# https offbeatoregon (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover https offbeatoregon. Page: Feed: --- ## [Express clerk’s silence foiled Eugene train robber](https://offbeatoregon.com/xPodcastCycle/w046e.1501a.saginaw-train-robbery.mp3) _2026-08-21 · Offbeat Oregon History podcast_ The masked outlaw planned the job out carefully, and thought he was ready for anything. But he met his match in the cool-handed express man, and had to leave almost empty-handed. (Saginaw, Lane County; 1900s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1501a.saginaw-train-robbery.320.html) [Listen](https://offbeatoregon.com/xPodcastCycle/w046e.1501a.saginaw-train-robbery.mp3) ## [All-metal steam-powered zeppelin: Could it work?](https://offbeatoregon.com/xPodcastCycle/w046d.1602c.slate-airships-1of2.mp3) _2026-08-20 · Offbeat Oregon History podcast_ If so, the Linn County lad might have revolutionized air travel. But a launch-day disaster ruined his prototype, the Great Depression scared off all his investors, and the Hindenburg disaster ended the era of airship travel. (Linn and Benton county; 1910s, 1920s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1602c.pt2-slate-metal-airship-inventor-379.html) [Listen](https://offbeatoregon.com/xPodcastCycle/w046d.1602c.slate-airships-1of2.mp3) ## [Alsea lad became ‘The Nikola Tesla of Oregon’](https://offbeatoregon.com/xPodcastCycle/w046c.1602b.slate-airships-1of2.mp3) _2026-08-19 · Offbeat Oregon History podcast_ Thomas B. Slate first invented the commercial production process for making dry ice, then took his new-made fortune and used it to re-imagine airship travel in an almost unbelievably “steampunk” way. (Alsea, Benton County; 1900s, 1910s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1602b.slate-metal-airship-inventor-part1.378.html) [Listen](https://offbeatoregon.com/xPodcastCycle/w046c.1602b.slate-airships-1of2.mp3) ## [I-25 submarine gave Oregon its first wartime bombardment](https://offbeatoregon.com/xPodcastCycle/w046b.2401d1101e2.i25-submarine-2of2.mp3) _2026-08-18 · Offbeat Oregon History podcast_ The big sub was a key part of Oregon history; it fired on Battery Russell in June 1942, tried to light a forest fire with its on-board airplane that September, and sank several merchant ships. (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/2401d-1101e.i25-bombards-fort-stevens-108.632.html) [Listen](https://offbeatoregon.com/xPodcastCycle/w046b.2401d1101e2.i25-submarine-2of2.mp3) ## [Japanese sub blasted its way into Oregon history](https://offbeatoregon.com/xPodcastCycle/w046a.2401d1101e1.i25-submarine-1of2.mp3) _2026-08-17 · Offbeat Oregon History podcast_ IN LATE AUGUST 1943, the crew of the destroyer U.S.S. Patterson scrambled to battle stations off the coast of what is now Vanatu, near Australia. The sonar operator had picked up the signature of a big Japanese submarine submerging close by. The Patterson steamed into battle, depth charges rolling off the deck and lighting up the sea below. Then, on the final depth-charge barrage, a deep undersea… [Listen](https://offbeatoregon.com/xPodcastCycle/w046a.2401d1101e1.i25-submarine-1of2.mp3) ## [Japanese shipwrecks on coast predate Columbus](https://offbeatoregon.com/xPodcastCycle/w045e.1404d.japanese-shipwrecks-on-oregon-coast.mp3) _2026-08-14 · Offbeat Oregon History podcast_ The case of John Ottoson (ne Otokichi) in 1832 illustrates what can happen: Blown off to sea by a gale, he and his comrades rode the Kuroshio Current to Washington State — much to the astonishment of Dr. John McLoughlin. (Oregon Coast; 1830s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1404d.japanese-junks-blown-across-to-oregon.html) [Listen](https://offbeatoregon.com/xPodcastCycle/w045e.1404d.japanese-shipwrecks-on-oregon-coast.mp3) ## [‘Automo-bubble’ a part of Deschutes railroad war](https://offbeatoregon.com/xPodcastCycle/w045d.23-11.bubble-skinner-railroad-war.mp3) _2026-08-13 · Offbeat Oregon History podcast_ Upon his arrival in The Dalles in 1909 in quest of a job on the railroad, 19-year-old Jim Morrell was met by a friend — probably the one who’d told him there was work to be had. Morrell’s friend staked him to a meal and a flophouse bunk, and the next day he wasted no time in seeking out J.D. Porter, who with his brother Johnson Porter ran the construction company that had the Northern Pacific… [Listen](https://offbeatoregon.com/xPodcastCycle/w045d.23-11.bubble-skinner-railroad-war.mp3) ## [Gun-toting ‘Wildcat’ was nation’s first ‘shock jock’](https://offbeatoregon.com/xPodcastCycle/w045c.1301b.oregon-wildcat-duncan.mp3) _2026-08-12 · Offbeat Oregon History podcast_ Robert Gordon Duncan was the first radio broadcaster ever to be sent to prison for cursing on the air. For the first six months of 1930, the entire city was riveted to his radio show, wondering who he'd slander next. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1930s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1301b-oregon-wildcat-was-early-shock-jock.html) [Listen](https://offbeatoregon.com/xPodcastCycle/w045c.1301b.oregon-wildcat-duncan.mp3) ## [Portland’s Pioneer Square pitched as ‘crystal palace’](https://offbeatoregon.com/xPodcastCycle/w045b.1405c.pioneer-courthouse-square.mp3) _2026-08-11 · Offbeat Oregon History podcast_ Mayor Frank Ivancie, Pioneer Courthouse Square’s most intransigent opponent, gleefully declared the project “dead” in a 1982 speech. In doing so, he accidentally galvanized the citizen group that would prove him wrong. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1960s, 1970s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1405c.pioneer-courthouse-square.html) [Listen](https://offbeatoregon.com/xPodcastCycle/w045b.1405c.pioneer-courthouse-square.mp3) ## [Mountain town of Bourne was home of a magnificent swindle](https://offbeatoregon.com/xPodcastCycle/w045a.1011a.bourne-mining-town-swindle.mp3) _2026-08-10 · Offbeat Oregon History podcast_ Though home to some productive mines, the Blue Mountain boomtown made much of its money working the suckers back east; then its head honcho disappeared into the night with the money, hours ahead of the law. (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1011a-gold-mining-swindle-left-bourne-a-ghost-town.html) [Listen](https://offbeatoregon.com/xPodcastCycle/w045a.1011a.bourne-mining-town-swindle.mp3) ## [Accept your Doppler invite (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/vnLjePY3ZNA4) _2026-08-10 · **Sponsored**_ Create your Doppler account using the invite code you received. ## [History happenings at OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY in Portland, next few months](https://offbeatoregon.com/xPodcastCycle/w044f.calendar-260808.mp3) _2026-08-07 · Offbeat Oregon History podcast_ This is a new Saturday morning feature on the Offbeat Oregon podcast! A quick run-down of the fun things that are happening at local historical museums around the state. We're starting out with "the big one" — the Oregon Historical Society in Portland. There's a fantastic archaeology panel talk, a free-admission "block party" in September, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning Presidential historian on the… [Listen](https://offbeatoregon.com/xPodcastCycle/w044f.calendar-260808.mp3) ## [Did primitive Hug Point Road save our beaches?](https://offbeatoregon.com/xPodcastCycle/w044e.2501a1011e.hug-point-road.mp3) _2026-08-07 · Offbeat Oregon History podcast_ SOMETIME AROUND 1908, a resident of south Clatsop County — probably from the hamlet of Arch Cape — got sick and tired of dealing with Hug Point, and decided to do something about it. — It was a decision that had some unintended consequences — because it led directly to the law that made Oregon’s beaches public property.... (Arch Cape, Clatsop County; 1900s, 1910s) -- #ofor #oregonHistory… [Listen](https://offbeatoregon.com/xPodcastCycle/w044e.2501a1011e.hug-point-road.mp3) ## [Pioneer Chinese doc was a city treasure in John Day](https://offbeatoregon.com/xPodcastCycle/w044d.1406d.doc-hay-kam-wah-chung.mp3) _2026-08-06 · Offbeat Oregon History podcast_ Settlers in John Day in the late 1800s learned the healer of Kam Wah Chung could cure diseases others couldn't; all his patients survived the fatal Spanish Flu epidemic in 1919. (John Day, Grant County; 1880s, 1890s, 1900s. 1910s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1406d.doc-hay-lung-on.html) [Listen](https://offbeatoregon.com/xPodcastCycle/w044d.1406d.doc-hay-kam-wah-chung.mp3) ## [Valley was Oregon Trail’s eden, used-ox dealership](https://offbeatoregon.com/xPodcastCycle/w044c.1709b.grand-ronde-valley.mp3) _2026-08-05 · Offbeat Oregon History podcast_ The Grand Ronde Valley was a little pocket of temperate, well-watered land, tucked into some of the most inhospitable territory on the trail, was a real lifesaver for many an emigrant. But, that didn't stop them from griping about the prices they were charged .... (Near LaGrande, Union County; 1840s, 1850s) (For text and pictures, see… [Listen](https://offbeatoregon.com/xPodcastCycle/w044c.1709b.grand-ronde-valley.mp3)