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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 2017
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IN ONE EAR • ELLEDA WILSON
MEET MOUTH
K, die hard Goonie fans, this one’s for you: Corey Feld-
man (“Mouth” in the movie) is performing at Dante’s in
Portland at 7 p.m. Sunday, June 18, with his all-girl band, The
Angels, as part of his nationwide sprint in “Corey’s Heavenly
Tour: Angelic 2 The Tour” this summer. He is pictured from his
website, http://coreyfeldman.net. You can hear their music at
www.angelic2thecore.com
Corey and his band took quite a media roasting when they
appeared on the Today show last fall performing “Go 4 It,” with
Rolling Stone even calling his appearance “bizarre.” Be that as it
may, his fans still love him.
On that note, you can buy tickets at http://tinyurl.com/corey-
PDX, and here’s the deal: Just to see the show, it’s $15. If you
want to get in on the Meet & Greet and Photo Op, that’ll cost you
an extra $75. Which is really a pretty good deal, as such things
go. Why not Go 4 It?
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GET SOME GOONIES NOSTALGIA
f you need some immediate Goonies nostalgia, check out this
2015 article from Willamette Week, “Okay! I’ll talk!” with
local people reminiscing about their experiences when the movie
was filmed in Astoria and Cannon Beach (http://tinyurl.com/
goontalk). There’s only one caveat: If you’re adverse to salty lan-
guage, this article isn’t going to be your cup of tea.
The short stories give an intriguing, and often amusing peek
into dealing with the Hollywood invasion on a person-to-per-
son level. For example, Dave Johnson, a retired Astoria Police
Department officer, told of chatting with John Astin (star of
“The Addams Family”), father of Sean Astin (Mikey Walsh),
near the Goonie house.
“School let out, and a whole crowd of kids came out,” John-
son said. “There was over 100 there in a matter of a minute or
two. One girl stood in front of us and said, ‘Damn, not one movie
star anywhere.’ I looked at Mr. Astin, and he said, ‘Don’t ever
get old.’”
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AROUND TOWN
idbits from 133 years ago in the Tuesday, April 8, 1884 edi-
tion of The Daily Morning Astorian:
• The question of proper sewerage is fast becoming an
important one in this city. Built as the city partly is, over tide
water, there should be very little trouble in this respect, but we
are likely to be disastrously reminded of remissness this sum-
mer unless proper means are soon furnished to dispose of waste
and garbage.
A removal of the planks in many of our streets will ventilate
sights and smells that are worthy of the worst slums in New York
or Philadelphia. The attention of our city council is directed to
the urgent need of sanitary measures being immediately taken.
• Major Rodgers at Fort Canby (now Cape Disappointment)
objects to any more families settling on the military reservation
there.
• An unsuccessful attempt was made last Sunday night to bur-
glarize the store of Wm. Loeb & Co., but the thieves, though
they gained entrance through a window in the rear, were unable
to find anything of sufficient value to be missed.
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A BIT OF BAYOCEAN
ne of the most fascinating towns on the North Coast
doesn’t even exist any more. It’s Bayocean, otherwise
known as the Atlantic City of the West Coast, built on a
4-mile spit on Tillamook Bay.
By 1914, 600 lots had been sold, and the Salt Water Arti-
ficial Surf Natatorium (pictured) opened, featuring a heated
pool, wave machine, balconies for spectators, bands to sere-
nade the swimmers and a movie theater. Streets, businesses
and houses popped up quickly. The natatorium is pictured,
courtesy of PDXHistory.com (http://tinyurl.com/histpix).
The residents demanded that a jetty be installed on Tilla-
mook Bay, and even though the Army Corps of Engineers
recommended two be built, but the townspeople were only
willing to pay for one. The jetty changed the currents, and
Bayocean soon started eroding away.
In 1939, the natatorium vanished. Bayocean was bull-
dozed in 1956, and in 1960, the last remaining house fell
into the ocean. When you see the Bayocean sign now on
Oregon Highway 131, all you’ll see beyond it is a barren
spit extending out into the bay. (Ironically, a second jetty
was completed in 1979, and the north shore of Bayocean has
been rebuilding ever since.)
A recent post on Jerry Sutherland’s Bayocean blog,
“Crabapple Park” (http://tinyurl.com/bayocrab) notes that
former Bayocean resident Perry Reeder (he lived there as a
child in the 1940s) and his family have been excavating out
on the spit, and have unearthed a small section of the resort’s
original sidewalk.
It must have been no easy feat, since the spit has moved
considerably east since Bayocean’s heyday. For example,
the natatorium and pavilion, which were right on the beach,
would now be 600 feet out at sea. As it turns out, Perry used
some crabapple trees he remembered — which had some-
how survived Bayocean’s demise — as a landmark to guide
him where to dig.
There are detailed directions on how to get to the spot
on the blog, but the writer adds this caveat: “If you find the
hole, be very careful as you approach it. The barrier is flimsy
and sand is — of course — unstable. Certainly, do not go
down into it.”
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A LONG HAUL
SUPER ELK
ell, a local Facebook post has popped up, in, of all places,
the news on KSL in Salt Lake City. RJ Marx of Gearhart,
editor of the Seaside Signal and Cannon Beach Gazette, posted a
short video clip of a bull elk playing with a blue tarp in his yard.
The tarp got stuck on an antler, and the elk took off at a gallop,
looking like he had a superhero cape streaming behind him. A
newscaster at KSL thought it was a hoot. A screen shot from RJ’s
clip is shown.
In case you’re worried, all is well with super-elk. “He man-
aged to extricate himself just a few houses up the street,” RJ’s
wife, Eve, wrote. “I retrieved the tarp. They were all grazing
peacefully 10 minutes later up on the golf course.”
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WATCH SAM PAINT
ove art? Want to watch an artist create a painting? Check out
Sam Lensen-Callas’ YouTube channel, http://tinyurl.com/
SamPaints. He sets up a camera to stream live video, starts work-
ing, and you can look over his shoulder for hours. Literally.
Sam is the son of former Astorian Perry Callas; both of them
now live in Salem. “I try to get to Astoria as often as I can,” Perry
wrote, “because I still have friends there, and I always miss Bow-
picker fish and chips!”
“I use several different methods for creating art,” Sam
explained. “Airbrush, acrylic and oil paints, as well as LEDs,
sculpture and so many other things.” To see what he’s working
on next, you’ll need to subscribe to his YouTube channel, which
is free. If Sam gets enough subscribers, eventually it will help pay
for his hepatitis C medication.
“If you know anyone with similar challenges,” Perry said,
“you’ll know that it’s hard these days to get treatment unless
you’re at death’s door, and in my opinion, that would be the
kind of torture we’d all like to avoid. Thank you for any and all
subscriptions.”
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KEEP ON TRUCKIN’
n last week’s column there was a story about Clatsop
Indians’ rules for dividing up a beached whale — a
fairly regular occurrence a few centuries ago, apparently.
And, when Lewis and Clark were staying at Fort Clatsop,
they went to see one for themselves.
According to LewisandClarkTrail.com (http://tinyurl.
com/corpswhale), some Clatsops came to trade with the
Corps of Discovery in January 1806. One of the items
they brought along was some whale blubber, taken from
a beached whale in Cannon Beach that belonged to the
Killamucks.
After cooking the blubber, the corps found it to be quite
edible, and happily different from their usual fare of elk and
dog. They wanted more, and since the Clatsops told them
where the whale could be found, it was decided that a hike to
that location to procure more meat was in order. Sacagawea
— who craved to see the ocean after all her travels — asked
to go along, and the request was granted. Pictured, Wil-
liam Clark’s (pictured inset) map of the route to the whale
site, courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript
Library.
The next morning a group of 12 left for the salt works in
Seaside, then headed south to the whale, two full days’ travel
over difficult terrain. On the way, one foolhardy member of
the group, wandered off and almost got killed for his blan-
ket. Clark named a creek after him, McNeal’s Folly, which
is in present-day Les Shirley Park in Cannon Beach.
By the time Clark’s group finally reached the whale, all
that was left was a 105-foot skeleton. They took some of
the bones, and bartered with the Killamucks for about 300
pounds of blubber and a few gallons of oil — which didn’t
come cheap, and must have been hellish to haul back to Fort
Clatsop.
It was a bit of a disappointing trip except, most likely, for
Sacagawea, who finally got to see the ocean.
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ot the empty nest blues? Astorians Kathleen Strecker and her
husband, Tom, came up with an adventurous cure: “Two mid-
dle-aged geeks on an open-ended adventure.”
“After braving the cold and drizzle of the Oregon Coast for
20-plus years,” she wrote, “we are starting a new adventure and driv-
ing long-haul for Swift Transportation with no end date in sight.” A
former editor of Coast Weekend for The Daily Astorian, she now
has a Beachbody health and fitness business. You can follow their
adventures at Super Strecker Trucker Trek on Facebook.
“Tom is a career paramedic and Emergency Medical Tech-
nician (EMT) instructor who got his commercial driver’s license
(CDL) originally to drive the equipment truck for the Astoria Band
Boosters,” Kathleen explained. Along for the ride, is Bugsy, their
14-year-old Pug.
“With our kids, James and Julia all grown up and moved out,
we are selling our house in Astoria and looking forward to seeing
more of the country,” she added. “How long will we do this? Where
will we end up? We’ll let you know the answers to those questions
when we do!”
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COMMUNITY NOTES
SATURDAY
Lower Columbia R/C Society
— 8:30 a.m., back room at Uptown
Cafe, 1639 S.E. Ensign Lane, War-
renton. Local Academy of Model
Aeronautics (AMA) chartered radio
control model aircraft club meets for
breakfast and business. All model
aircraft enthusiasts are welcome.
For information, call 503-458-5196
or 503-325-0608.
Explore Nature Steelhead
Ecology Hike — 10 a.m. to 1 p.m,
starts at Mapes Creek County Boat
Launch. Event is held by the Tilla-
mook Bay Watershed Council and
the Tillamook Estuaries Partner-
ship. Bring rain gear; $4 parking fee
per vehicle. To register, go to http://
bit.ly/2o3hn6y
Clatsop County Genealog-
ical Society — 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.,
Church of Jesus Christ of Lat-
ter-day Saints, 350 Niagara Ave.
Park in rear of church. Group has
joined forces with the LDS Family
History Center. All are welcome.
For questions, call Carol Wamsher
at 503-298-8917 or Sali Diamond at
503-325-1963.
Columbia Northwestern Mod-
el Railroading Club — 1 p.m., in
Hammond. Group runs trains on
HO-scale layout. For information,
call Don Carter at 503-325-0757.
Spinning Circle — 1 to 3 p.m.,
Astoria Fiber Arts Academy, 1296
Duane St. Bring a spinning wheel.
For information, call 503-325-5598
or go to http://astoriafiberarts.com
tact Mark Standley at 503-434-0148
or Herman Doty at 971-306-1043 or
ringinganvildesign@gmail.com
SUNDAY
Blacksmith
Enthusiasts
Meet — 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Camp
18 Blacksmith Shop, 42362 U.S.
Highway 26, Seaside. Participants
welcome to bring their own forge
and anvil setup. Metal available to
experiment with; coal is provided.
No charge, but donations to the
Camp 18 Loggers Memorial Muse-
um welcome. For information, con-
National Alliance on Mental
Illness (NAMI) Support Group
— 2 to 3:30 p.m., Seaside Public
Library, 1131 Broadway. Family to
Family Support Group, for anyone
with friend or loved one suffering
from a serious brain (mental) illness.
For information, contact Myra Kero
at 503-738-6165, or k7erowood@q.
com, or go to www.nami.org
Line Dancing — 5:30 to 8 p.m.,
Seaside American Legion, 1315
Broadway. For information, call
503-738-5111. No cost; suggested
$5 tip to the instructor.
MONDAY
Chair Exercises for Seniors
— 9 to 9:45 a.m., Astoria Senior
Center, 1111 Exchange St. For in-
formation, call 503-325-3231.
See NOTES, Page 2B