PORTLAND, Ore. -- Even the promise of a walk through the city's seedy underbelly delivers more charm than menace in this city.
On the new Underground Portland walking tour, guide David Schargel takes visitors to Portland's Chinatown, down to the waterfront and through the streets and alleys where bar dwellers were once kidnapped onto sea voyages, and brothels sheltered sailors and gamblers.
Today, the same streets are home to meth addicts, late-night revelers and transients, Schargel tells his crowd of about dozen on a recent afternoon.
August 17, 2006
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