A7 THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2019 Clockmaker: ‘I’ll be working here until I die, then my kids get to clean up the mess’ Continued from Page A1 Judy Van Winkle, a rookie when the couple took over the family business, han- dles much of the administra- tive duties while installing watch batteries and stringing necklaces. But the majority of Loop-Jacobsen’s business comes from the repair of clocks by Frank Van Winkle, who estimates he’s the last in his profession between Pacifi c County, Washington, and Tillamook. Clocks come to the shop through word of mouth, often after someone inher- its a family heirloom. He has worked on clocks dating to the 18th century, but mostly deals with pieces from the early to mid-1900s. His backroom workshop, surrounded by the ticking of timepieces on the walls, includes a vast array of parts and miniature manufactur- ing machinery . “There’s family history with clocks,” he said. “Peo- ple want to get their clocks fi xed.” The Van Winkle s haven’t pinned down the exact date of the store’s original April opening, but plan to hold an anniversary event on April 26. Harold Schulz and John Jacobsen opened Schulz-Ja- cobsen Watchmakers & Jewelers on Exchange Street in 1919. Schulz was listed in the 1930 census as a jewelry store owner, while Jacobsen, a Norwegian immigrant, was referred to as a watchmaker. Schulz was bought out of the business in 1932 by Har- vey Loop, a former watch- making instructor who had moved to Astoria in 1920, worked for a local jeweler and started his own store after the fi re of 1922. He and Jacobsen ran the store together until Jacobsen’s death in 1946. Rip Van Winkle, Frank’s father and a lieutenant with the Astoria Fire Department, came to work for Loop in 1952 as a clockmaker on his days off. The Van Win- kles became associated with Loop while living in a mili- Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian The Daily Astorian Frank and Judy Van Winkle get some help from their nephew, Dewain Farner, a heavy equipment operator who likes to tinker with clocks on his off time. Harvey Loop was still repairing watches at Loop- Jacobsen Jewelers in 1974 at the age of 95. The business turns 100 years old this month. Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian Judy Van Winkle, co-owner of Loop-Jacobsen Jewelers with her husband, Frank, handles the sales and ordering, along with minor repairs to wristwatches and the stringing of necklaces. Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian Frank Van Winkle went to work for his parents at Loop-Jacobsen Jewelers in 1982 and has owned the shop with his wife, Judy, since 1988. tary housing complex at the Astoria Regional Airport, where Loop had become enamored with fl ying and earned a pilot’s license in his 60s. “I will die with my boots on,” Loop, then 95, told The Daily Astorian in 1974 . “I’d go insane without my work. I just couldn’t stand it to do nothing.” Loop died two weeks shy of his 98th birthday in 1977. His daughter, Marlena, sold the business to Rip and Estel Van Winkle, who kept the Loop-Jacobsen name. Frank Van Winkle had been working at an auto warehouse in Portland when his parents took over the store. He earned his watch- making license in 1979, a year before the certifi ca- tion was no longer required . After the auto warehouse moved to Kansas, Frank Van Winkle, then 33, came to work for his parents in 1982. “When I came to work for my dad, he was two years behind on clocks,” he said. Rip Van Winkle died in 1987, leaving Estel Van Winkle to run the store with her son. After she left on a church mission in the late 1980s, Frank and Judy Van Winkle took over the oper- ation, located at 1360 Com- mercial St. since 1960. Loop-Jacobsen is among the few Astoria businesses to hold a 100-year anniversary. Knutsen Insurance, founded in 1918 by Martin Knut- sen, is still owned by the family. Norwegian immi- grant Sven Gimre in 1892 founded Gimre’s Shoes, now run by his grandson, Pete Gimre. Next year will bring the 100th anniversary of Josephson’s Smokehouse, a seafood shop started in 1920 by Anton Josephson. And Van Dusen Beverages bills itself as Oregon’s old- est family business, estab- lished in 1849. Like Loop, the Van Win- kles plan to work in the shop as long as they’re able. Their nephew, heavy equipment operator Dewain Farner, helps his uncle with clocks on his off time. But Frank Van Winkle lacks an heir apparent or the income to bring on an apprentice. Their three chil- dren, spread out across Ore- gon and Idaho, are uninter- ested in taking over. T he couple — Frank, at 70, and Judy, at 65 — lack a retire- ment plan beyond Social Security. The slow fade is a com- mon refrain for some of the region’s oldest businesses. The 106-year-old Home Baking Co. recently closed after the Tilander family wanted to retire . Lindstrom’s Danish Maid Bakery, a sta- ple for more than 90 years, closed after the co-owner and sole baker, John Lind- strom, fell ill and died. “I’ll be working here until I die, then my kids get to clean up the mess,” Frank Van Winkle said. 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