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Clockmaker: ‘I’ll be working here until I die, then my kids get to clean up the mess’
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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-
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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.
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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.
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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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