Thursday, and the [...]
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How did THIS Become THIS? Follow the breadcrumbs with our podcast. First listen to KAOH 4.6: Park Blocks Riot, then KAOH 3.1: Vortex 1. It’s all happening, man. Then come SEE THE FILM!
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May 11, 1970 some shit went down in the Park Blocks behind PSU. We’ve got the footage. Labeled by some in our current era as “The FIRST Occupy Portland,” The Seventh Day was made by Portland State University students, with the help and guidance of the university’s Center for the Moving Image, during the student [...]
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Kick Ass Oregon History is quite pleased to partner with 5th Avenue Cinema to present the film The Seventh Day. Labeled by some in our current era as “The FIRST Occupy Portland,” The Seventh Day was made by Portland State University students, with the help and guidance of the university’s Center for the Moving Image, during [...]
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Doug brews up another round of Craft History for the Brothers Mac.
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Humanity on Wheels was a huge success. A standing-room only crowd was in attendance at the Jack London Bar. Pictures are on the FB HERE. Read about the show on oregonlive.com, where you can watch a video of the Open Mic section of the show. Thanks to the Portland Mercury and portlandafoot.org for promoting the [...]
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Kick Ass Oregon History is pleased to partner with TriMet Diaries in offering for your amusement and education… “Humanity On Wheels; an Evening of Mass Transit Tales!” As a prelude to the event, Kick Ass Oregon History will debut on March 15th a podcast entitled “Mad Max: Portland’s Death Trolley!” By resurfacing this iconic 1980s Portland graffiti, [...]
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If you want to be Timbers Army, then you are. If you’re Timbers Army, James Harrison wants to make you laugh. First conceived as a way to entertain North American soccer’s most ardent fans during the offseason, Harrison—otherwise known as TA Capo “Hermes”—will bring his Shed Culture show to the live stage for the first [...]
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A Great success for all involved. We want to send a huge thank you to Mississippi Studios. Also, we would like to thank Katy Barber, Matt Love, Ancient Portland, Jarad Miles and Oh Darling. We appreciate the help of our assistants Melissa Lang and Chad Torrey. And we also want to recognize our co-sponsors for this Kick Ass event, [...]
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The geeked-out history folks that bring you Kick Ass Oregon History are proud to announce www.orhistory.com’s DB Cooper Nite! The event will be held at Mississippi Studios (3939N. Mississippi, Portland, OR) on Sunday November 20th at 7:30pm. DB Cooper Nite will (honor? celebrate? recognise? condemn?) note the 40th anniversary of the only unsolved skyjacking in [...]
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The Great Flood of 1894 – 6/18/2013 – 7:30pm – Our 2 Year Anniversary at The Jack London Bar!!!
Portland Historic Strip Club Bus Tour Redux – 8/8/2013
Take a Kick Ass Tour of some Oregon History!!
Event Review: 4/20/2013 History of Marijuana in Oregon Bus Tour
Enemy Attack!!! 4/16/2013 – The Jack London Bar – 7:30pm
Tom McCall’s 100th B-Day Party – The “Party” Party – 3/23/2013 – The Jack London Bar – 8:00pm