Slabtown Tours

01/21/2025

You don’t want to miss the Foster Rd. Tour this Saturday offered once a month on the 4th Saturday. Amazing food friendly business owners. Free parking. Architecture that will surprise you when you’re not just zipping along. All our tours are dog friendly. Starts at .coffee this tour exists because invited tour guide Dr. March to collaborate which led to connections with . Preservation of buildings like now the home of are not alone now that we have the restoration of two historic theaters by

01/19/2025

Started at Nob Hill working on the tour -lucky that Vera Katz house is gorgeous. The history of St Johns was like hanging out with long lost friends same energy continues onto the Murder Mayhem tour.

01/11/2025

We had a lovely book club meeting with Dr. Tracy Prince sharing with us about Notable Women of Portland. Out next book is Blue Moon Over Thurman Street by we meet at 6:30pm the second Thursday of the month at Friendly House later each month there is a community wide event a walking tour a museum exhibition or a movie etc. Looking forward to the 2018 documentary

01/05/2025

Working on a number of projects. For March 2024 all of our Nob Hill tours will focus on the women of Nob Hill. We also had to come up with a new starting location. Our dear coffee shop Anna Bannanas closed after three decades. Flexibility is key.

12/26/2024

Our first Christmas with Hotie. Picked up this charming accessory at .pdx adopted this charmer at Thankful to have time family and for all the amazing people we have met on our tours this year. And yes our walking tours are dog friendly.

12/23/2024

One of our tour guests took us to see her pottery studio. Everyone was dressed for rain!

12/21/2024

It’s been a busy week for tour guide Dr. Tanya March. So far six guests are booked for the 3pm history of St. Johns tour. The seasonal balence between tours and the ice rink gig have allowed me to follow my passions.

Tanya March is an expert at creating great ice for skating. And yes, she's met Tonya Harding.

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.