Freebie Travel Guide to Western Oregon: Historical, Cultural and Sometimes Macabre on the Cheap

By Marques Vickers

The Freebie Travel Guide to Western Oregon escorts you to renown but sometimes obscure attractions that are available to savor without the burden of admission fees (unless indicated otherwise). Featured are attractions known to insiders with unconventional tastes that provide legitimate insight into what distinguishes Western Oregon. Many of the accompanying stories once made international headline news. Several of the profiles were once known exclusively only to locals.

This guide not only photographs each location, but also provides specific background commentary, addresses and locations where each profile may be accessed. There is no equivalent touring guide that exposes both the aesthetic and gritty in such explicit fashion.

If you are bored by limp and uninspiring travel advice, this guide is ideal for the restless searcher looking for something unique and different. Paranormal activity sometimes accompanies at no extra charge. The Freebie Travel Guide to Western Oregon includes:

Historical Sightseeing and Destinations
Columbia River Gorge, Multnomah Falls, Historic Columbia River Highway, International Rose Test Garden, Haystack Rock, Devil’s Churn, Oregon Sand Dunes National Park, Battle Rock, Cape Meares Lighthouse, Seaside Carousel, Crystal Ballroom, Erickson’s, Fish Peddler, Haceta Head Lighthouse, Highway 101 Roadway Collapse, Octopus Tree, Sand Lake Recreation Area, Tillamook Creamery, Whale Bones Sculpture and Yaquina Head Lighthouse

Scandals
Henry Alber’s German Tavern Songs, Crystal Hotel, Dude Ranch, Portland’s Great Fire of 1873, Michael Grave’s Portland Building, Golden West Hotel, Lownsdale Park, Mayor Harry Lane, The Johnson Family, Liverpool Lil, Alice Oberle Celtic Burial Cross, Open Door Vice Reform, Oregon State Hospital, Club Continental Baths, 1917 Portland Mayor’s Election, Richards Restaurant, Sambo’s, Opium Trade and Vanport

Hauntings
Witches Castle, White Eagle Saloon, Astoria, Edgefield, Fairview Training Center, Hollywood Theatre and Kell’s Irish Restaurant

Crime and Murder
Frank Akin Assassination, Tammy Albertson and Joan Leigh Hall’s Disappearances, Murders of Ashley Benson, Nancy Bergeson, Rhonda Castro, Aaron Danielson, Laura Foster, Guy Phillips, Sergeant Jason Goodding, Wendy Hildreth, Diane Hank, Julie Herman, Kathleen Parks, Diane Wyckoff, Police Officer Chris Kilcullen, Anne Jeanne Tingry-Le-Coz, Tim Moreau, Roma Ollison, Jason Scott Williams and Eric Tamiyasu, Bowden Bomb, Clackamas Town Center Shooting, Portland’s Court of Death, Pioneer Delaney Murder and Hanging, Diane Downs, Oregon Prison Director Michael Francke, Michelle Dee Gates, Superintendent of Police Holly Holcomb’s Murder, Kip Kinkel’s High School Shooting Rampage, Robert Paul Langley, Frank Kodat’s Gang, Christian Longo, Seaside Thrill Killings, Oregon’s Last Executed Killer, Skinheads Fatal Beating, Mystery Disappearance of Murderer Tyrom Theis, Abduction and Killing Under St. Johns Bridge, Wasco County Jail Strangling, 1946 Willamette River Floating torso, Brooke Wilberger’s Abduction and Murder and The Zone Nightclub Shooting

Serial Killers
Bobby Jack Fowler, Ted Bundy, Jerry Brudos, Dark Strangler, William Scott Smith, Ward Weaver III and Eugene Serial Killer Mystery

Portland Institutions
Kelly’s Olympian Bar, Dan and Louis Oyster Bar, Boneyard, Mary’s Club, Merchants Hotel, Multnomah Hotel, Society Hotel and Blagen Building

Historical Figures
Political Fixer John Bourne, Writer Louis Bryant, Crime Boss Big Jim Elkins, Right to Death Advocate Brittany Maynard and Writer John Reed

Bridges
Astoria-Megler, Bullards, Cape Creek, Isaac Lee Patterson, Conde McCullough Memorial, Vista and Yaquina Bay Bridges

• Language: English
• Publisher: Marques Vickers
• Release date: Jun 24, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005198466

Marques Vickers

Visual Artist, Writer and Photographer Marques Vickers is a California native presently living in the San Francisco Bay Area and Seattle, Washington regions. He was born in 1957 and raised in Vallejo, California. He is a 1979 Business Administration graduate from Azusa Pacific University in the Los Angeles area. Following graduation, he became the Public Relations and ultimately Executive Director of the Burbank Chamber of Commerce between 1979-84. He subsequently became the Vice President of Sales for AsTRA Tours and Travel in Westwood between 1984-86. Following a one-year residence in Dijon, France where he studied at the University of Bourgogne, he began Marquis Enterprises in 1987. His company operations have included sports apparel exporting, travel and tour operations, wine brokering, publishing, rare book and collectibles reselling. He has established numerous e-commerce, barter exchange and art websites including MarquesV.com, ArtsInAmerica.com, InsiderSeriesBooks.com, DiscountVintages.com and WineScalper.com. Between 2005-2009, he relocated to the Languedoc region of southern France. He concentrated on his painting and sculptural work while restoring two 19th century stone village residences. His figurative painting, photography and sculptural works have been sold and exhibited internationally since 1986. He re-established his Pacific Coast residence in 2009 and has focused his creative productivity on writing and photography. His published works span a diverse variety of subjects including true crime, international travel, California wines, architecture, history, Southern France, Pacific Coast attractions, fiction, auctions, fine art marketing, poetry, fiction and photojournalism. He has two daughters, Charline and Caroline who presently reside in Europe.

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FREEBIE TRAVEL GUIDE TO WESTERN OREGON

Historical, Cultural and Sometimes Macabre on the Cheap

Published by Marques Vickers at Smashwords

Copyright 2021-2023

TABLE OF CONTENTS

A Contract Killing With A Questionable Resolution (Portland)

Henry Albers: Poorly Timed Overindulgence and Serenading (Portland)

Tammy Albertson: A Disappearance and Murder With Unsettling Loose Ends (Mohler)

If Walls Could Speak: A Trio of Century Old Portland Landmarks (Portland)

Astoria’s Historic Hauntings (Astoria)

Astoria-Megler Bridge: Expansive Crossing of State Borders (Astoria to Megler, Washington)

Battle Rock: A Doomed Expedition and Stealth Escape (Port Orford)

A Questionable Medical Determination Potentially Clouds A Murder Investigation (Portland)

A Double Life Terminated Violently on a Hotel Stairwell (Portland)

A Bare Boneyard Alternative for the Destitute (Portland)

A Tale of Two Figures in 1890s Oregon Soiled Politics (Salem)

The Bowden Bomb: A Domestic Fuselage (Portland)

Women’s Shoe Fetish Killer Plagues the Willamette Valley (Salem)

Louise Bryant: A Companion and Muse With Her Own Legacy (Portland)

Bullards Bridge and Beach Bullards Bridge and Beach: Lumber Accumulating Sands (Bandon)

Cape Creek Bridge: A Roman Aqueduct Crossing Into Modernity (Florence)

Cape Meares Lighthouse: Protecting the Coast of Tillamook Bay (Tillamook)

Seaside Carousel Mall: Riding Stylishly in Circles (Seaside)

Rhonda Castro: The Travesty Behind A Trailhead Shove (Cascade Locks)

The Tainted Clackamas Town Center (Happy Valley)

Club Continental Baths: A Clean Transition to a Reinventional Use (Portland)

Columbia River Gorge: Chiseled in Beauty (Washington/Oregon Border)

Historic Columbia River Highway: Turning Back History (Troutsdale to The Dalles)

A Revenge Murder in Portland’s Historic Court of Death (Portland)

Crystal Ballroom: Dancing On Clouds For Over A Century (Portland)

The Crystal Hotel: Romanticizing An Infamous Past (Portland)

The Murder of Aaron Danielson Amidst The Chaos of Protest and Destruction (Portland)

A Dark Strangler Creeps Into Portland En Route to Further Mayhem (Portland)

A Pioneer Murder, Hanging and Missing Treasure (Salem)

Devil’s Churn: Satanic Unruliness Amidst A Swirling Inlet (Yachats)

Devil’s Punchbowl: A Witch’s Brew of Turbulent Foam (Otter Rock)

Diane Downs: A Sordid Mother’s Shooting of Her Children (Springfield)

The Ultimate Dude Ranch Experience (Portland)

Edgefield: From Extreme Poverty To Recreational Hospitality (Troutdale)

The Dark Mid-Century Legacy of Crime Boss Big Jim Elkins (Portland)

Erickson’s Saloon: Sanctuary and Exploitation Under A Singular Giant Umbrella (Portland)

Laboriously Tracking Down An Elusive Eugene Sexual Serial Killer (Eugene)

Portland’s Great Fire of 1873 (Portland)

The Savage Legacy of Serial Killer Bobby Jack Fowler (Newport)

A History of Cruelties and Institutional Abuse Razed and Reinvented (Salem)

The Fish Peddler: Oysters, Oysters, Oysters (Bay City)

An Amicable Divorce In Appearance Only (Seaside)

Michael Francke’s Stabbing: A Disturbing Murder and Requiem (Salem)

Aesthetic Versus Pragmatic Realities Involving Contemporary Architecture (Portland)

Michele Dee Gate’s Doomed Saga That Defies Explanation (Portland)

Golden West Hotel: A Lingering Landmark From The Failed Prohibition Era (Portland)

Sergeant Jason Goodding: A Not So Routine Arrest and Killing (Seaside)

Haceta Head Lighthouse: Scanning the Ocean Horizon From The Heights (Florence)

The Separation of Marriage and Life Between Michael and Wendy Hildreth (Hood River)

Joan Leigh Hall’s Fatal Stroll Into Oblivion (Warrenton)

Diane Hank: A Babysitter ‘s Unexplained and Fatal Disappearance (Portland)

Haystack Rock: Hurled Basalt From The Gods (Cannon Beach)

An Impulsive Oceanside Murder and Botched Arson Cover-Up (Oceanside)

Highway 101 Roadway Collapse (Moolack Beach)

A Murder Within Law Enforcement Ranks (Salem)

Benevolent and Faithful Ghosts Remain In A Reborn Theatre (Portland)

Kell’s Famous First Alert Phantom (Portland)

Officer Chris Kilcullen: The Vague Divide Between Sanity and Accountability (Springfield)

Kip Kinkel: A Boy and His Guns (Springfield)

A Park Of Protest and Alternative Lifestyle Congregation (Portland)

The Unsuccessful Sexual Scandal Set-Up of Mayor Harry Lane (Portland)

Robert Paul Langley: A Cactus Garden Amidst A Mental Hospital (Salem)

The Johnson Family: Over A Cliff Into Deeper Speculation (The Dalles)

Going Straight: Portland 1930s Style (Portland)

Liverpool Lil: Honest Larceny and Debauchery (Portland)

The Masquerading Façade of Christian Longo (Newport and Waldport)

Mary’s Club: Nudity and Legalized Stripping As A Portland Institution (Portland)

Brittany Maynard: A Solitary Ripple Fuels An Ocean of Discussion (Portland)

Jesse McAllister and Bradley Price’s Seaside Thrill Killing (Seaside)

Conde McCullough Memorial Bridge: Testament to Genius (North Bend)

A Solitary French Courtesan’s Prolonged Cold Case Murder (Portland)

Merchants Hotel: A Storied History Reconstructed Primarily Underground (Portland)

A Counterfeit Ticket Ring and Cadaver Deficient Murder (Portland)

Harry Charles Moore: The Control Freak Who Relinquished His Grip (Salem)

Multnomah Falls: Tumbling Heights (Between Corbett and Dodson)

Multnomah Hotel: An Aerial Experiment For An Opening (Portland)

Alice Oberle: A Celtic Cross and a Family’s Shame (Portland)

Octopus Tree: 300-Year-Old Tentacles (Tillamook)

The Open Door and Great Vice Crusade of 1896 (Portland)

Roma Ollison: An Enormous Gangster Splattering (Portland)

Oregon Sand Dunes National Park: North America’s Largest Expanse of Dunes (Coos River to Florence)

Abrupt Mass Death Within An Atmosphere of Institutional Discretion (Salem)

Kathleen Parks and Diane Wyckoff: Oregon State University Co-Ed Murders (Corvallis)

Isaac Lee Patterson Bridge: Traversing the Volatile Rogue River (Gold Beach to Wedderburn)

The 1917 Mayor’s Election That Tilted Portland to the Right (Portland)

John Reed: Portland’s Disconcerting Literary Lion (Portland)

Richards Restaurant and Clandestine Booth Service(s) (Portland)

International Rose Test Garden: Portland’s Historic Iconic Symbol (Portland)

Namesake of a Forgotten Restaurant Chain (Lincoln)

Sand Lake Recreation Area: From Tillamook to the Sea (Sand Lake)

The Protector Who May Have Been Wrong (Corvallis)

A Fatal Beating Exposes A Sect Espousing Intolerance (Portland)

William Scott Smith: A Pathetic and Pitch Darkened Predator (Salem)

Society Hotel: Sanctuary From A Hostile Maritime Environment (Portland)

Gordon Sondland: 48 Hours of Global Scrutiny (Portland)

Eric Tamiyasu: A Silent Killing Eluding A Conclusive Motive (Dee)

Tyrom Theis: A Callous Robbery and Execution With A Vanishing Perpetrator (Gresham)

Under St. Johns Bridge: A Tainted Patch of Forest Brush (Portland)

Portland’s Once Illicit Opium Trade Arrives Full Circle (Portland)

Tillamook Creamery: The Genesis of Cheese and Dairy (Tillamook)

Vanport’s Hasty Construction and Abrupt Demise (Portland)

An Iconic Landmark Blemished To Reduce Impulsive Suicides (Portland)

Ward Weaver III: A Predatory Neighbor With A Predictable Outcome (Oregon City)

Wasco County Jail: A Killing Site For A Local Informant (The Dalles)

Whale Bones Sculpture: Heritage From The Ancients (Newport)

1946 Willamette River Floating Torso Murders (Portland)

Brooke Wilberger: An Abduction Following A Twisted Trail (Corvallis)

Fasting With Fatal Consequences (Portland)

Spirits Evidenced at Portland’s Famed Witches Castle (Portland)

Yaquina Bay Bridge: Picturesque Icon of Art Deco (Newport)

Yaquina Head: Oldest Lighthouse But Briefest Commissioned (Newport)

A Seemingly Regular Guy Bloodies Portland’s Night Scene (Portland)

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Photography shot between 2019-2022. Some of the locations may have altered with time and ownership changes. Many of the locations are still privately inhabited. Please don’t disturb the residents.

A Contract Killing With A Questionable Resolution

On the morning of November 20, 1933, Frank Akin answered a knock on the front door of his apartment. His wife had already left for work and he had unfastened the security chain on the door as he was expecting the arrival of their cleaning lady. Earlier in March, an armed assailant had knocked on his door greeting him with a drawn pistol. Akin was able to punch the man in the face and slam the door on him. This time the armed assailant backed him into his living room with his hands raised. Akin may have been edging towards his loaded handgun on a dresser as the intruder followed him into his apartment.

The assassin almost immediately shot Akin’s fatally in the right eye. He may have searched through some of Akin’s briefcase papers and taken certain documents. Nothing was specifically reported missing, but there was little doubt that the shooting was a contract killing. The killer vanished within two minutes evading eyewitnesses.

Akin was an auditing accountant who’d just completed an investigation of the Port of Portland and was just beginning one for the Portland Water Bureau. Given the tenor of the lawless times, Akin likely discovered financial irregularities, but were they severe enough to merit his death?

Akin was scheduled to present his findings to the state legislature on the day after his murder. He had reputedly found evidence of the general manager’s unethical behavior. The official would be exonerated of all potential charges against him and later became the general manager at the Portland Electric Power Company.

After Akin’s murder, his compiled findings reportedly vanished. Some city-governing individuals had actually viewed the contents stating that no evidence of wrongdoing was discovered. Portland’s city auditor George Funk eventually confirmed that conclusion and closed the investigation.

For three years, the murder inquiry stalled and speculation was raised regarding other potential motives. These theories speculated that Akin may have been killed by someone burned in one of his mining deals or by a jealous husband from one of his many reported lovers. His wife affirmed his fidelity publicly, but the rumors remained as glowing embers.

An answer to the enigma emerged from a resulting plea-bargaining deal following a massacre at a beach house in Bremerton, Washington on the Olympic Peninsula. Six wealthy individuals had been tied up and robbed during an apparent break-in. One of the blindfolds may have slipped on one of the victims enabling her to potentially identify the perpetrator(s). All six were brutally murdered to prevent any eyewitnesses.

The follow-up investigation was incompetently managed and miraculously resulted in two arrests. Both men had extended criminal records. One of the suspects traded his insider information about Frank Akin’s murder for leniency with the Bremerton mass killing. He identified hoodlum Jack Justice as the planner of Akin’s killing and Leo Hall as the shooter. Hall coincidentally was his co-conspirator in the Bremerton robbery and killing.

Justice was a low-level Portland mobster notorious for pimping, bootlegging and drug dealing. He claimed to have encountered Akin in 1924 and had invested and lost $300 in a Wyoming dry well oil scheme. The consequences seemed too insignificant to merit a contract killing. Regardless, a jury convicted him of first-degree murder and sentenced him to life imprisonment. He would die from a heart attack while driving in southeastern Portland twenty years later.

The alleged shooter Leo Hall was also convicted and hung at the Washington State Penitentiary. His plea-bargaining accomplice only served a short stint in prison.

Portland law enforcement authorities remained skeptical regarding the verdict. Most considered the case unsolved despite a conviction and supposed confession. Jack Justice may have indeed hired the killer, but did the correct source ultimately elude accountability?

Frank Akin Murder Site

Arbor Court Apartments (currently Grandview Apartments)

1329 SW Fourteenth Avenue, Apartment #8, Portland

Henry Albers: Poorly Timed Overindulgence and Serenading

Bernard Albers arrived into Portland in 1889 after emigrating from Lingen, Germany. He began employment as a driver for a feed merchant company, an industry his father had trained him in. Wheat and flour were two of Oregon’s most profitable exports. By 1893, he had established his own grain business with two separate partners.

His large family emigrated from Germany in 1900 and he and four brothers incorporated as the Albers Brothers Milling Company. The operation milled soft wheat into flour and corn into meal, along with additional by-products. They evolved into the West Coast’s leading mill operation with numerous milling outlets and diverse product lines.

In 1911, they completed construction of a six-story brick and concrete reinforced structure following a 1902 fire that had destroyed their main plant in Portland. The imposing building was constructed between Naito Parkway and the Willamette River just north of the Broadway Bridge. The complex combined milling, warehousing, shipping and office space.

When Bernard Albers died in 1908, brother Henry became president and managed the Portland operations. Brothers William, George and Frank took charge of the company’s additional mills.

Henry became prominent within Portland society joining many of the city’s business and fraternal associations. Under his leadership, the company flourished throughout the 1910s.

His sound judgment then lapsed and he lost everything.

In 1918, he was arrested for drunkenness on a return train back to Portland from California. To compound his misfortune, he belligerently protested his arrest by allegedly serenading the police officers with German tavern songs. He couldn’t have chosen a more humorless or unappreciative audience. He was additionally charged with violating the Federal Espionage Act aimed at German-Americans displaying any signs of disloyalty in the midst of World War I.

Henry Albers resigned his presidency in disgrace and spent the remaining years attempting to resurrect his reputation. His legal conviction was eventually overturned, but he was eased out of the company before dying of an abrupt stroke in 1921.

With the emergence of the Great Depression and the decline of the international wheat market, the Albers Brothers merged with Seattle-based Carnation Milk Products. Albers Company became a division of Carnation maintaining their product line name. The remaining brothers were seated on Carnation’s board of directors. Nestle purchased the Carnation and Albers brands in 1984. The mill building was rehabilitated during the 1980s and the Albers brand purchased uniquely in 2008 by Continental Mills of Seattle.

Albers Mill Building

1200 NW Naito Parkway, Portland

Tammy Albertson: A Disappearance and Murder With Unsettling Loose Ends

It was spring break, Sunday, March 22, 1992. Tammy Albertson, 16, decided to skip church. Her mother, younger brother and sister attended, as was their custom. She had planned to visit her boyfriend’s house later that day. Her stepfather Jack Jamison reportedly drove her to the Mohler Grocery Store. According to Tammy’s brother, Jamison continued on to his job afterwards. Her intended market stop was to telephone friends at the pay phone and rendezvous with her boyfriend.

Her younger sister indicated that when the family returned home, things were out of the ordinary. The curtains were drawn, the light that was usually kept on was off, and Tammy’s purse and belongings were spread across the bed. According to her sister, Tammy never went anywhere without her purse.

Tammy Albertson did not return home that evening. Her mother, Penny Jamison began calling friends and other family members to determine if any of them had seen her daughter. Police indicated to her that they could not investigate the disappearance until Tammy had been missing for at least 48 hours. Their eventual search revealed nothing concrete.

Two months later, the Tillamook County Sheriff’s office concluded their investigation by classifying Albertson as a runaway. They cited that she’d been seen in the Portland area, 90 miles away.

Mohler is an unincorporated community of 270 individuals located off of Oregon Route 53 tracing the Nehalem River in Tillamook County. For an entire year, the extensive search yielded nothing until Albertson’s partial remains surfaced in March 1993. They were located in a thickly wooded area named God’s Valley off Highway 53. Her death would be attributed to homicidal violence.

Three subjects of interest emerged in the case including serial killer Bobby Jack Fowler, Tammy’s boyfriend and her stepfather, Jack Jamison. Sufficient evidence was never accumulated to make an arrest. Fowler would be convicted of a double murder three years later in nearby Newport. No direct evidence would attach him to Mohler. He became a suspect in several other murder cases before dying while incarcerated in 2006.

Tammy’s boyfriend was cleared as he was in Portland on the day of her disappearance. Curiously, according to her sister’s account, the two were supposed to spend that day together.

Stepfather Jack Jamison reportedly passed two polygraph exams addressing any role in the disappearance. In the eyes of Tammy’s sister, he was the sole responsible party for her murder.

For nine years, Tammy’s mother petitioned county prosecutors to have her daughter’s remains returned for burial. Prosecutors refused citing the need to keep them as potential future evidence. In 2001, an associate professor at Lewis and Clark University’s Law School read of Penny Jamison’s plight. He brokered an arrangement for the body to be returned. In exchange for the family waiving the right to view Albertson’s autopsy report, prosecutors released the body to the family. Tammy Albertson was subsequently buried in the Alford Cemetery in Harrisburg, Oregon.

Quoted on the release of the body, Jack Jamison commented that he’s had nine years of anger and frustration over the death. He hopes the remains will ease some of his pain. I feel a little relief, some pressure lifting. Tammy’s birth father, Parris Lee Albertson would die at