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Welcome back to another dive into some sketchy Portland history, targeted specifically on one little spot in the city. This time around it's the long gone Lotus Cafe (and Cardroom) and Hotel. Originally the Hotel Albion when it was erected in 1906, this simple structure, demolished in 2018, has a long history of tragic, criminal and even unknown history. For example, it's heavily believed the upstairs hotel was a brothel during the Great Depression, but it has never been fully proven (just the stuff of stories and rumors).
In this video I discuss what is known about about the Lotus from the sad lives led by those in the hotel, through the interesting practices conducted in the bar and cardroom downstairs, and ultimately up to the crimes and closure of the hotel in the 1970s.
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