Hoyt Hotel

The hotel was built in 1912 at the southwest corner of Hoyt and 6th Street, directly facing Portland's Union Station.

Harvey Dick, part-owner of Columbia Steel, purchased the Hoyt Hotel in 1941 primarily as housing for war-time steel workers.{{citation needed|date=June 2013}} In 1962, he renovated the hotel and added the Barbary Coast Lounge and Roaring 20s Room, a nightclub that attracted celebrities such as Johnny Carson, Duke Ellington,{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B9b-fWBgzVQC&pg=PA413| title=Duke's Diary: The Life of Duke Ellington| page=413| first=Ken| last=Vail| access-date=June 3, 2013| year=2002| publisher=Scarecrow Press| isbn=978-0810841192}} and Anne Francis.{{cite news| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=19720803&id=h91VAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5eADAAAAIBAJ&pg=3913,514895|title=Hoyt Hotel closes| access-date=June 3, 2013| date=August 3, 1972| work=Eugene Register-Guard| volume=105| number=285| page=3A| issn=0739-8557}}{{cite news| url=http://www.kgw.com/lifestyle/Gracie-Hansen-musical-honors-NW-legend-150104205.html| title='Gracie Hansen' musical honors Portland legend| access-date=June 3, 2013| date=May 3, 2012| first=Cathy| last=Marshall| work=KGW News| location=Portland, Oregon| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://archive.today/20130629143445/http://www.kgw.com/lifestyle/Gracie-Hansen-musical-honors-NW-legend-150104205.html| archive-date=June 29, 2013}}

Dick closed the hotel on August 2, 1972, after several years of declining business; the Roaring 20s Room closed three weeks earlier. The building was demolished in 1977, the same year as Harvey Dick's death.{{citation needed|date=June 2013}}

As of 2014 the block which the hotel occupied is a fenced, gravel-covered empty lot sometimes used for construction staging, and is contaminated.{{cite web |url=http://www.deq.state.or.us/lq/ECSI/ecsidetail.asp?seqnbr=3103 |title=Environmental Cleanup Site Information (ECSI) Database Site Summary Report - Details for Site ID 3103, PDC Block R |publisher=State of Oregon: Department of Environmental Quality}}

Walter Cole, the Portland resident and female impersonator better known as Darcelle XV, recalled the Roaring 20s Room in Sharon Knorr's book, Just Call Me Darcelle. According to Darcelle, the ladies' restroom had a full-time harpist; the men's restroom included a {{Convert|12|ft|adj=on}} long trough urinal decorated like a rock grotto, featuring miniature forest animals that served as targets. Darcelle recalled, "[There was also a] life-sized replica of Fidel Castro... If a gentleman could hit that open mouth, lights would flash, sirens would go off and a huge waterfall would flush the entire urinal."{{cite news| url=http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-16953-walter_cole_just_call_me_darcelle.html| title=Walter Cole Just Call Me Darcelle| access-date=June 3, 2013| date=February 16, 2011| first=Kelly| last=Clarke| work=Willamette Week| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002132725/http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-16953-walter_cole_just_call_me_darcelle.html| archive-date=October 2, 2013}}

Harvey Dick bought a replica of a locomotive from the movie studio 20th Century Fox and used it for the décor of the Barbary Coast Lounge.{{citation |last=LaMarche |first=Bill |title='Petticoat Junction' star Linda Kaye Henning to Attend Oregon Zoo's Train Party |url=http://www.zandavisitor.com/newsarticle-1541-Petticoat_Junction_star_Linda_Kaye_Henning__to_Attend_Oregon_Zoos_Train_Party/ |date=May 30, 2009 |access-date=October 8, 2015 |archive-date=May 10, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170510110309/http://www.zandavisitor.com/newsarticle-1541-Petticoat_Junction_star_Linda_Kaye_Henning__to_Attend_Oregon_Zoos_Train_Party/ |url-status=dead }}

The replica was later used to film scenes in and around the locomotive in the television series Petticoat Junction in exchange for a prominent screen credit at the end of each episode: "Train furnished by Barbary Coast, Hoyt Hotel, Portland, Oregon."{{cite journal |last=Krell |first=David |title=All Aboard the Hooterville Cannonball! Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of 'Petticoat Junction' (Part 2 of 5) |url=http://davidkrell.com/uncategorized/all-aboard-the-hooterville-cannonball-celebrating-the-50th-anniversary-of-petticoat-junction-part-2-of-5/ |date=September 23, 2013 |website=David Krell Blog| access-date=October 31, 2020}}{{cite web |title=Emma Sweeny History |url=http://www.drhs315.org/blog/projects/emma-sweeney-2/history/ |website=Durango Railroad Historical Society |access-date=October 8, 2015 |archive-date=October 12, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151012001131/http://www.drhs315.org/blog/projects/emma-sweeney-2/history/ |url-status=dead }}

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• [http://lostoregon.org/2008/09/09/the-barbary-coast-at-the-hoyt-hotel/ "The Barbary Coast at the Hoyt Hotel"], Lost Oregon (John Chilson, 2008)
• [http://www.stumptownblogger.com/2010/04/the-roaring-20s-room-at-the-hoyt-hotel.html "The Roaring 20s Room at the Hoyt Hotel], StumptownBlogger.com (2010)

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