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Svenson Flea Market
A sign on Marine
Drive near Safeway
caught my eye: “Svenson
Flea Market 9-4 Saturday,
10-4 Sunday.”
I said to myself: “Why
not?” It was Saturday,
10 a.m., cloudy, Spring
Break had just started,
and I didn’t have a single
student paper to grade.
That’s how I par-
ty these days: a Svenson
Àea market to launch Spring
Break.
I drove Highway 30 east,
found the Svenson Grange
Hall, parked the truck, and
walked in the building. I had
no idea what I was looking for.
Something would ¿nd me.
9endors had ¿lled out the
hall pretty well and I made the
rounds admiring the goods.
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Dulcye’s Drink
By RYAN HUME
Last October, Street 14 Café, the 2016
Coast Weekend Readers’ Choice winner for
Best Coffee, began living a double life: Still
a bustling café by day, come Thursday night,
the crew would dim the lights to a soft hon-
ey glow, instantly transforming the space
into a high-end, farm-to-table restaurant.
The weekend dinner service has proved
popular and received rave reviews. And
while the emphasis on local, seasonal in-
gredients determines that the dinner menu
will change often, Street 14 has amassed a
unique cocktail list to accompany its rotat-
ing offerings, many of which showcase local
spirits.
The daytime café also offers a few all-
hours alternatives to a regular cup of joe:
Your usual brunch guests, the Bloody Mary
and the mimosa, are at the table, alongside
a concoction I’d never heard of called Dul-
cye’s Drink.
First introduced by Street 14
as a Flavel Gin and Tonic, this
Directions
Pour the gin and cold-
brewed coffee over ice in a
double old-fashioned glass.
Top with tonic water, garnish
with the orange twist, then
sit and sip.
—Recipe courtesy of Louise Red-
burn, barista at Street 14 Cafe,
Astoria
Matt Love is the author/editor of 14
books, which are available through
all coastal bookstores (except one)
or his website, nestuccaspitpress.com
Located on 193 Marine Dr. in Astoria.
ALTE
503-741-3119
Ingredients
2 ounces Pilot House
Spirits Painted Lady Gin
2 ounces Stumptown
Single Origin Cold Brew
Tonic water, as needed
Orange twist
Ice
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cocktail was renamed in honor of Dulcye
Taylor, owner of Old Town Framing Co. and
president of the Astoria Downtown Historic
District Association, who dug the odd, floral
flavors upon first sip. This peppy take on a
gin and tonic should remain a seasonal fa-
vorite now that Daylight Saving Time is on
and a glimpse of the sun in the evening is no
longer unheard of.
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$2. How this far out book
of folklore and 1970s psy-
chedelica came to rest in a
Grange Hall on the Oregon
Coast proved well beyond
my comprehension.
I read the inside jacket
copy. A few lines seized
me: “…it deals with that
aspect of reality which
most dreamers can see
clearly: the world of mag-
ic delineated by slanting
sunlight, sea-foam, turf-
smoke, and voices of chil-
dren singing in high, lone-
ly meadows. Children and
madmen know it…”
It was the best jacket
copy of a book I have ever
read. I bought the book
and felt relieved I had
something to read over
Spring Break, since this
was Oregon and it would
naturally rain all week and
the Little People would
like that. More rain meant
fewer tourists taking sel-
¿es in the dunes and a
speedier regeneration of
the clearcuts.
The Svenson Flea
Market is held every third
weekend of the month.
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Photo by Matt Love
The Svenson Grange hosts a flea market every third weekend of the month.
I loved the second place gun
dog trophy from 1960, vin-
tage photographs, ancient toys
made from metal, birdhous-
es, aprons and 18-inch dolls
of Frank Sinatra and John
Wayne.
There was easy banter
among the vendors, quiet
country music on the PA, and
the smell of coffee and baked
goods hung in the air.
And then I saw it: a hard-
back book with the bewitch-
ing title of A Field Guide to
the Little People. Something
about the cover illustrations
of gnomes and sprites also be-
guiled me; where had I seen
this style before?
I picked the tome up,
cracked its pages, marveled at
the calligraphy used for chap-
ter headers, and determined
the book was published in
1977. I learned “elf” is a ge-
neric term for Little People
and the book is exactly what
the title advertised²a ¿eld
guide to elves, sprites, spirits,
dwarves, etc. I could take this
book into a fresh clearcut off
Highway 30 and try to iden-
tify my woodland friends,
assuming any remain alive
after a clearcut. I also learned
the book’s illustrator was the
same artist who animated The
Beatles ¿lm <ellow Subma-
rine! Condition: mint. Price:
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