Tiny's Tavern

12/25/2021

Merry Christmas🎄

09/14/2021

The smile on his face says it all❤️❤️He loves his mom.

09/12/2021

Cheering on mom! Go team Tiny’s !🚜Pedal tractor races!

09/26/2020

Read the post below this picture😀It has some great History.

09/26/2020

HISTORY OF TINY’S TAVERN. Thank you Tom Thomas Ewing

Bear with me. This is a long post but I’m dealing with a question that consumes many of us in Mt. Angel, the subject of potluck conversations and barroom brawls. The question: is Tiny’s Tavern is the oldest site continuously used as a tavern in Oregon? There are many “pretenders” (my term): Huber’s Restaurant in Portland claims ancestry back to 1879. But its current location is its fourth. Doesn’t count. Astoria City’s website describes the Portway Tavern as the “oldest watering hole in the oldest settlement west of the Rockies.” Small problem: It was built in 1923 (there are several other taverns in Oregon that date, or at least claim to date, to the early 1900s). It’s out. Which brings me to the Pioneer Saloon in Paisley. Its marquee sign states a founding date of 1883. Some anecdotal evidence in support. Was it used as a tavern continuously after? Who knows?

Which brings me back to Tiny’s Tavern. I shall rely on the historical record. It claims to have been “established” in 1942. Its name, yes. But it was established as a tavern site long before. Study the attached photograph (courtesy of the Mt. Angel Historical Society). On the left is “Mathias Butala General Merchandise” (the current site of Randall Adams’s office adjoining Butsch Insurance). Now look three stores to the right. One is a “saloon”. That is the site of Tiny’s Tavern.

So, what is the photograph’s date? A great question from my two Facebook friends. In 1891 Butala had purchased some lots in the Palmer Addition, one of them the present Saalfeld House and immediately began construction. Presumably at the same time or soon thereafter he built his merchandise store. Butala was Mt. Angel’s City Treasurer but in 1899 suddenly departed his position under suspicious circumstances. A somewhat later photograph (date uncertain) shows it was still a general merchandise store but Butala’s name has been painted over. Now look further to the photo’s end. That was Mt. Angel’s City Hall (where Old Stone coffee shop and Bochsler’s Hardware stand). It was built in 1897 but then moved in 1904. Thus with reasonable confidence we can date the photograph between 1897 and 1899.

But, my two FB friends ask: That tells us the site was a tavern between those three years. Impressive historical sleuthing! However it doesn’t speak to the site’s earliest use as a tavern. That is correct. I do know that all later photographs of Main Street in the Historical Society’s possession show a tavern under different names except for the Prohibition era (in Oregon 1916-1933) when it was at least for a time used as a confectionary shop. I need to discover Tiny’s earliest beginning. This will require quite a bit of research at the Marion County’s Assessor’s Office, not easy to use for me anyway. Presently the office is closed to the public. But I shall see this project through and then report. Oh dear, what I sacrifice for Tiny’s Tavern.

I feel a panegyric coming.
[Commentator: Please Lord. Spare us another goofy poem. Please!!]

03/31/2020

Finally got the old restored sign back up. Like Tom Ewing say’s it’s Mt. Angels own Eiffel Tower 🍺 Can’t wait to see you all again. Stay safe!

01/19/2020

These cups get around!

01/19/2020

11/05/2019

It is spring 1096. The monk Oderic, stirred by the words of Pope Urban II announcing a great Crusade, joins tens of thousands of joyous pilgrims on their march to Jerusalem. He encounters a company of “flagellants” pretending to scourge one another to extort donations from the citizens of every city through which it passes. But Oderic will soon confront worse, much worse—the massacre of Jews. And he will risk his life to save them.

09/13/2019

Thanks Greg K. For the photo.

09/11/2019

We have O’Fest Sausage!
Friday - Sunday Biscuits and Gravy & Tiny’s famous Bloody Mary’s