[1] The interior was decorated with propaganda posters reminiscent of George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) and stripe-painted rifles.

According to Willamette Week's Andi Prewitt, Victory offered "solid, affordable cocktails alongside warm and filling dishes like the perennial favorite spaetzle".

On June 13, 2019, management unexpectedly confirmed plans to close of Facebook, posting: "It's the last nights of Victory my friends.

Laos, who decided to move on to "new and more creative adventures",[1][8] said of the closure: When I was about five years old, growing up in a small town in Arizona, an old Obi-Wan Kenobi-type sage stopped me on my tricycle and he told me this: 'Son, if you want to make it big in this world... think about serving absinthe milkshakes to people while playing Dr. Hook music videos in the background.'

I guess the moral of the story is this: Don't listen to strange old men wandering the sidewalks in their bathrobes... Portland sucks and is awesome at the same time.

[10] Liz Crain included Victory in the list of "go to cheese service spots" in her Food Lover's Guide to Portland (2014),[11] and Christian DeBenedetti included the bar in the Oregon portion of his 2016 book The Great American Ale Trail: The Craft Beer Lover's Guide to the Best Watering Holes in the Nation.