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History by the Glass Podcast

Your podcast tour of Portland, Oregon’s famously historic and infamously endangered bars.

12/15/2025

Confidential: Adventures in the Historic Bar Culinary Underbelly

12/06/2025

"Leathery and walnutty ... low slung ... dark ... brick ... red ... beautiful ... comfortable ... hexagonal window frames ... polished '70s ... but still kind of funky ... somewhere between the greatest (vintage bar) theme park ever and an immaculate original ... "

The nostalgia created by the interior of Milwaukie's Golden Nugget bar was so thick the HBTG boys were brushing it away from their faces.

11/28/2025

INTRODUCING YOUR 2025 HBTG LISTENERS' CHOICE EPISODE TOURNEY CHAMPION....the nearly unknowable and funky AF looking Golden Nugget Bar in historic downtown Milwaukie, nominated by none other than !!

We'll be there TONIGHT!!

Thanks to all of you who nominated some fantastic Portland bars! 🍻

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Yukon Tavern by
Walter Mitty's by
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McQueen's by
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Daily Double by Andrea Stanley (via Facebook)
Sandy Jug Tavern by

11/26/2025

2025 Listeners' Choice Episode announcement coming soon! 🍻

(Thanks again for all your nominations and old bar energy!!)

11/24/2025

LAST CALL...to get your nominations in for our 2025 Listeners' Choice Episode!!

If your suggestion is randomly selected, YOU WIN... absolutely nothing! (Or you could have a cameo in the episode, it's happened before...ask !!)

Nominate your favorite old bar in the comments or send us a DM... If we haven't been there before (or in a long long time) and it's fairly old... IT'S ELIGIBLE. 🍻

11/15/2025

It's November... We're still drinking and recording... You're still listening and following... And we're so incredibly THANKFUL!!

So once again, we're opening up nominations for our LISTENERS' CHOICE EPISODE where YOU get to tell US where to go...sit for 2 hours...dig into the history... explore the drinks, burgers, and bathrooms...make some new friends, and, finally ...record an actual episode!

Swipe left to see the old bars we've been to previously and aren't eligible this time, as much as we love 'em.

BUT any other place in and around the Portland metro area that's been around since about 1990 or earlier (or replaced a much older bar) is a viable nominee!

COMMENT BELOW, DM... TELL US WHERE TO GO NEXT!! 🍻🎙️

11/12/2025

Inside the Podcasters Studio...

TRAP... Thank you... Goodbye.

10/31/2025

🎃 Happy Halloween to ALL bars celebrating, especially The Trap!

On our recent visit, bartender Tamara promised more decorations were coming — but it looked pretty fu***ng decked out to us!

Shout out to spookily named Ghost Hole, Holy Ghost, Creepy's, Sad Valley, The Uncanny, and every other haunt that knows and shares its ghost stories.

Get weird today — you can be anyone ya wanna be!

(Bars pictured: The Trap, Holman's, Applebee's, Thatcher's, Old Barn)

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10/28/2025

🍳 Inspired by listener who DM’d us seeking legit Portland dive bars serving quality breakfast, we not only headed over to SE’s The Trap but also discussed our Mt. Rushmore of early morning bar eats around town on our “did-you-know-we’re-a-podcast” podcast History By The Glass! 🎤

🥞 We are pretty much in agreement that Dockside in NW takes the historic bar breakfast (pan)cake.

But after that, it gets a little murky. And the next best option is probably more dependent on where you fell asleep the night before.

📍 For us citizens of Washington County, the nearest (and thus second-best) option could be Big Red’s, Old Barn, Gator’s, G-Man Brewery, Renner’s, and all points in between. Basically — if a bar is near you and opens early, Oregon demands they serve food, so that’s your best option.

Oh, also try THE TRAP, which certainly served quality breakfast inside a dive bar.

🚨 So, what’s YOUR go-to bar breakfast or boozy morning Mt. Rushmore?

10/08/2025

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09/24/2025

Wood is good. 🪵🍻

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History by the Glass... “People Like It!”

On Feb. 7, 2018, guided by an obscure book written by a former alcoholic and newspaper man more than a decade earlier, two co-workers and drinking buddies walked through the door of Bill's Steak House & Lounge on a sleepy Wednesday night, officially launching a quixotic journey into the heart of Portland's classic bar culture. From the onset, it was a scattershot plan made up almost entirely on the fly with no clear idea of what "success" looked like. It took nearly two months before the recap of the first night was posted and for most of the early trips out, it was simply an easy excuse to get together and knock back a few cold ones in new (to us) surroundings.

Nearly two years later, not all that much has changed.

However, inspired by the continued bemusement (or at least, non hatred) of our friends, and family, we slowly expanded our outreach, getting the podcast up and running, and establishing a social media foothold. And over the course of 30+ historic bars explored, this much we do know -- these places and the people that run and drink at them matter. We may not actually enjoy each one we visit and some are certainly more economically or culturally viable than others, BUT we believe each and every one of these Old Portland gems are worth experiencing and discussing. So that’s just what we’ve done and will continue to do in some shape or form and in varying states of intoxication.

Thanks for reading and listening!