At one time, this great city that we know today as Portland, Oregon, was a river town whose beginnings we often look upon as being nothing more than a humble Victorian settlement. However, in reality it was considered the most "dangerous port in the world" because of the "Shanghaiing Trade" that existed. The so-called Victorian-refined Portland was known as the “Unheavenly City" or the “Forbidden City”.
Stopping for a drink in such innocent looking but notorious establishments as Erickson's Saloon, people became unsuspecting victims who found themselves beneath the streets in tunnels and being carried out to the waterfront and sold for "blood money"...