Display Advertisement from the Sherwood News Sheet 1918.

It is said that Saturday night at the Star Dance Hall featured at least one fist fight rolling down the long flight of stairs that led from the second floor to the street. The ground floor featured a skating rink that had been added later. It takes some effort of the imagination to understand that there was a time when young people came from Portland to Sherwood to have a good time, instead of the other way round. One incentive was the absence of so called "blue laws" in Sherwood, forbidding the sale of liquor on weekends. The fact that Sherwood was an escape from the Big City received no objection from the leaders of Sherwood: the town that liked to promote itself as America's answer to Sherwood Forest. Indeed, as in the forests depicted by Shakespeare, the trail through Sherwood could lead to a happy conclusion. The well known Woody Hite Band originated from the dance halls of Sherwood and Middleton. Don Hite has a very clear memory of placing his fingers on the frigid piano keys during his debut at Star Hall. Don and his brother Woody eventually took their band all over the Pacific Northwest, and the Woody Hite band is still a hot item in Old Sherwood Town as well as in Portland.