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Meet the great-great-grandmother guarding Oregon City’s basement speakeasy
Meet the great-great-grandmother guarding Oregon City’s basement speakeasy
Meet the great-great-grandmother guarding Oregon City’s basement speakeasy

Published on: 03/20/2026

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The Hardware Store speakeasy is accessed from behind a lifesize painting of Olive Sauer, the great-great-grandmother of co-owner Ashley Hunt.The Hardware Store is Oregon City's basement speakeasy.The speakeasy bar, the Hardware Store, is named in homage to Fredrick's Hardware, which called the space home for decades.The Hardware Store hosts live music every Saturday.Olive Sauer's bar in an undated photo provided by her family.The Hardware Store speakeasy is accessed from behind a lifesize painting of Olive Sauer, the great-great-grandmother of co-owner Ashley Hunt.TheTheThe Wigwam, named after Olive's 1930s burlesque club, is a Vieux Carré, a New Orleans rye whiskey cocktail served smoked.The WhiskeyThe Hardware Store is Oregon City's basement speakeasy.The top floor of the former Oddfellows Hall in Oregon City is now home to the Arc Light wedding venue.The menu from the Hive Social can be ordered at the bar downstairs.The Hardware Store is Oregon City's basement speakeasy.The Hardware Store hosts live music every Saturday.Three businesses now call the former Oddfellows Lodge home: the Arc Light wedding venue, the Hive Social restaurant and coffee shop, and the Hardware Store basement speakeasy.Ashley Hunt, owner of the Hive Social and the Hardware Store in Oregon City.Ashley Hunt, owner of the Hive Social and the Hardware Store in Oregon City.Ashley Hunt in the bourbon nook of the Hardware Store basement speakeasy.Ashley Hunt in the bourbon nook of the Hardware Store basement speakeasy.The coffee shop of Hive Social.The top floor of the former Oddfellows Hall in Oregon City is now home to the Arc Light wedding venue.The top floor of the former Oddfellows Hall in Oregon City is now home to the Arc Light wedding venue.The top floor of the former Oddfellows Hall in Oregon City is now home to the Arc Light wedding venue.

A life-size portrait of a 1930s flapper woman doubles as the entrance to the Hardware Store, Oregon City’s not-so-secret speakeasy bar.

News Source : https://www.oregonlive.com/dining/2026/03/meet-the-great-great-grandmother-guarding-oregon-citys-basement-speakeasy.html

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