Talk:Fugitives and Refugees

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This is such a great book. Maybe there should be a list here of similar travel-city-autobio logs? Or a list of strange things that happen(ed) on all the various streetcorners of Portland?

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Sources

• http://www.avclub.com/articles/chuck-palahniuk-fugitives-and-refugees-a-walk-in-p,5518/
• http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/31/books/chapters/0831-1st-palah.html
• http://www.wweek.com/portland/blog-30388-fugitives_and_refugees_10_years_later_an_omnibus.html

--Another Believer _(Talk)

• http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20859-capture_or_asylum.html ---Another Believer _(Talk) 00:28, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Topics

The following are mentioned in the book (crossed out entries mean a Wikipedia article exists for that topic):

• Van Calvin Mannequin Museum
• 24 Hour Church of Elvis
• Western Bigfoot Society
• UFO Museum
• Carriage Room
• Safari Club
• ORGASM party (Oregon Guild Activists of S&M)
• Samtrak, "the World's Smallest Railway"
• Self-Cleaning House (Frances Grace Arnholtz)
• House of Cunt
• Santa Rampage (SantaCon)
• Gracie Hansen, Hoyt Hotel, Walter Cole (Darcelle XV)
• Our Lady of Guadalupe Trappist Abbey
• Clinton Street Theater (Rocky Horror)
• Food: Alibi, Delta Cafe, Fullers Restaurant, Le Happy, Western Culinary Institute (Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Portland), Wild Abandon
• Haunts: Northwest Paranormal Investigations, Portland Memorial (Wilhelm's Portland Memorial Funeral Home), Mount Gleall Castle (Charles H. Piggott), Hoodoo Antiques, Bagdad Theatre, North Portland Library, Cathedral Park, Sauvie Island, Heathman Hotel, Pied Cow Coffeehouse (ghost called "Lydia"), Rose and Raindrop Restaurant (532 SE Grand Ave.; once housed Nickelodeon Theater), Maryhill Museum, Vista Avenue Viaduct, Columbia Gorge Hotel, Powell's Rare Book Room
• Shopping: Grand & Benedict's "Used Annex", Goodwill Outlet Store (McLoughlin), Periodicals and Books Paradise, Rebuilding Center (3625 N. Mississippi), Red, White, and Blue Thrift Store, Wacky Willy's Surplus
• Museums: Kidd Toy Museum, Stark's Vacuum Museum, Movie Madness, Portlandia Exhibit and Portland Visual Chronicle, Hippo and Hardware Trading Company, World's Largest Hairball at Mount Angel Abbey and Seminary, Bob's Red Mill, American Advertising Museum
• Ace of Hearts (swingers club), Dirty Duck Pub, Close Encounters, Club Portland, "Cock Rock" (Rooster Rock State Park), Portland Cacophony Society, Kinkfest, Portland Leather Alliance, Lulu's Pervy Playhouse, M & M Dances, XES, Zippers Down
• Gardens: Mill Ends Park, Classical Chinese Garden, Columbia Gorge Gardens (Columbia Gorge Hotel), Berry Botanic Garden, Elk Rock Gardens of the Bishop's Close, The Grotto, Portland Japanese Garden, Recycled Gardens
• Transit: Rev. Charles Edward Linville and his Our Lady of Eternal Combustion Church ("Jiffy-Marr"), Petroliana (Historical Museum of Early Oil Days), "Spruce Goose" (now at Evergreen Aviation Museum), Portland International Raceway, Samtrak, Willamette Shore Trolley, USS Blueback (SS-581) (now at OMSI)
• Animals: elephants at zoo (Thonglaw, Belle, Packy, Rama, Chendra, Rose-Tu, Hugo), Feral Cat Races at PGE Park, Pug Crawl
• Shanghai tunnels
• Landmarks: WWII B-17 bomber (Lacey's Bomber at 13515 SE McLoughlin), castle at Glen Echo Ave. and SE River Road, Giant Candle (1971), Harvey the Giant Rabbit (at Harvey Marine), Naked Bike Race, Paul Bunyan, Stonehenge, Windmill House (SE 92nd and Mill St.), World's Largest Ten Commandments (SW Dosch Road)

--Another Believer _(Talk) 05:05, 4 November 2013 (UTC)