Slabtown Tours

12/13/2024

Oregon Historical Society has a sweet holiday exhibition of the former Santa-land once in the basement of Mier and Frank. Tossed in a few picture at the end from when the kids and I went to get pictures with Santa in the old Days. The exhibit has cut the snowman really hope it was not the original the entire point of the snowman was to see if you were short enough to still ride the monorail.

12/07/2024

Check out the latest fun fact on our website. Ford was decades prior to Zamboni in the ice resurfacing business.

12/07/2024

New Fun Fact - Can something about ice be hot of the press?

No, the Zamboni didn’t break down. This image from The Oregon Daily Journal on January 13, 1918, shows a crew resurfacing the ice at the NW Marshall Street Rink. It highlights an early improvement over previous methods, which relied entirely

12/04/2024

Support a woman owned cat loving small business. We have gift cards for sale and some amazing tours this month. Including two options for A Night with Ghosts on Friday the Thirteenth.

12/03/2024

12/01/2024

Working on a fun fact and its also time to sell some gift cards. Small business Saturday is every Saturday. image courtesy of Portland Buckaroos Hockey Memorabilia website. This rink has been covered in other fun facts because when it opened its doors on Marshall Street in Slabtown it was the largest artificial ice rink in the would.

11/25/2024

I get asked if we will we keep offering the Historic Foster Road tour. Of course year round on the fourth Saturday of the month. The food along the tour route is amazing. The nutcracker stars know where all the good food is. I want to keep coming back this is the part of old Portland that I love.

11/24/2024

The house I wish was haunted.

11/17/2024

The St Johns History walking tour on the third Saturday of each month at 3pm is never the same exact tour twice. Part of that is Mother Nature. Cathedral Park is a must see. If you are making plan to travel to Portland happy to add additional tour dates. For example many shop owners in St Johns work on Saturday so we added some Friday early morning tours in the summer to beat the heat and add opportunities for others. 🍁

11/17/2024

Today’s tour was invited inside to learn more about

11/15/2024

Excited to see an artist painting an amazing window in downtown St Johns just in time for our history tour at 3pm on Saturday. Booking link in our bio. Gremlins are real. I chatted with the artist saying that it would be so cool if he could paint the walls of our ice rink turns out he is painting a rink in Olympia.

11/12/2024

We're thrilled to be featured in the PDX Parent ghost tour guide. However, please note that our tour prices were inaccurately listed as $40 per ticket (price is in fact $30/guest for a 90min tour). We love to cater to the 12-18 age group and operate year-round. Parents can confidently drop off teenagers for our Slabtown Ghost Tour while exploring Trendy 23rd. PDX Parent

Is your child over trick-or-treating but not ready for haunted houses just yet? Portland ghost tours might be the perfect fit. Learn about our favorites!

11/10/2024

Two pictures taken by Tanya Lyn March one yesterday and one from 2011 of the Fairmont Hotel here in Portland Oregon. Built for the 1905 Lewis & Clark Fair.

11/08/2024

A scattering of October Pictures. Ghost tours are now once or twice a week rather than six days a week. If anything the ghosts are even more active in November.

11/05/2024

Systematic training helps boost confidence in performing First Aid and CPR. I’m glad that in my twenty years of leading walking tours my guests have only needed assistance twice once for a nosebleed once when a guest needed a sugar pill/OJ on a Christmas tour. I have maintained CPR first aid training constantly since my first classes in high school. The team work by the tour guests was above and beyond. “Thank you for being so coolheaded in a critical moment.” Ditto to everyone on the tour I’m now mapping what businesses have AED machines along our tours.

11/04/2024

This restaurant is the reason we moved to St. Johns 10 years ago.

10/31/2024

Happy Halloween although around here it seems like it has bern Halloween for two months. Tours are full today but there are spots on Friday and Saturday tours.

10/30/2024

The ponchos from really made a difference for the guests last night. Rumor mill is that there is going to be an amazing costume party at tour start point on Friday night. is the secret neighborhood gas station.