Shanghaied in Portland

720 Southwest Broadway,Portland OR 97205

27 November, 2021

Description

A 1/2 mile long walking tour exploring the most dangerous seaport of the 1890's world. Shanghaied in Portland . . .featuring optional broadcast narration over a sanitized headset so hear clearly while maintaining a safe six-foot distance from others. We travel via MAX public transport (ticket included) from Pioneer Courthouse Square to the heart of the original downtown of Portland. On your tour of our “SinCity” you’ll see some of our oldest buildings, streets with original cobbles, our first public art and a theater building featuring a market you drove your horse and buggy through, as well as Portland’s Chinatown, the largest in the country in the 1890’s. Plus brothels, saloons, cribs, and more on a tour ending near Saturday Market and the World-famous VooDoo Donuts. NOTE: This is not a tour of the so-called Shanghai Tunnels, because there never were any. Tours of the supposed Shanghai Tunnel were started as a scam in the early 1970s by a group of students from a local university and unfortunately persist to this day.