I'm sitting in the basement of the Lodge Co-op, sinking into the rips of a couch, when enters the ethereal Overpade. Immediately there is an electric pulse that zings around the room, and the band ...
Clifford Thompson, “self-acclaimed world’s tallest man,” visited Vancouver on Nov. 30, 1949. Thompson, whose height was stated as 8-feet, 7-inches, had recently moved to Portland from Wisconsin. The ...