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
Tobacco Executives are Assholes!!! – and they HATE Oregon History!!!
Kick Ass Oregon History on KBOO Radio… talking Tom McCall and Comics!
Take a Kick Ass Tour of some Oregon History!!
Top Ten Most Awesome Historical Portland Quotes
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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Tobacco Executives are Assholes! “Sure – tell me something I didn’t know.” And they HATE Oregon History!!! “Now what is this?” Alrighty, you ready for the story? Here we go... So on November 30th, Kick Ass Oregon History will be hosting the 2nd Annual DB Cooper Symposium, along with Skyjack author Geoffrey Gray at the [...]
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Today we got a chance to chat about Oregon’s Favorite Son, Gov. Tom McCall! Sarah Mirk of Bitch Magazine fame had a chance to chat about her Tom McCall & The Vortex comic from Know Your City, and Resident Historian Doug Kenck-Crispin dropped The Straight Shit on The Gov, and Tours! You can listen to the [...]
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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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So here and there in our humble little broadcasts, we have identified some quite memorable characters or lines that we have come across in the Beaver State’s History. We thought it might be a good idea to post these musings in a centrally located place, to allow others to ponder their significance, or even add [...]
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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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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:40 — 5.4MB) | Embed In preparation for April’s podcast Resident Historian DKC is conducting research in the orhistory.com test lab. Listen:
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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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So I have this problem. An impossible problem of legendary proportions. I want to drink in bars that have been closed for 100 years or so… And when I say drink, I mean fuckin’ drink! Like shitty drunk – hang over for days kinda drinking. Bourbon, Scotch, Beer kinda drunk. I just want to get [...]
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The Safari Club has closed… The Safari Club was opened in 1970 by an Estacadian (or “Esta-COD-an” as my brother would say) timber baron named Glen Park. Over six years, Mr. Park went on 23 hunting expeditions, to six different countries, and shot a shit ton of wild beasts. A placard in the Club calls [...]
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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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War Pigs – Hayseed Dixie War – Frankie Goes to Hollywood War – DOA Hand Covers Bruise – Trent Reznor Man of the Hour – Pearl Jam War on War – Wilco Listen to the episode!
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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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It Came Out of The Sky- CCR Imperial March- Star Wars (John Williams) Popcorn Them to “The People’s Court” I’m Going Home- Rocky Horror Picture Show I Do the Rock- Tim Curry
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The new Kick Ass Oregon History deals with the tale of the Willamette Meteorite (coming soon). But, according to this footage shot in Oregon in 1977, our beloved state has been menaced by ALL KINDS of troubling meteorites! Click the image to see the terror! Thanks to deepasabirdbath.com for the info.
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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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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 6:06 — 6.0MB) | Embed To get you excited for our Kick Ass Oregon History Christmas Special, here is a little teaser! Be sure to check back December 9 for: Kick Ass Oregon HIstory Vol. 5 #9: A Child’s Christmas in (Exploding) Whales.
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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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Some exciting Bigfoot News has emerged like an elusive primate from the mists of the Cascades over the holiday weekend… The latest from Dr. Melba S. Ketchum’s team… ‘Bigfoot’ DNA Sequenced In Upcoming Genetics Study Five-Year Genome Study At DNA Diagnostics Yields Evidence of Homo sapiens/Unknown Hominin Hybrid Species in North America Dallas, TX (PRWEB) [...]
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Hot Hot Hot – Arrow Jailbreak – Thin Lizzie Theme From The Great Impostor – Henry Mancini Crystal Frontier (Widescreen Version) – Calexico Seven Nation Army – White Stripes Devils & Dust – Bruce Springsteen Some Nights – Fun!
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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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Two Step- Dave Matthews Band Rhapsody in Blue- George Gershwin Come In Please- Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros Seasons of Love- Rent Soundtrack Black Shuck- The Darkness
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 21:30 — 20.3MB) | Embed In which we learn that neither death nor shitty pizza can prevent Portland’s restless prostitutes from walking the streets of Stumptown. Be sure to join us for our SPECIAL HALLOWEEN EVENT 10/26 at The Mission Theatre! View this episode’s Playlist!
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Otherworldly Music- Buddy Baker Rosemary’s Baby Theme- Krysztof Komeda Hand Covers Bruise- Trent Reznor Closer- Nine Inch Nails Pan’s Labyrinth Lullaby- Javier Navarrete Grim Grinning Ghosts (The Screaming Song)- Buddy Baker
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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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Here is the Song List for Kick Ass Oregon History podcast 5.5 “Strip Clubs” Devil’s Dance Floor Swagger Flogging Molly Dance Hall Days Wang Chung (I Had) The Time of My Life Dirty Dancing Soundtrack Tijuana Taxi Herb Alpert L.A. Woman L.A. Woman The Doors Lida Rose – Will I Ever Tell You The Music [...]
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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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At orhistory.com, we are sooooo fuckin’ cool, that we use WordPress to thrust ourselves out into those interwebs. And one of the cool admin features of the WordPress is that we can see what terms people type into various search engines to find our humble little site. Each and every day, the inter-elves that crank [...]
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Kick Ass Oregon History5.4: The Oregon Sate Hospital is live. Here are the songs featured in KAOH5.4- Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box Radiohead- Amnesiac How To Disappear Completely Radiohead- Kid A Sit Down, Stand Up (Snakes and Ladders) Radiohead- Hail To The Theif Videotape Radiohead- In Rainbows Motion Picture Soundtrack Radiohead- Kid [...]
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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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I have a long history with strip clubs in Portland. I think this relationship may have started when I was 15 or so. Even though I lived in North Portland, I did not attend Roosevelt High School. I had been hanging with a kinda rough crowd, and my parents decided that the Home of 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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So as you know by now, at Kick Ass Oregon History, we like to bring you THE STRAIGHT SHIT. We like to get to the bottom of the case. AND we like to bring you some interviews with folks knowledgeable in the field, who might be able to bring our Dear Ass Kickers some real [...]
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The July 19, 2012 issue of The Portland Mercury features a rather good article about Portland podcasts. Kick Ass Oregon History is featured and praised rather nicely, thank you very much! Another podcast that’s branching out into hosting events is the great local history podcast Kick Ass Oregon History, a cheerfully potty-mouthed show that investigates [...]
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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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or Snoop Dogg Could Be The Best Revisionist Historian In Our Epoch By Doug Kenck-Crispin Historians revisit the past. Many times the general public throws about a term called “revisionist,” and casts this word in a negative light. Honestly, this is what historians do – they revise the written record. They revisit sources, and make [...]
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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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On June 16th, 2012, The Jack London Bar hosted their First Anniversary Party. The party was well attended, and complimentary hors d’oeuvres were served (the mini-corn dogs were to DIE for!) Terry who manages the establishment as well as The Rialto Poolroom held an awards ceremony, and presented noteworthy individuals with a Golden Wolfie [...]
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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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This is the carved stone head we will be talking about on “Bigfoots in Oregon” Part 2. It was carved before the 1800s by Native Americans on the Columbia River, somewhere around The Dalles. It is from the collection of the Maryhill Museum of Art. The head is in the permanent collection, but not [...]
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:43 — 1.6MB) | Embed Part 2 of our investigative series on Bigfoots in Oregon arrives June 15th. Listen to this terrifying audio preview, if you dare. And if you haven’t checked out Part 1 of the series, you can find that here. Also – we have [...]
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Last week researchers from Oxford University and the Lausanne Museum of Zoology announced that they are seeking genetic materials (such as hair, skin, and blood samples) claimed to be of unknown animals such as Bigfoot. The goal of the Oxford-Lausanne Collateral Hominid Project is to catalogue and identify new species, including those long believed to [...]
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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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Bigfoot and Yeti DNA Study Gets Serious Discovery.com May 24, 2012 Scientists have requested that cryptozoologists send them material supposedly from cryptic species. They plan to conduct genetic analysis of the material. The call is a challenge to those who claim that science simply rejects such claims. A new university-backed project aims to investigate cryptic [...]
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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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Hey! All 12 of you- Welcome to the new site. We’ve made the transition to WordPress from iWeb. I will no longer be Doug’s bitch when it comes to posting content AND you can expect more items, more often. Plus you can soon begin to join the discussion and comment on podcasts and posts. Pretty [...]
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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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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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Historian Darren R. Reid interviews our own historian Doug Kenck-Crispin. Check it out on the interweb: http://www.darrenreidhistory.co.uk/talking-history-an-interview-with-doug-kenck-crispin/
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One of our FAVE historian friends, Heather Petrocelli did this #KickAss video on DB Cooper and has allowed us to boost it. Plus our own DKC is in it. How could you go wrong?
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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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When Hollywood needs to know about Oregon- they come to our Resident Historian Doug Kenck-Crispin. Check out his short list of 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Portland on the IFC Now blog.
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Portland, Oregon – 12/8/2011 – For Immediate Release: Dioramas! Die-Oh-Ram-Ahs! Those awesome little cardboard boxes detailed with globs of glue and faded construction paper that make history just jump to life! You made them in Mrs. Dingleberry’s 5th grade American History class. You saw them at that Crappy County Historical Society your Dad drug [...]
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OR- A Kick Ass Oregon History Review of the D.B. Cooper 40th Anniversary Shindig at the Ariel General Store Alright, so the past seven or eight days have been something like ya read about. In the last week, I have personally met or spoken with 1) DB Cooper’s Widow 2) DB Cooper’s Daughter, and [...]
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Once again our Resident Historian, Doug Kenck-Crispin is featured in the media coverage of the DB Cooper anniversary. This time CNN’s Patrick Oppmann reports from the DB Cooper Symposium in Portland. You can follow Patrick Oppmann on Twitter: @CNN_Oppmann
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Proving that orhistory.com is THE go-to source for Oregon History, our Resident Historian, Doug Kenck-Crispin is featured on a KATU news segment about DB Cooper. Being the “lame-stream” media they miss-pronounce his name, but still… He’s on THE TV!!!
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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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