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Photo by Matt Love
The Shop in South Bend features bins of vintage albums.
A G LIMPSE I NSIDE
An occasional feature by MATT LOVE
The Shop in South Bend
One hour to burn be-
fore a presentation at the
library. I wasn’t sweating
the show because I fi g-
ured no one would attend.
I walked the streets of
South Bend eating a Milky
Way bar and marveled at
the Willapa River’s mean-
dering beauty. I thought
to myself: I could live here
if it was in Oregon.
On Alder Street, I no-
ticed a store, a quasi junk/
antique/thrift kind of joint.
Maybe there was a manu-
al typewriter for sale. I’m
always on the lookout for
these machines for my
classroom (if you want to
donate one, please con-
tact me) so I decided to inves-
tigate.
Two older men hung out-
side the entrance. I went in and
veered to the right, checking out
the vintage rock show posters
and other music memorabilia.
A few seconds later, I found my-
self standing in front of bins of
albums and began thumbing
through them even though I
don’t own a turntable anymore.
This was a superb and ob-
viously curated vintage record
collection and heavy on the
double live album glory years of
the 1970s. My hands drifted to a
Ten Years After LP, “Cricklewood
Green.” I’d never heard it before
but I was about to, I knew that.
One of the men from outside
came in, and we struck up
a conversation. His name is
Bob and The Shop in South
Bend, as it’s offi cially called,
is his shop, and it’s a fi ne one
indeed for collectibles, an-
tiques, and rock ’n’ roll vinyl
(sadly, no cassettes.)
Bob put “Cricklewood
Green” on the turntable, and
Alvin Lee’s hot guitar licks
soon started fi ring on all
cylinders. Man, do I miss this
kind of big party music with
smoking solos and utterly
free of irony! Bob told me he
gets most of his records from
estate sales, or people bring
them in because they don’t
want to “hassle” with them
anymore. He also told me he
has regular hipster custom-
ers who make the trek from
wherever hipsters originate.
I bought the double-re-
cord set “California Jam II”
for a friend and an ancient
Hamm’s beer light for my-
self. I walked out of The Shop
feeling pretty rock ’n’ roll and
ready for whatever the li-
brary gig would present me.
And as it turned out, that was
a lot.
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books, including a detective novel called
“The Great Birthright.” His books are
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Slusher
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noun
1. slang. an unfl attering
term that has been applied to
counterfeiters, drunkards and
prostitutes at various times. In
the U.S. Navy, the term refers
to someone who will casually
loan out money at an extreme-
ly high interest rate. The term
also has a less seedy, occu-
pational history that refers to
specifi c jobs in the mining and
automotive industries
2. Harley J. Slusher (1888-
1942): sheriff of Clatsop Coun-
ty from 1923 to 1933
3. Hotel de Slusher: arch.
slang. informal name given
by prisoners to the Clatsop
County Jail, currently the Ore-
gon Film Museum, during the
reign of Sheriff Slusher
Origin:
Slusher is an Americanization
of either the German surname
Schlüsser (vars. Slosser, Shlusher
among others) or the Polish
Slusarz. The German surname
is thought to derive from one
of two sources: the Old High
German sliozen, a verb meaning
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Photo by Joshua Bessex
Clatsop County Sheriff Tom Bergin walks into the old Clatsop County Jail, which is now the
location of the Oregon Film Museum. The old jail was nicknamed “Hotel de Slusher” by
prisoners during the reign of Sheriff Slusher from 1923 to 1933.
“ASTORIA, Or., Aug 19—Harley J.
Slusher, who was elected sheriff of Clat-
sop county at the recent recall election,
assumed the duties of the position today.”
“to lock,” which would place the
name’s ancestry in the occupation
of a locksmith, or from the Middle
High German schloss, meaning
“castle,” which, through tradition,
would be applied to someone
working in a castle. The Polish
Slusarz also refers to a locksmith.
Either way the name is not
related to slush, which arrives
in English from Scandinavian
sources.
It is not known who fi rst
quipped the sardonic nickname
for the county jail and if they were
aware or not of the implicit irony
of referring to the jail as “The
Hotel of the Locksmith.”
—“Sheriff Takes Offi ce,” The Sunday Ore-
gonian, Aug. 20, 1922, P. 3
“But yesterday—for the fi rst time, I
sat in a jail cell, on the inside, and looked
out at the world, and rose colored glass-
es would have made no diff erence in
the rain-drenched drab outlook visible
from an upper window of the Hotel de
Slusher.”
—Dave Young, “Jailed Reporter Tells of
Slusher Hotel Life,” Cumtux, Vol. 35, No. 1, Win-
ter 2015, P. 42, reproduced from Astoria Budget,
Sept. 26, 1930, P. 1
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