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Seaside, Oregon ...
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... Like MANY other U.S. cities was anti-war in September 1941 ! ... 😉
September 1941. "Sign. Seaside, Oregon." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Interesting spelling of Tokyo and Peking.
It's being willing. I found out early that most men, regardless of cause or need, aren't willing. They blink an eye or draw a breath before they pull the trigger. I won't. ~ J.B. Books
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Where is Peiping ?
Where is Peiping ? Old/Odd spelling of Peking China, Now Beijing, China.
Peiping = Bei•jing also Peking
a city in and the capital of the People's Republic of China, in the NE part, in central Hebei province. 7,000,000.
From 1928 to 1949
source: The Free Dictionary
Bunch of libs there still.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
I have been to Beijing...I remember as a kid learning it as being Peking....Never saw the alternative spelling before....
Live and Learn ! Thanks
I hate too admit it, but Seaside is about 55 miles West of me.
I don't know what their political stance is today, but they were hardly alone then.
Many "Red" U.S. cities were anti war, before Pearl Harbor !
We lived on Bainbridge Island awhile and would make day trips to Seaside. A lot more palatable than Canon Beach.
My first and only road trip from Michigan to the west coast was back in '96 to attend my brothers Navy retirement in Washington state. During that visit, we took the time to drive along the coast and ended up in Seaside spending 2 days and nights there at a kitchenette rental place right across the road from Seaside's fish aquarium.
I walked the town and watched some locals fishing off a bridge upon a river catching Dungeness crabs using chicken guts placed on round grill racks tied with rope. I learned a keeper crab had to be the size of a stretched out dollar bill across the back or larger. There was a carnival atmosphere in the town that I assume went on year round. There I ate at a place that had the best clam chowder I have ever eaten.
Just because I had never been to California and wanted to add that to my bucket list, my kids had other ideas wanting to stay the 2nd night in Seaside. They won. So, that is the closest I've ever been to Californy. From my perspectives today, glad I listened to the kids!🙂
Brookwood, that was probably Mo's clam chowder. It is really, really good clam chowder!!!
Mo's used to have little chowder shacks up and down the coast. I remember eating in the one in Newport when I was just a kid ('68?) and wondering how something so slimy could taste so darn good!
Was the candy shop still playing “The Candyman”? Good lord a few days of that would drive a man insane.
Another surrealistic September 1941 view ,,, 😊
September 1941. "By the Pacific Ocean. Seaside, Oregon." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
If you catch it just right it doesn't look a lot different today.
Fortunately for me and the way my mind works, bad memories of things like bad music are quickly erased from my cranial spaces. 😁 Sadly however, whenever a crappy song like Candyman is mentioned,.....The instant replay comes on with near perfect stereo fidelity sound and in all my years I cannot find the OFF switch! I'm now set with Sammy Davis Jr.'s version of the tune. 😫
The entire week spent on my trip along the west coast and seeing the Pacific Ocean for the first and only time was rather disappointing. Heavy thick FOG was present the entire time. No panoramic views of the open sea at all. On the beach watching my kids play, they would disappear at about 10 yards distance in that fog!
I actually prefer the orange sherbet in Bandon to seafood and candy.😊
This is looking North towards the turn around that geeshots posted "Another surrealistic September 1941 view"
https://livebeachcam.net/seaside-oregon-live-webcam-oceanfront-promenade-new/
Just north of Seaside is Greys Harbor, where the fishing fleet lives. They’ll take you out over the Colombia Bar into deep blue water, we fished for Lingcod. Man those things are big, and tasty!!!
I think you're thinking of Warrenton. Greys Harbor is up in Wasington just west of Olympia. I've fished out of both and would rather go out of Greys Harbor than Warrenton. The Columbia bar is scary at times!
Yep you’re right! Been a long time since then. That ride over the Bar had a pucker factor right up there.