Offbeat Oregon History

Photo Provided/Bryce Buchanan-ODOT

Around 10 p.m. on the night of Saturday, March 19, 1932 – just a few months before Prohibition was ended – four vehicles rolled furtively into the little Coast Range town of Toledo.
A big, important-looking sedan led the caravan, followed by two large trucks and finally a sleek Buick coupe. In the coupe, two men sat cradling machine guns.
The nine men in those vehicles weren’t tourists. They’d come to Toledo…