THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2015
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OUT OF THE BLUE
NEVER SAY DIE IN ASTORIA
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n March, Cindy Munga and her husband Karima (pictured inset,
bottom) were cleaning out a nook in the basement and found a
photo album belonging to the family of Jack V. Burns (pictured in-
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Historical Society.
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V. Burns, she came across Cindy’s blog (OurShabbyNest.com) post
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so they could exchange information.
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the time she became interested in her family’s history, all of the rel-
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bum to the Historical Society rather than destroy it. Because of them,
the museum now has another bit of Astoria’s history to share with the
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pieces that were missing from my grandmother’s family history.
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about the deterioration of the house that once belonged to
Capt. George Conrad Flavel on the corner 15th Street and
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reputed cost of $4,000 (about $114,000 now) by Erick Gus-
tafson, it is about 4,500 square feet (without the attic).
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Florence and her adult children, Harry and Mary Louise,
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a complete restoration, thanks to new owner Greg Newen-
hof, co-owner of City Lumber Company, who bought the
property in May.
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already workmen bustling around most days, and already
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notably a new roof and chimney repairs. One can almost hear
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restore it, but wasn’t sure what it looked like. Astoria’s archi-
tectural historian John Goodenberger came to the rescue,
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late 1990s. Now Greg hopes to rebuild it next year.
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BEACHCOMBING NOTES
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nonplussed but tickled when he got quite a surprise recent-
ly, in the form of a fan letter and photo (shown) from the Hein-
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storia is once again in the news, but not the way you’d expect
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er is pictured, and you can listen to all of the songs on their website.
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ORZV³:KHQ0DULDQDV7UHQFK¶VOHDGVLQJHUJosh Ramsay (pictured
upper left) came up with the title ‘Astoria,’ he saw the album as a
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‘The Goonies,’ which is set in the seemingly doomed town of Asto-
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Roger Rocka and Jan Mitchell wrote to the Ear. Emma, by the
way, is their Newfoundland dog, and is pictured, inset.
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(walking away), Richard Barber and Geanna Harrison.
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more mega-yacht to ponder, Popular Mechanics reports (http://
tinyurl.com/SyachtA). Sailing Yacht A DND :KLWH 3HDUO ZDV
launched recently for a series of sea trials in Germany. One of world’s
largest (and possibly ugliest) sailing yachts, the boat belongs to Rus-
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is pictured, courtesy of Popular Mechanics.
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tons, is operated by means of a black glass panel touchscreen on
the bridge, and is capable of up to 24 mph with its combination die-
sel-electric engine. Apparently no one’s seen it under sail yet.
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found in Seaside, and nine others were scattered along the
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near the surface, and are often mistaken for sharks while do-
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up to 10 feet in the air and land with a splash in an attempt to
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Meanwhile, when you’re at the beach looking for inter-
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ted a Google Street View Car, like the one pictured, pulling
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single seamless 360-degree panoramic photo.
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