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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2017
Malarkey:
Survived by his
daughters and sister
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John Goodenberger
Crews with Left Shore Construction have been restoring the stucco facade on the Riviera Building.
Riviera: Theater opened in June 1925
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In 2015, the state Legisla-
ture created the Oregon Main
Street Revitalization Grant
Program for projects that
encourage economic revital-
ization. Heath secured two of
the initial 27 grants for Asto-
ria, including $100,000 to help
turn the former Wal dorf Hotel
building into workforce hous-
ing, and $53,000 to restore
the stucco facade, shingles
and roof of the Riviera Build-
ing. Fairchild and Hulsey are
matching nearly $23,000 on
the project.
The Riviera Building
On June 2, 1925, the Riv-
iera Theater opened at the cor-
ner of 11th Street and Marine
Drive. The building was a
Mediterranean R evival style,
designed by architect Charles
T. Diamond, who also worked
on the Odd Fellows and Car-
ruthers buildings, as well as
the Doughboy Monument in
Uniontown.
Local historian John Good-
enberger, who is advising on
the renovation project, said
the Riviera Theater continued
into the 1950s, later becoming
the Lewis and Clark Theater
and eventually the Columbian
Theater when Brott acquired
the building in the 1980s.
Hulsey said the cafe has
been in the building since it
opened, while Metal Head was
a former barbershop until the
1980s. The front of the Riv-
iera, formerly an ice cream
parlor and other businesses,
was eventually boarded over
and turned into a smaller the-
ater by the former owners,
he said. Hulsey and Fairchild
transformed the former theater
into the Voodoo Room .
Katie Rathmell, owner
of Pacifi c Window Resto-
ration, has been working her
way along the storefronts of
the Riviera restoring win-
dows and repairing weather
damage. Soon she will install
new plate glass storefront win-
dows in front of the Voodoo
Room, which Fairchild said
will keep its darker ambiance
by using thick curtains. On
11th Street, Rathmell is restor-
ing two large, 40-pane arched
windows on the ground fl oor,
along with other double-sash
windows upstairs.
“I’m really excited to be a
part of it,” Rathmell said. “It’s
really cool to be able to bring
the old look to it, as much as
we can.”
Steve Stewart of Left Shore
Construction has been sanding
down the existing stucco sur-
face of the Riviera and apply-
ing a new layer of sand, cement
and lime — known as a dash
stucco fi nish. Afterwards, he
said, Hulsey will paint over
the fi nish with an elastomeric
paint designed to waterproof
cement and masonry. Stewart
specializes in historic build-
ings and has worked on sev-
eral lighthouses in the region.
The color of the original
Riviera Building is hard to
ascertain. T he few early pho-
tos are black and white. Fair-
child said the building will be
painted a dark red to match the
Wet Dog Cafe next door, along
with the dark green trim of the
shingles and a blue-and-gold
Riviera Building nameplate on
Marine Drive.
Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian
The Riviera Building, owned by Jeanine Fairchild and Uri-
ah Hulsey since 1997, is undergoing a restoration.
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live in the area with his wife
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Fixing up downtown
“We really wanted to do
this for many, many years, but
the cost is just too daunting,”
Fairchild said of the resto-
ration. “Nobody would give us
a loan for that kind of thing.”
The Columbian Theater
had raised more than $50,000
from the community in 2013
for a new digital projector and
sound system, and Fairchild
said she and Hulsey didn’t
want to ask the public to foot
the bill for another project.
Hea th said the downtown
association is hoping to work
with more property owners to
garner grant support to restore
historical buildings and pro-
tect them from weather dam-
age. “Coming from Restore
Oregon, I have a lot of interest
in using the building stock that
we already have,” she said.
Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian
Steve Stewart of Left Shore Construction is repairing the stuc-
co dash finish on the 92-year-old Riviera Building in Astoria.
Crash: U.S. Highway 101 was closed for hours
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The names of those involved will
not be released until the families can be
notifi ed, Oregon State Police Sgt. Jeff
Proulx said. Investigators are working
with the d istrict a ttorney’s offi ce on
possible criminal charges against the
driver of the Durango.
Before the crash, Seaside Police
Department responded to a disturbance
at a residence where they encoun-
tered a silver Dodge Durango driving
towards them. Offi cers attempted to
overtake the Durango and the female
driver, Proulx said, but lost sight of the
vehicle before coming upon the crash
scene.
The driver of the Durango lost con-
trol of the vehicle and drove up onto the
sidewalk where it hit a bus stop shelter.
The Durango then drove over another
sidewalk and eventually stopped after
hitting a lamppost. The driver was
detained as she was walking away from
the crash, according to state police .
The highway was closed south of
Broadway for four hours .
Malarkey was haunted by
memories of combat and the
devastation of losing fellow
soldiers and friends, his fam-
ily members said. Still, the
release of the “Band of Broth-
ers” miniseries was cathartic
for him and helped him come
to terms with the emotional
scars of the battle, Hill said.
Malarkey was born on
July 30, 1921 in Astoria. He
was a freshman at the Univer-
sity of Oregon when he was
drafted into the Army in 1942
and volunteered to become a
paratrooper.
He returned to the Univer-
sity of Oregon after the war,
receiving a bachelor’s degree
in business in 1948. While a
student at the school, he met
and fell in love with Irene
Moore. The two married in
1948 and had four children
— Michael Malarkey, Mar-
ianne McNally, Sharon Hill
and Martha Serean.
Malarkey served on the
Clatsop County Commis-
sion in the 1950s before mov-
ing to Salem in the 1960s.
He was also a member of the
civic group Astoria Jaycees,
where he met Carl Jacobson,
another Astoria native who
moved to Salem and knew
Malarkey for 30 years.
“The guy had an interest-
ing career,” Jacobson said of
Malarkey.
One anecdote of Malar-
key’s service that made the
book “Band of Brothers”
but not the television show,
Jacobson said, was the chance
he got to speak face-to-face
with both former President
Dwight Eisenhower — at the
time supreme commander of
the Allied forces in Europe
— and former British Prime
Minister Winston Churchill.
Clatsop County District
Attorney Joshua Marquis met
Malarkey in the mid-2000s
and hosted the veteran and his
commanding offi cer, Lynn
“Buck” Compton, for private
lunches in Astoria.
“What struck me about
Don is that Don was really
willing to talk about his expe-
riences,” Marquis said.
“It was touching. It was
like being able to shake the
hand of history.”
Malarkey met with his-
torian Stephen Ambrose in
1987, and in 1989 traveled
with other members of Easy
Company to Europe to pro-
vide oral histories of their
war experiences. Those rec-
ollections became the basis
for “Band of Brothers” and
an earlier book with the same
name written by Ambrose.
Malarkey also detailed his
experiences in a 2008 auto-
biography written with Bob
Welch, “Easy Company Sol-
dier.” Malarkey was fre-
quently asked to speak about
his experiences in WWII,
and he lectured at West Point
and made trips to Kuwait
and Germany to meet with
wounded soldiers from the
Iraq War.
He remained close to
the other surviving mem-
bers of Easy Company and
attended his fi nal Easy Com-
pany reunion in Portland in
August.
“You could look back and
with great pride realize that
you had done a very signifi -
cant thing and acted responsi-
bly in what amounted to sav-
ing the world,” Malarkey told
Oregon Public Broadcasting
in 2012.
Malarkey is survived by
his daughters and his sister,
Molly Rumpunkis.
Edward Stratton of The
Daily Astorian contributed to
this report.
multiple companies, includ-
ing the Daily Journal of
Commerce. He studied
graphic arts at Portland Com-
munity College and earned a
certifi cate as an offset sheet-
fed pressman. In 1976, his
brother, Ron, was working as
a manager of Ferrell Home
Center in Astoria and con-
vinced his brother to move
west. The area’s recreational
opportunities, easy com-
mutes and the opportunity to
run a bigger press machine
all appealed to him.
“It sounded pretty good
coming to the coast,” Grimm
said. “It sounded like an
inviting place.”
Still in his 20s, Grimm
convinced his manager
early in his tenure to switch
from letter press to a faster,
more effi cient offset press.
He stayed with the com-
pany through several indus-
try and corporation-specifi c
transitions.
His retirement comes
nearly a decade after his most
recent switch to digital print-
ing. For the past 22 years,
Grimm has been printing for
outside customers as well as
for multiple departments and
papers in EO Media Group .
He produced specialized
items that included paper,
envelopes and cardboard
signs.
“Tom has performed his
job not only with excellence,
but with a smile,” said David
Pero, the editor and pub-
lisher of The Daily Astorian .
“There’s been a lot of change
to the industry over the years
and he’s seen it all.”
Grimm will continue to
live in the area with his wife,
Kathy, whom he married
soon before moving to Asto-
ria. In his retirement, Grimm
will continue to travel, hike,
camp, fi sh and boat. He also
will host local Boy Scout
troops at a camp site on the
northeast corner of Cullaby
Lake.
ASTOR STREET OPRY COMPANY
presents
THE BIRDS
with special permission from Dramatist Play Service
DIRECTED BY
SHEILA SHAFFER
WRITTEN BY
Conor McPherson
“A gripping, unsettling,
and moving look at human
relationships in the face of
societal collapse”
-Dramatist Play Service
FROM A STORY BY
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
Show Dates :
October 6, 7, 13, 14,15, 20 & 21
Sunday Matinee
:
th
October 15
at 2 p.m.
House opens at 6:30 pm, with show beginning at 7 pm
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The crash closed U.S. Highway 101 for four hours.
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