Sapphire Hotel

Www.thesapphirehotel.com As the years went by the area around the hotel grew more affluent and the ladies of the night took jobs as shop girls along the avenue.

The Sapphire Hotel was originally a turn of the century seedy hotel in Portland Oregon inhabited by sailors, travelers and ladies of the night. They rented rooms by the week, night or by the hour and spent long days and evenings in the lobby drinking, laughing, eating, talking and kissing. Aside from entertaining one another you could count on the presence of a mystic, traveling musician or a hand  ...