There have been many books written about Elkins and the Portland mob, but probably the most famous version of it is a movie called Portland Expose made in 1957
Have you heard about the seedy, sordid history of the Portland underworld? I am a bit of a history buff, not because it’s my job, just because I love it. I read lots of books, and spend a lot of time doing deep-dive research on the computer. Between the libraries and Google I always have more information than I can possibly handle. After moving to Portland, Oregon a few months ago, I started to focus my reading on local history, and found a treasure trove of fascinating stories. In the 1940s and 1950s, Portland was a notorious hub of criminal activity. Under the stern hand of a local gangster named Jim Elkins, Portland was the center of a massive underground criminal organization that went up and down the seaboard. Elkins drew a lot of scrutiny on a national level for Portland, but the funny thing is that it didn’t seem to hurt the city’s image at all. That same period of criminal activity was also a huge boom in the local economy of Portland. There have been many books written about Elkins and the Portland mob, but probably the most famous version of it is a movie called Portland Expose made in 1957. It is not an easy movie to track down, but anyone interested in Portland history should check it out. Soon after Elkins is when the hippies migrated to Portland from down south, and brought with them the cannabis that helped make this city famous in later years. Of course cannabis isn’t a criminal offense in Portland, Oregon, but it used to be.
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