Ep #10 – “Portland Exposé” (1957)

Travel back to a time when men were wiseguys, women were "B-girls," and vice came in the form of flipperless pinball machines. In the mostly forgotten noir film "Portland Exposé," based on a pictorial spread about true-life vice in Portland's in a 1957 issue of LIFE Magazine, you get all of that, plus Frank Gorshin ("The Riddler" in the 60s Batman TV series) as a child predator, and some amazing shots of Portland in the late 1950s. Don't be a hophead - take a listen. To see a map of all the locations from "Portland Exposé" -- and from all the other "Portland at the Movies" movies, click here! Locations seen in the film: Downtown from PGE Park area HillVilla Restaurant, now the Chart House restaurant on Terwilliger HillVilla Restaurant w/ Ross Island Bridge in Background (currently Chart House) More of downtown from PGE Park Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, NW Everett and Trinity Rose Garden Unknown (please drop us a line if you know this location!) Portland Towers Portland Towers Entrance "Kelly Hotel," 11 NW Trinity Pl. Unknown Bridge with Inexplicable Telephone in the Middle of it Portland Labor Temple, NE MLK and Holladay NE Hassalo St. (Portland Labor Temple in the background) Union Station Union Station Interior (Iron Horse Restaurant in background) Exterior Union Station, looking south down NW 6th Portland waterfront (now Tom McCall Park), with Oregon Journal/KPOJ/Public Market building on river NW Davis, between 11th and 12th (Portland Armory in background) "Steel Bridge Cafe," NW Glisan and 2nd Ave. PDX Airport Neon Sign PDX Tarmac PDX United Terminal The Town Club 2115 SW Salmon The post Ep #10 – “Portland Exposé” (1957) appeared first on Portland at the Movies.