An introduction to old town Brewing.
And an intro to Old Town.
Again, “Old town is an urban environment, and we expect people, to be prepared for it.”
In nineteen thirteen, Portland's population was 276 thousand people. The city changed from its mud, blood, and beer dominated early days, to the newer, gentler Portland, with Benson Bubbler's and the sweet-smelling Rose Festival.
This great city that we know today was a river town, whose beginnings we often look upon as being nothing more than a humble Victorian settlement...
But this "split-personality" Portland was one of the busiest ports on the globe in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and it happened in spite of the colorful types who resided here...
Walking around today you would never know it, but the next time you're having a nice quiet pint, at Kelly's Olympian, Dan & Louis's Oyster Bar (up on the next block), Erickson's Saloon, or Hobo's, take a look around...
the place you're relaxing in was, not too long ago, THEE most dangerous place in America to go out drinking.
Today Portland is amongst the countries most desirous places, but it secretly harbors an underworld darker than you can possibly imagine...
The North End, or Whitechapel, was a dangerous place.
The North End – get drunk and get Shanghaied.
Stopping for a drink in such innocent looking but notorious establishments as Erickson's Saloon, Hobo's, or practically anywhere else in the North End; suddenly a trap door would drop open and you would plummet into a dark underground.
You didn't know it yet, but you've just been 'shanghaied'...
by the 'crimps**'
...There was no other place like it throughout the entire United States....America's Most Dangerous City...
And the Shanghai Capitol of the World in the late 1800s.
Old Town Pizza and Brewery: Portland's Favorite Haunt
Rich in history, Old Town Pizza was founded in 1974. A constant presence at Old Town Pizza is Nina (pronounced "Nigh-na"), their resident ghost. Nina is often seen in a black dress observing diners and wandering the basement below. Nina's been there for more than 100 years. Old Town Pizza sits in the original Merchant's Hotel lobby. Underneath the floor boards are the Shanghai Tunnels.
Old Town Pizza is located in what used to be called the Old North End, a section of the city with a rather questionable reputation. Despite the upstanding clientele of the Merchant Hotel, even it was known for offering one of the oldest professions in the world: prostitution. As legend goes, one of the young "working women" was Nina, sold into this life by a thriving white slavery market. In an effort to clean up the neighborhood, traveling missionaries convinced Nina to share information in exchange for freeing her from a fate she did not choose. Nina cooperated but soon afterward was found dead in the hotel, now Old Town Pizza. Thrown down the elevator shaft, Nina is reported to have never left the building. Could it be Nina who carved her name in the brick of the old elevator shaft, now the backdrop of a cozy booth in the rear of the restaurant?
This is a haunted experience, and, they have an official haunted tour.
Old town kills it with their hazy IPAs. Try any in the Hazy IPA series, Haze of our Lives. Or try the Sun Dazed Kolsch, and Shanghai IPA, or Brussels Black Ale if you like dark beers.
And an intro to Old Town.
Again, “Old town is an urban environment, and we expect people, to be prepared for it.”
In nineteen thirteen, Portland's population was 276 thousand people. The city changed from its mud, blood, and beer dominated early days, to the newer, gentler Portland, with Benson Bubbler's and the sweet-smelling Rose Festival.
This great city that we know today was a river town, whose beginnings we often look upon as being nothing more than a humble Victorian settlement...
But this "split-personality" Portland was one of the busiest ports on the globe in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and it happened in spite of the colorful types who resided here...
Walking around today you would never know it, but the next time you're having a nice quiet pint, at Kelly's Olympian, Dan & Louis's Oyster Bar (up on the next block), Erickson's Saloon, or Hobo's, take a look around...
the place you're relaxing in was, not too long ago, THEE most dangerous place in America to go out drinking.
Today Portland is amongst the countries most desirous places, but it secretly harbors an underworld darker than you can possibly imagine...
The North End, or Whitechapel, was a dangerous place.
The North End – get drunk and get Shanghaied.
Stopping for a drink in such innocent looking but notorious establishments as Erickson's Saloon, Hobo's, or practically anywhere else in the North End; suddenly a trap door would drop open and you would plummet into a dark underground.
You didn't know it yet, but you've just been 'shanghaied'...
by the 'crimps**'
...There was no other place like it throughout the entire United States....America's Most Dangerous City...
And the Shanghai Capitol of the World in the late 1800s.
Old Town Pizza and Brewery: Portland's Favorite Haunt
Rich in history, Old Town Pizza was founded in 1974. A constant presence at Old Town Pizza is Nina (pronounced "Nigh-na"), their resident ghost. Nina is often seen in a black dress observing diners and wandering the basement below. Nina's been there for more than 100 years. Old Town Pizza sits in the original Merchant's Hotel lobby. Underneath the floor boards are the Shanghai Tunnels.
Old Town Pizza is located in what used to be called the Old North End, a section of the city with a rather questionable reputation. Despite the upstanding clientele of the Merchant Hotel, even it was known for offering one of the oldest professions in the world: prostitution. As legend goes, one of the young "working women" was Nina, sold into this life by a thriving white slavery market. In an effort to clean up the neighborhood, traveling missionaries convinced Nina to share information in exchange for freeing her from a fate she did not choose. Nina cooperated but soon afterward was found dead in the hotel, now Old Town Pizza. Thrown down the elevator shaft, Nina is reported to have never left the building. Could it be Nina who carved her name in the brick of the old elevator shaft, now the backdrop of a cozy booth in the rear of the restaurant?
This is a haunted experience, and, they have an official haunted tour.
Old town kills it with their hazy IPAs. Try any in the Hazy IPA series, Haze of our Lives. Or try the Sun Dazed Kolsch, and Shanghai IPA, or Brussels Black Ale if you like dark beers.