citations & references:

• City of Portland Directory, page 2281, 1940 – Grand Oasis Tavern located at 526 SW 4th Ave 

• City of Portland Directory, page 230, 1964 – Grand Oasis Tavern located at 526 SW 4th 

• Possibly 1980/81 Listed on Darcelle’s “PATRONS – Round Trip to Lake Tahoe – Courtesy of ‘HELLO RENO” Miss Terri, Darcelle XV, and Directors Furniture] 

• Cited in Counseling Center for Sexual Minorities Referral and Resources Book Revised April 1, 1980, under Men’s Bars with the note: Mature crowd, beer, and wine, no dancing, food Thursday, cheap beer. 

• Cited in Gay Areas Private Telephone Directory, Pacific Northwest Page 15 Winter 1981-82 

• Listed in Damron Address Book/Address Guide 1982 * - popular, (Cruisy) (C-AH)(Opens – 7 am) 

• In the Cascade Voice newspaper September 1982 issue, page 22 - a large ad was taken out, “The Grand Oasis is closing HELP US FLUSH THE TOILET

• Listed in Damron Address Book/Address Guide 1983 “aka The Last Resort” 

• An article in the Cascade Voice, January 4, 1983 - Myrna, an Old Town Legend by Renee La Chance: “A large number of people are familiar with Myrna from the years she spent tending bar at the Grand Oasis, which, only four months ago, joined the sewer system of flushed Gay bars in Portland. She started working part-time and gradually worked into tending bar full-time.”

• Not listed in Damron Address Book/Address Guide 1984-1989 

• Per papers that called Chronology of Portland’s Gay Bars – author unknown, “(The Last Resort) 1979-1983)” 

• The Grand Oasis Tavern was one location in what was referred to as “The Dirty Triangle,” the other two points being The Other Inn and Dahl & Penne’s. No doubt this area got its name from the close proximity of three rather popular bars which attracted both the drags and the leather crowd. 

• Per book A Curious and Peculiar People page 199, “Flushed the toilet..” Per The Oregonian, the reason it closed was it was in the same block as the Blue Mouse Theatre. The whole block was to be torn down and a 483-space parking garage was to be built. Other names associated was Dugos, The Old Towne Legend, the Rising Moon.