333 SW Park Ave 

[Formerly Rage]  503-242-2899

Years: 1998 -1999

Ad in the 1998 Mr./Miss Gay Program and same ad in 1998 Portland Gay Pride Program

MISFITS

Per email from Lanny Swerdlow on 10/9/2021: “It was then bought out and operated as Misfits for a couple years and then by Scooter (can't think of his last name) as Scooter's I believe until just a few years ago.”

Left: Ad in Just Out August 21, 1998

Right: Ad in The Yellow Pages – through November 1999 page 1194

citations & references:

• First listed in Damron Address Book 1999, under Night Clubs with connotations (*MW, D, S, 18+, YC) between Oak and Stark.

• Cited in the Community News, June 1999 under PORTLAND – Misfits Café & Discotheque – all ages – no alcohol page 30

• There is a quote by Lanny "You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person has got to believe in evolution." -- Richard Dawkins, in Lanny Swerdlow, "My Sort Interview with Richard Dawkins" (Portland, Oregon, 1996) per https://truedinos.webnode.com/evolution/quotes-against-creation/