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Angry Sea Wrecks Ships and Gives a Man His Dream Home!
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A house and its interior that was salvaged from the sea by Guy Allison (right) of Portland, Oregon, is pictured here. The strange animals are ornaments made of driftwood and stray bits picked from
the beach near Ocean Park, Wash., while the lumber and wood for the house was tossed upon the beach by angry waves as though to answer the dream of a man who wanted a home and had not the
wherewithal!. From time to time during his meanderings through the piles of drift along the beach, strangely formed freaks of wood were found. With imagination and a little ingenuity, these finally
developed into the Wreckage "Zoo," the only one of its kind in existence. There is the "swindleoserous," the "pop-eyed oofus," the "gyrumpus," camel, Jiggs, Maggie, duck, seal and a boa constrictor,
each resembling the skeleton of some strange distorted animal.
HKRB in a strange story of a
a trail kg House-by-thc-nlde-of-the-sea!
A house given to a
man who dreamed, "even aa you
and I" of a beach lodge arid
peace.
The man, Guy Allison of Port
land, Oregon, was broken In
health and hnd only dreams with
whioh to build his place, but
oddly enough the spirit of the
deep caught up his vision and In
tempestuous moods lashed and
whipped and tore rafts and ships
apart until It gave to him the
things he needed.
Trying to got nn elusive grasp
on health, Allison walked the
beach of Ocean Park, Washing
ton, and as he walked he picked
up stray bits of driftwood, what
he calls "floatsam and jetsom
from Davy Jones' Ijocker."
Then one day, the sea, in a
tempestuous mood, gave up thou
sands of tawny brown poles,
varying In length from 30 to GO
feet and from 12 to 18 inches in
diameter. There was a great
storm and after It passed the
bfach for 50 mllco was covered
with the wreckage of a great
raft.
He vlsloned a strange, weird
house which would be so unusual
that It would always hold Inter
est for him that he could add to
from month to month as the roa
gave up its driftwood to the
beach near the fort of hiB dream
house.
Allison began to see his dream
But how could he start? In the
village near by was a youth with
block and tackle, a peavy, an
axe, and a cross-cut saw. Almost
any village has such a person
and they usually can be sold on
dreams?
DAY after day the woods re
sounded wilh the strokes of
the axe and thn hum of th r.n.w.
Day after day tho creaVnr; pul
leys drew into position the heavy
logs. Two, three, and four weeks
posfvl. and a structu'C. resem
bljrg a mammoth pig pen or corn
crib, arose. No preliminary plans,
or bhi" prints were followed, but
in Allison's mind therr wan the
memory of an o'd Russian Dlock
House, which he had visited sev
eral years previously in' Sitka.
Alaska. This block house had
been built over a hundred years
previously for a fort. The upper
story of it overhung the lower
story, so that it was larger. Why
not make this cabin that way?
With large, airy bedrooms above,
it would look different from ordi
nary houses.
The thought was father to the
deed, and when the pecond story
was reached, long lo"-s vrre
placed crosswise, extending five
feet over the lower side walls.
His houso began to take form,
fie stood on the beach from
whence he had taken the ' wall
for his castle," and contemplated
this work thus far acrnnl'shed
with great satisfaction. The ex
terior was almost complete, he
decided, and his mind wandered
to the interior.
Then, there arose the question
of lumber for rafters, for sills,
joists and door and window
frames. Lumber was high for
there was no milt within twenty
miles. Why not try the beach?
Maybe along that twenty-nine
mile stretch of driftwood enough
lumber could be found. Then
something unexpected happened
which solved the problem.
AGAIN the sea answered his
ca'l and a lumber vessel was
wrecked In a great storm. Not be
lieving that it could be possible,
AlMcon wandered along th" beach
after a storm and two miles be
low Ocean Park, as he looked
over the line of breakers he saw
the jostling of hundreds of planks
as they were bMng floated shore
ward by the incoming tide. There
-they were, two by four's, two by
six's, two by eight's; just the
kind of timbers needed for raft
ers, sills and joists. Ad they
drifted ashore, with feverish
haste, he carried them beyond
the reach of the ebbing waves.
After hours of work he rushed
back to the. village and got a
team and hauled his valuable
find to the slowly rising house.
Within a week rafters were in
place, sills were laid, partitions
were made and door and window
frames were ready.
But the house was not rain
proof. Where would the shinnies
com-! from? The sea had given
up everything needed thus far,
and back to the beach the builder
went. Among tne flntsom and pet
som were found seasoned fh'ngle
bolts, which had drifted down the
Columbia from the shingle mills
and washed ashore. These were
hauled in, and with a fro, one by
one, the shakes were split off, and
soon the house was covered with
long, home-made shingles, a roof
to last a life time.
Next came the' chinking be
tween the wide cracks of the
logs. For this purpose. Allison
took his axe and went to the
nearby forest and cut down fir
poles. These were peeled by his
wife and later they were inserted
between the openings of the logs.
Finally, his strange "house by
the sea" was complete, and Alli
son and his wife comfortably lo
cated. And so his dream came true.
He is happy in his unique drift
wood home.
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