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- Oregon Experience: Astoria explores the multifaceted history of this city, tracking the economic ups and downs through the decades, and finding out where those two centuries of activity have brought Astoria today.
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My father was in the navy during WW 2. At the end of the war, ships from the Pacific theater came into the U.S. Pacific ports for repairs. The ships were lined up from Astoria to Portland, waiting their turns for repairs, so my father was able to get off the ship in Astoria many times, then he was discharged when they got to Portland and he went straight back to Astoria, where he met my mother, who was in a nursing program at the large hospital there.
They gt married and moved to California,
where they live for the restvof their long lives.
The hospital was St. Mary (commonly called St. Mary’s) where my mother trained during the war. They may have known each other. An interesting article on the nursing school was published by the Clatsop County Historical Society several years ago.
Wow awesome
After all that they still decided to live in the sceptic tank of the US...?
I'm fortunate to be able to reside here. I absolutely love this town. If you get a chance to come visit in the summer, take a walk around town and keep an eye out for a stashed painted sand dollar. I find the sand dollars on Sunset Beach just 7 miles south down 101 and paint them then stash them around town. LM Sand dollars.. .. I hope you come and find one 😊
I live in Corvallis and frequently go to Astoria. I will live there one day.
@@SuperNoncents I live here now
I too live in Astoria in the Astor building overlooking the Columbia.
@@darthku1408 how is it there? Always see that building and wonder what it would be like to live there regularly
@@thomasel9171 It's pretty nice here. I have an amazing view of the river.
HEYYY YOOUU GUUUYYSS.. It's not a tumor!! Kindergarten Cop was filmed there too. The school is about a half dozen blocks down the street from the Goonies house! Anyway great doc, Astoria is an awesome place to visit. The old canneries are really cool!
I think Astoria represents something quite odd in the history of Oregon, and, the US in general.
Somehow its both a story of unfathomable Boom-Bust cycles
While also being a tale long cherished of subtle perseverance.
Its rare to find both in one place. And yet, here we find Astoria. What was once touted (by myself included as a kid) as the New York of The West, is today maybe Oregon's most historied, town. A place that has lived its life in the lime light for nearly a century and a half, and today finds itself quite happily as little more than a seaside town at the end of some of the finest roads (and The finest river) one could hope to travel. Somewhere between the past and the present, the world forgot about Astoria and her stories. From the wood that built the world, to the fish that fed it, the port that sent it all out, and took very little in.
The world might have, at least for a time, forgotten Astoria. But The Astorians never did. And damn well they never shall
There's no we here, not French or Spanish. I think racism may have originated from tree farmers in that area of the Astoria peninsula. But it is still propagated at a level where I have a hard profile of tribal alignment with extremists in that area.
From past experience they will try to smear you in every way possible out there.
@@marioduron4376 what?
@@marioduron4376 wha?
@@SuperNoncents I was told by an Astorian resident that in the case of a tsunami they have a hill that they intend to climb. And it was suggested it was safe from the tsunami. They seem to demand their story. And they always interject that they were heroes. Like with the story of the fire. I would think it was the 1830s that the industrial fire took place. Because they had plenty of explosive material in storage. Maybe the detonation did block the fire or possibly it sucked enough air out for the fire to collapse. There was just no way they would have been able to act in front of a fire like that. You see the heat would be far too intense. Astoria is a daycare for trustafarians, they are too old to demand a story be read. It's not the fairy tale they promote. Somehow with the people Astoria attract there absolutely must be something pagan or paranormal that would compete with either the Heroin high or the coke high, and I mean the injected high. You probably have heard of the prison gang termed Supreme White Power? SWP is the tattoo they receive when certain orders are followed. Then the person would receive protection from other prison gangs. Astoria has attracted SWP gang members in the past. And I met one SWP member that had lived in Astoria and he loved it there. That's the comfort zone out in Astoria. It's a pagan free ride zone of wannabe white supremacists.
@@saltydog-mv4ij Mainly I say the story of Astoria is all a cover story. I would think that the real story would include war crimes. That's why the town of Astoria attracts empty soul free riders of the euphio machine. I don't need to go there. If you need me to say something good about Astoria I would say the lot spacing is good. The old houses are nice but they have nothing to do with Victorian houses builders or the style of British Columbia. And further I say the best houses would have been constructed from 1830 to 1840 and if you want proof you need to look in the construction of the foundation. But also there would be too much destruction if someone did prove the date on a historical building. Personally I would have the state buy all of Astoria and move the citizens all up to safety in higher elevations. As well all the historical buildings should be available to view and learn of in a paid guided tour.
I’m fortunate to call this place home!
Why because they walk on eggshells for you? Or because there is no consequence for your constant belittling? I already know the beach community cannot be decent. They can't even respect working there temporarily. Astoria is a fake wannabe racial hood of cult followers. So are Netarts or Tillamook. They are fake and they are cowards. And there is no real work ethic whatsoever. They just want to work the system out there. And they will tell a lie about heritage to work the system. Working the system is all that is in their hearts out there at the beach. They all lie and I'll fight any of them. Mainly I offer to box anyone from the beach of Oregon. Matching head gear and gloves. I'm calling every inhabitant of the Oregon coast a coward. Cowards that will never fight but only taunt.
2006 was a bad, bad year for me personally, but the undisputed high point was a multi-day trip out to Astoria. Museums, food, scenery, people, all were delightful. I should go back some day...
Do it before you pass. Bucket list it has its beauty
Astoria has always been my favorite place on earth.
I sometimes miss living on the coast. Lived in Seaside for many years. You forget how depressing it is to live there after awhile. I've lost a lot of friends from that area..
Beautiful but can get depressing, knowing the hardships that happened there.
I love Astoria. I met love here that in the end hurt me but this place stole my heart. Forever Oregonian ❤️
I attended the Job Corp at Tongue Point in Astoria Oregon in the late 1970’s. I was 16 and had just been emancipated. It was formerly a Naval Base, what a gorgeous location. I wish I’d not been such a troubled child and enjoyed it more. Even still, I knew I’d been given an amazing opportunity to live in a spectacular place. Wish I’d stayed there.
Stella, good on you for appreciating what you had in Astoria. I hope you can go back to visit it. I took a troubled (and abused) teenager into my home (more than once).
Her dad took her after a number of months from my home in Coos Bay. When she finished high school, she was put in the job corps, which she got kicked out of.
Many years later, she and my daughter are still friends, and have taken care of one another's kids.
My daughter has done very well for herself, and has helped her friend along the way.
Her friend didn't always make good life choices, but has persevered and her kids are mostly raised. Does she wish she had made better choice. Yes! But considering how much she went through as a child, I think she has done pretty well!
That same sentiment likely applies to you also.
I went to job corps between waldport and yachats in 2017. Ours was a forest service center so we were able to help fight the wildfires fires. Miss those days
@@catherinenelson4162 yes thanks, I survived, joined USMC, have two great grown children and two grandchildren. I have many fond memories of Astoria, Oregon. Nature has a way of purifying ones soul. Every child should spend time with her. You can only come to respect nature when you witness the beauty.
It’s always amazing to see how many salmon were in the river and how many giant old-growth trees were still in the area about 100 years ago
crazy what humans can do in such a short span
@@DendoTendo 100 years is a long time
my friend.
@@katedaphne4495 not really in the span of the life
Thank you to everyone involved in making this. Spent some time in Astoria during the fires of 2020 and fell in love with the place
The Oregon coast has always been my favorite place in the whole world. Just so peaceful and wild. Whenever I need a break from life thats where I go.
I'm not a native but i am a resident of Astoria and I love this littlle town. You really do have to intend to be here. It is still a great place with exceptional people. Its history is rich with excitement and tragedy. It's scenery with the Columbia is inspiring. It's too bad they destroyed the fisheries. Ps. If the ground starts shaking violently get the hell outta my way.
Thoroughly enjoyed this video. I lived in Astoria for three years during the early/mid 1950’s, while my father was stationed at the then US Navy base at Tongue Point. We lived in Navy housing just outside of town. The bridge wasn’t there at the time. We took the ferry over to Washington to visit my grandparents. Downtown Astoria is much like it was when I lived there, minus the ferries, fishing fleet and the canneries. I’ve since taken my wife back to Astoria a few times. Wouldn’t mind living there again.
Always enjoyed Astoria and will always stop by when road tripping in the area. It's nice to see this documentary about a town many folks don't know about.
If the documentary were real it would leave you with many questions rather than providing the conclusions from just perspective.
@marioduron4376 Ok pansy.
Joined the Navy in '74 in FL. , active duty on the USS Rogers DD-876 in Portland 1/75 got off the ship in '79. We spent every year a week in Astoria and many stops for a day over the years. After I got out I stayed in Oregon for over 30+ years.
You were very fortunate. I was on 876 for a better part of 4 years. All in San Diego and Westpacs. I'm from Salem and would have loved to have been homeported there.
@@stevehansen6995 There is a FaceBook Page. USS Rogers. Lived in Yamhill County on Hwy47.
Great little place. I have been a couple of times.
To bad Oregon (Portland area) has feel off the deep end.
Portland has nothing to do with Astoria nor the rest of the state
@@SuperNoncents
Sure a lot easier to get to Astoria passing through the shithole.
Used to visit family on a regular basis in St Helen and McMinnville, Oregon. I love Oregon, but I’m not going back until Oregon cleans up the woke act.
It may not happen in my lifetime. Unbelievable how far downhill the place has gone in 10 years.
@@luckyc3926 St Helen is not too bad of a place to visit but there is an unknown reason why the main corridor has not been developed. Strangely similar as the question of why there is no attempt to build a highway from Yamhill or Gaston out to Beaverton. As for Mcminnville, there is nothing good to say about it. They are racial hypocrisy druggie followers. And I would offer to box anyone from Mcminnville. Or from my own small town.
@@SuperNoncents Actually as long as Portland has the money it has the most influence. Washington is pretty well off financially but they seem to keep the money all tied up. In fact I would suggest that Astoria has nothing to do in relation to Oregon. Other than a paper written relationship. I think Astoria belongs to something not seen. I really wouldn't recommend not living there. Nor is there any reason to visit Astoria. There's something strange about the lighthouse tower to visit in Astoria. I would suggest they play off any manifest intent to climb the lighthouse. If you do climb it be sure to say to yourself that you simply want to enjoy the view, or simply that climbing the lighthouse would be good exercise potentially.
@@luckyc3926 Is t
he Woke Act" simply anything you disagree with? I'm gonna let u in on a little secret - cities haven't changed. Portland has less crime now than in the 90's. It's safer now than ever before. Homelessness is up, but it's not at 1930's levels. Turn off the propaganda u call news. Do some research, and start learning the facts.
I love Astoria. It's one of my favorite cities and I'm tickled that I only live 45 minutes away on the Washington side. ❤❤❤
I had a good fish and chips lunch from a restaurant boat on land in Astoria. Climbed that tower as well. Nice town. I didn't realize it was that old. The bridge to Washington was a nice drive as well.
The restaurant i called “The Bow Picker,” which describes the type of boat.
Since moving to the West Coast three years ago, I’ve been wanting to visit Astoria. This is a great documentary. I would have liked to see more of the city today and what it has to offer seniors.
One of our favorite places to visit. So much to do and see in the area. Anyone venturing to the west coast must come and spend some time here along with Seaside in Oregon and Long Beach in Washington. You will never regret it.
Astoria is and will always be my favorite town in Oregon, I always look forward to visiting there!
I made a trip from Nevada and stayed in the cannery pier hotel and visited the town it was realy awsome,one of the best hotels I've stayed at and I've stayed in many
I grew up
On Clatskanie Oregon which is 45 minutes away from
The coast Astoria and seaside are basically my homes cus as a teenager and in my early 20’s I spent most my time
There I
Love it and miss it
!!
I wished we still had some of those old growth groves because they were as big as any redwoods at least as thick
That sounds fabricated. There is no old growth that won't reform. And it was not comparable to the Redwoods of Northern California. No other species of tree was ever as thick as the Redwoods.
I was born in Oregon. My grandmother taught me how to fish when I was 5. When my family moved overseas, she would ship us canned salmon. Everywhere we lived, the pantry was stocked with canned salmon to the ceiling.
I sailed in 2012 from Portland down the Columbia out the bar and down to Tillamook Oregon and back up the Columbia to Portland. One of the most technical and dangerous sailing you can do. The amount of Large Ocean going freighters, tugs, and barges going up and down the Columbia was far more then ply Puget Sound to Seattle and Tacoma.
That's pretty awesome.✌️🇺🇲
West coast sailing is west toast sailing now
I’m thinking about floating the Williamette from Dexter to Portland.
So...not sure about that route but from Portland to Astoria...there was a ton of logs and debris you will hit...back in the day they had hundreds of piers along the river bank and today they have the remains of the large poles still sticking in the mud along the bank and the dangerous ones are the ones just under the surface that you can not see just waiting to punch a hole in your boat. This is very important to know as when you sail or motor going up stream (against the current) a tactic to make better headway is to hug the bank so you can take advantage of the counter current but you run the risk of hitting one of these submerged pilings. They are charted on the charts but I bet not every one of them is in the charts...Best...SV Aquila...Seattle@@NFS305
My great grandmother was a tuna tester in 1936 she was mentioned in a book wish I could remember the name of it.she used to tell me how hard a job it was when I was little
Miss her so much ❤
I miss my grandma, too. Her name was Dorothy, she lived in Oregon and she went fishing for salmon until she was in her 80s. She taught me how to fish, and dig clams, make berry jam and apple pie and make a fire. She taught me how to use a ham radio and I learned Morse code in her basement. She was the best. What is a tuna tester?
@@cantfindmykeys I guess they just tasted the tuna to make sure it was 👍
@@dollmck8360 I'm not crazy about fish, other than shellfish. My friend's mom was a taster for Hershey's when I was a kid. Lucky woman!
@@cantfindmykeys that sounds like the better of the two.
@@dollmck8360 for a chocoholic like me, definitely.
I love astoria, such a calm little town
Till the tsunami hits.
@@seeharvester till jericho labonte hits
My sister and I are related to the infamous Bridget Grant, the Shanghai queen of Astoria, me by marriage my sister is blood relative . One of Bridget’s daughters who was a teacher in Oakland calif years later in her life, taught me how to play chess in my early childhood, as kids we would on sundays visit our great grandmother at her house in Oakland. That was when they still had ferry boats that would take you across the bay from Tiberon on to Oakland , ages ago when there were only two bridges across the bay the Bay bridge and the golden gate, was awhile back. Yes the family history is very interesting, thats for sure, always wanted to take my sister to Astoria for Bridget Grant days. She has some health problems now so not sure she could make the trip, but I’m sure she would love it if she could.
Came here for the mushrooms. Beautiful, beautiful place. Alot of cool history.
blue ones!
Come visit Fort Astoria at 15th & Exchange Street. Don't get distracted by the other buildings on the block - beer & food.
You're the guy that called for a roofing bid, And started out by saying that You like the fact that we have an all white crew. And we had some Mexican Americans on the crew so my Dad says, sorry we can't work for you.
Didn’t cover some of the most interesting parts, the tunnels under town like the Shanghai hole behind the bar at the Workers tavern that leads right to the water. The recurring arsonist that has burned the waterfront every 50 years since its inception. Some of the most potent Psychedelic mushrooms in the world grow freely in everyone’s yards that have wood chips. The abandoned artillery facilities on the cliffs at Tongue point that should never be explored. That town is glorious or sleepy on a good day and then a dark cloud will pass over and you are instantly in a Steven King novel.
Was stationed there with the Coast Guard in the early 80s. I loved it.
22:49 the first railroad connecting Portland to Astoria was the Astoria & Columbia River Railroad in 1898. The A&CR became part of the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railroad in 1911. SP&S was merged with a few other railroads to form Burlington Northern in 1970, which today is BNSF. In the 1990s BN wanted to get rid of the Astoria line, and in 1997 it was sold to the Portland & Western between Portland (Willbridge) and Tongue Point, with the City of Astoria acquiring the remaining few miles. Today the Astoria Riverfront Trolley operates along the tracks in the city. In 2003, the State of Oregon along with the Portland & Western and Amtrak launched a three-car rail diesel car (RDC) train called the Lewis & Clark Explorer that ran between Linnton, just east of Portland, and Astoria to celebrate the bicentennial of the Lewis & Clark expedition. Though widely popular, it only lasted for two years, ending in 2005.
There's a nonprofit group in Astoria that's been working since 1991 to restore a steam locomotive to pristine condition and run excursions along the Columbia River. They hope to get it operational in the next few years, after which they'll restore the track from Astoria 13 miles east to Knappa. www.astoriarailroad.org/
The train actually ran all the way to Seaside. James Beard wrote about taking the train to Gearhart. We had an SP&S freight train come to Seaside about once a week in the 1950s.
@@GH-oi2jf yeah, the first railroad in Astoria was the Astoria and South Coast Railway in 1888 between Astoria and Seaside, later taken over by the A&CR.
Great docu and insights on how Astoria came about and home of the Goonies and Short Circuit!
A fabulous documentary! Informative, educational and fun to watch! Thanks, Oregon Public Broadcasting.
If you do go to Astoria go to Saddle Mountain east of Seaside (Saddle Mountain State Park) a very good view of the Lower Columbia
It's probably a jig or trick. There is probably a cult secret there which traps certain visitors. There's nothing natural about the Astorian peninsula. The people are not real people and the state parks are some type of stage. I will never trust a beach lover again. They are a slave product, my ex wife loved the beach and was a racist, she has a tattoo that indicates she is a slave.
I grew up in Astoria and Warrenton. My Mom worked the canery in the 70s. I live our little towns.
In "Undaunted Courage" the book about the Lewis and Clark expedition it said that when they got to the mouth of the Columbia, Astoria was a trading post. That was 1805. This documentary says Astor sent 2 parties to the mouth of the Columbia in 1811. I tend to believe Lewis and Clark because they were surprised someone had already gotten there.
Does anyone have more info on this?
Astor was much later than Lewis and Clark.
@@GH-oi2jf With very little physical evidence to corroborate that expedition story I have come to believe it was made up in order to hide where the shipping was sophisticated in early nineteenth century. Actually the entire story of the settling of the West must have been embellished. In my heritage Oklahoma was the destination chosen with the big oil industry. And people moved to Mexico in the Mexican oil boom. Then when that ended they moved to California. What would possibly pay for wagons to just head east with no cash flow or income? My estimate is any wagons heading east were hired in a assassination campaign of the Native inhabitants. And this theory is backed from my own experience back in 1993 when military agents recruited an older step brother. I think they wanted someone who would want the free ride and would descend racially in a segregation intent. It was as a pirate group elects who would be selected in the Navy recruitment. And I know they want to group any part Indian in as Hispanic. I think this racial lie they demand is a big part of how the high is held up. I can say with certainty the Navy is a drug Cartel.
The only reason John Jacob Astor even knew about Astoria was the journals of Lewis and Clark who traveled overland from St. Louis to the mouth of Columbia. After hearing the stories of the wealth of fur, salmon, trees, etc. Astor financed an expedition to set up a trading post there before the French or British could claim the land.
I remember growing up in Long
Beach across the river the fishing was very busy in the 60s and 70s they called the mouth of the Columbia shipwreck grave yard of the Pacific due to the sand and gravel coming off the Canadian Rockies that is why you have slot of sand bars
I've lived in long beach all my life I'm a captain of a aluminum dredge farming oysters only 22
And the Goonies house just sold...$1.7million. Crazy.
really? LOL PT Barnum would be proud I heard it was up for like 1.6 and I thought that was out to lunch shows you how much I know
Seriously? That's nuts hehe!
Crazy, for sure. It is an old house with many problems including a sliding Foundation.
the entire inside of the house was completely gutted and turned modern it was so run down they had no option. family use to live down the street from there
I just paid 300,000 for a modular on a foundation and 4 acres of land for $300,000 and the land was actually given to me so the house was around $300,000 so $1.7 million for this house isn’t bad at all,I was there last month when they were working on it
The NBC TV series Movin'On filmed an episode in Astoria/Olney Oregon in the summer of 1974.The episode title is "The Trick Is To Stay Alive".The episode is here on YT and on TUBI.
When I was a kid, I caught perch in the Potomac River back when it was polluted! I stopped fishing when one of the perch was full of worms! It’s amazing I survived. I’m 80 now!
I would enjoy hearing from your perspective. I once gave a small mouth to a lady back when I was a child and I didn't understand the level of toxins. So a man went down to warn her not to eat it. It's also a wonder that I survived beyond my teenage years. I'm 42 according to my birth record date. But something strange has occurred. I feel that time has been taken from me. Perhaps around ten years was stolen. And perhaps when reality restores you would still have youth. But at least for now you have a spectacle to behold.
I've read Peter Starks book, Astoria. It was a great book on the expedition overland and by sea by Mr. Astor to start the official settlement. A great read I heartily recommend.
Thanks for the recommendation!
I also read the book, Astoria by Peter Stark. An incredible documentary and true adventure story. Two groups of explorers were sent by Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson to claim and settle that portion of the west coast. One group went overland and the second group went by sea, journeying down the east coast and around the tip of South America.
Yeesh, these men were exploring this beautiful, vast, lush, ancient, well-tended continent and could only think of ways to destroy it and could only murder all the animals for money. So painful to think about. So much beauty lost and destroyed.
Excellent documentary! Thank you so much 🌹
More or less a story. Astoria the tall tale story of trustafarians in a sygiant flux of gendorfulgunrant.
Very well done , thank you architecture is what attracts me
I've lived here since 1985. It was a big fishing community. It was a quaint little town. Things were quieter, more affordable, friendly little town. Totally different now. Fishing community all but gone. No housing and property is at prices that only snowbirds can afford. Homeless are everywhere. Over crowded. Crime is high. It's so sad.
Sounds like poor city leadership. But also there was a different culture that built that Town and they really didn't want to share the original foundation building and site planning. Sounds crazy but they may know when a Tsunami will happen. Maybe the wealthy elites are not the class you might assume. It may be that they are tied to it in a way. From the true intentions of becoming a segregation colony. You still live a good life, inland from the coast. Sixty inland miles is what I believe the coast will be after a massive Tsunami. I could see if they had jet pontoon boats they might save some lives. Or those hydroplane crafts. Overall I see it as if that's the way it is out there, then that's all a part of their recipe of conformity. Conforming for what? Perhaps they have a lottery of being entered into a Castle. Perhaps a Castle in social form, but a pyramid complex of slave servants. It must be something as massive as the Freedom tower seen from all over New Jersey. This Pyramid complex must be seen from anywhere around the west coast. When it arrives out of the Earth it is seen east of Las Vegas and into Arizona. And massive flooding will soon follow the arrival. Whatever your level of hardship it wouldn't compare to falling in to the anarcho pyramid slave ship. Don't go near because you'll lose Adult logic. The most you would see any way is hard looking workers dressed in this era clothing and they enter a portal in the side of rock. There is a massive hydro of blue liquid being sprayed horizontally at a massive stone which jets the liquid straight up as high as the Golden pyramid itself. There are plenty of clues and there may be witnesses from this time that saw the pyramid poke up for air. The thing was people really did get converted into salt pewt ash if they looked back after being asked to leave. It was really just the next step beyond shunning. There were worse punishments from the arrival. I have my perspective which would be different from people looking from a different vantage point. Simply people need to hold their turf beyond the arrival of the Pyramid. Then the Earth will shift continents on a massive massive scale. The Alps will be west of oregon. And Oregon is fated to be the last visible state of the lower 48 and it will be the last remaining civilian state in the lower 48.
@@marioduron4376 have you considered seeking mental help? Based on your comments it seems you may have paranoid schizophrenia. I'm not trying to be mean but your posts are bizarre and make little sense.
Your perspective on Astoria is unique as most Astorians do not share your views. I am so sorry for your personal disappointment in such a wonderful city even today.
what idiocy.@@marioduron4376
I adore Astoria. This was a really enjoyable piece. TY!
My favorite place to visit. Did anyone know my grandpa derrel nelson he lived in svenson. Unfortunately he passed in 2019 but i still have family in the area. I would love to share stories about my grandpa. Theres alot i didn't know about him. Merry Christmas all.
Incredible history.
Excellent program! Thank you!
I've been going to Astoria since I was a kid. Love it so much.
I live now in Redmond or but in the 50s lived in an around.astorea thanks for your time Lee
They are people stuck in the fifties. They all demand a story be told. Did they demand a lie be told with you? Or did you actually have fun out there? Just curious if you had any personal freedom. Or was it all labor?
Fun Fact- Astoria Oregon is where after only a short telephone discussion with Colleen at the Astoria Chamber of Commerce, the world-famous philanthropist Niles Standish decided to establish his revolutionary community-integrated rehabilitation facility Lollypop House!
The line hit me "At first, loggers could fall trees close to town" @t=970
Affordable housing came to mind. As population grows and resources get further away... A local person needs to produce a lot of value to buy/build a home.
Kindergaten cop, put this place on the map for me, every time i watch that film I find myself in a trance gazing at the background, it seems like such an enchanting place to me, always puts a spell on me every time I when I watch that film, It is my dream to visit this place one day, i am from Yorkshire, England
Thinking about moving there from Longview Wa love your little town been visiting fo 40 yrs
This should be called A story of Astoria
Lived in forrest grove and in Portland. Driving to Astoria was some of the most beautiful scenery trees mountain roads rivers and lakes blue water clear and cold. Dear elk moose bears. Gorgeous
My uncle owned the ambulance and taxi service there. I got to fly over the coast in his Medix plane.
My third great grandfather said; who’s up for a divide! Convincing the last Frenchman to vote for an American colony instead of a British colony and opening up the first provisional government of the Pacific northwest in Champoeg Oregon 1846. He had to go back to president Polk a second time after the Whitman massacre. He was there for a long time It took the government a long time to ratify it. He worked for William sublet. Many history books about my grandfather in this History. ❤❤❤❤❤
Was lucky to see that little town in the 70s stay at thunder bird lodge by the Bridge.hauld a lot of Tuna& salmon from there to long Beach, LA.
The Thunderbird is now the Atomic Motel.
I LIVED AND WORKED IN CANNON BEACH, OREGON, 26 MILES SOUTH OF ASTORIA FOR 20 YEARS, THE HAPPIEST OF MY 8O YEARS. I WORKED AT TER-HARS, OWNED BY A WONDERFUL FAMILY, THE ORIGINAL STORE IN SEASIDE, THE NEW STORE IN CANNON BEACH, WITH THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MERCHANDISE ON THE COAST!! CANNON BEACH IS A GORGEOUS VILLAGE IN THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SURROUNDINGS ON THE OCEAN!!
love the hilly residential areas here!🥰
Great video of the mouth of Columbia. Paved paradise to put up a parking lot..
Ok well im from Astoria NYC and I love it here too! ❤
We love this place
In the late 70s I was on the USS Fanning FF 1076 we visited Astoria. The local Coast Guard painted an Orange stripe on our ship in the middle of the night. I meet some Girls from a Correctional camp and had a good time there. They were still floating log rafts there then.
No mention of the Corps of Discovery? That's a major part of the history of the Astoria area.
Worked on a shrimper, out of Warrenton for five months, 1980.
My grandmother and mother were full blooded Finnish people working in the 60s in Astoria.
Very cool! I grew up here. It’s a wonderful little town.
I was sober driver that night. The night we ended up in Astoria from Eugene. When my friends woke up in a car at the tower as the sun rose, a goonies trip that ended up as so much more.
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It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
So wonderful ❤️ video
Don’t forget about the ghosts. All of those abandoned canneries are spooky!
City wide séances on Halloween
Fun town
I miss living there
I live in long beach washington just across the Columbia
I love the soundtrack in the introduction!❤
I worked at Tongue Point. We used to fish off the big piers for sturgeon after work. I found some drawings in the big abandoned hangers from when they filmed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles there. All the Elk… the column, the titty flop… wild times… 😂
This land was not unclaimed!!! There were people living there for thousands and thousands of years but I don't hear their names mentioned.
My theory is that many early North Americans were allowed through a Jesus ship portal into an incrementally different and separate dimension. Thus when planetary alignment occurs there will be a dimensional shift, and with the shift there will be a change in tension regarding the tensity of terms and the tension of life. As well there will be a true physical difference with the change. While certain ailments will be lifted, basic transportation will be altered on a grand scale. The trucking industry will be most noticeably affected before and after the shift. The entire style of transport will change. And with the current style of automobile, they simply won't be able to get enough traction to get up hills. Keep the faith up that there is a God that loves you no matter what happens. And remember that Man doesn't have a cure. But Mankind can accept the love of Jesus and then you will accept one's true wealth the wealth that is yet to behold, and is the energy possible which replaces the lower form of currency. The scenic view will change dramatically fast as will the true spirits of north America that will be seen for the first time from non tribal members.
The north coast isn't for everyone. If it is for you, though, it is a wonderful place to be.
i live here, and let me tell ya, it is just rain, rain, and more rain. the scenery is very nice, if you dont mind walking to your car through what is essentially the fish smell version of the ice bucket challenge.
And here I am, thinking it was about a neighborhood in Queens, New York...
Goonies never say "die."
They were probably a true artifact. In many movies everything is a cover story for the real beings to live in a slightly different time zone. There may be reality to that saying. But there may be a jig to it.
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....and that $3B in gold is why Nancy Pelosi owns real estate in US government....
j/k....but, seriously...
@@donHooligan That's just an illusion. She simply has ice and fire and wants you to go and riot. You never will see anything as horrific anytime in recorded history. In the most simple term they are going to harvest the riot crowd into one growing blob of burning current. You are free thinking but do you know how to ask questions, and can you think big enough? The reality is Oregon is the only State that has paid in Gold to stay in a civilian state. The Gold is paid to the deep state agents. It has absolutely nothing to do with the puppets of the Government stage act.
Destroyed paradise with greed.
And it is even worse now. Always a comfortably affordable town until about 15 years ago. Now the super rich have discovered it and many of the homes have been bought up and made into occasional vacation homes that are visited maybe once or twice a year. It has driven housing prices so high that the average person can no. longer afford to live here. Most jobs are service industry jobs that pay only minimum wage. We now have a huge homeless population like so many places these days. So, so sad. It has always been such a nice town to live in and a friendly community with so much beauty.
From the insatiable greed of John Aster to the currentgreed of Rich Industrial upper class and abusive fisherman. They're not all abusive but many of them are atrocious dumping fuel oil into the water and leaving waste everywhere while pretending to be such hardworking wage earners when they are incredibly well off. I've dated their ex-girlfriends, some very bad habits! But there are also some really good people. They drive like cowboys in their $50,000 pickups daring anyone to get in their way. Very low value on anything like literacy and yet there are some awesome artists in this little town.
Then that is such a shame
The North American way.
Capitalism baby! Whooo!
WA and OR look at each other across the Columbia River.
Love ❤️ that house. All these homes should be saved 💯 🙏 😊🌲
Play on a softball team for the 29th Street saloon among other things!
It is a strange little place...weird vibe...lots of Victorian houses and a cool little down town with a big mix of restaurants...but it didn't have that quaint feeling other Victorian towns do.
Victorian style, a different vibe indeed, the restaurants are probably very inconsistent and they are very stereotyping. They are not related to British Columbia. Anyway can you allow a layer of skin to be peeled off the little cult town last grandstand? Time to say bye to the lap dogs who jumped into the lap of billy bob anarcho capitalist and thus into the feudal slavery system that is the foundation of Astoria from before in time ever so slightly.
There are many reasons the salmon fisheries failed but over- fishing is one of the main ones. Dams are a huge problem. Remove the 4 lower Snake River dams to allow easy passage into Idaho for thousands of miles of prime salmon spawning habitat. 😊
Nice piece
Hope to visit next May or June.
I love Astoria 😁😁Very interested city and very nice city 😆😆
Astoria had the potential to be as big as san francisco or seattle, so glad it didn’t
I’m from Astoria, great place to visit but a terrible place to grow up
Amen brother amen
I grew up in Clatsop County, some of the time in Astoria. I thought it was a wonderful place to grow up. That was several decades ago, though.
@@GH-oi2jf I moved there as a 10-year-old in 1973 and left in 1983........ Yeah it was wonderful how they rolled the sidewalks up in September and everything closed until the following April.
Only having pig and pancake and dairy Queen as your only food options after 6:00 p.m. every night in the winter was wonderful.
I remember once in the 5th grade we were studying the weather..... And we wrote down the weather every day for the months of December January and February......
There was not a single notation of sunshine.
The guy that owned the little Putt-Putt golf on Broadway would feel sorry for us at Christmas and open up for a day or two to give us kids something to do.
I hate it when I tell people that I grew up there and the first thing out of their mouth is...."oh you're so lucky it's so wonderful"...... It was a logging and fishing town then...... It had much less tourism then and that was limited only to the summer.
It was a much different town then...... It was full of very weird people back then...... From Harry the dirty old man used to walk around town and check the doors to make sure they were locked..... And the dirty old lady that worked at Ramies market it would stand there and look at those disgusting magazines all day.... The market was absolutely filthy with cobwebs hanging from the ceiling...... And she would stand there all day and look at those disgusting magazines..... We used to go in there and laugh at her.
It was a fine place to grow up......yeah right.
Just visited for the first time. Didn’t come away with any of the sentiments expressed here. Although I don’t wake up looking through a lens of negativity.