By Jeffrey Stone ::   This week marks the birthday of one of Portland’s most notorious gangsters: James Butler “Big Jim” Elkins. Born in Texas on March 13, 1901, Jim Elkins spent the first 30 years of his life as a bootlegger and drug smuggler. In the late 1930s he moved to Oregon. FromContinue Reading “Big Jim” Elkins | Gangsters, Unions and Pinball