THINGS TO DO IN ASTORIA ORGEON
Things to do in Astoria, Oregon. Astoria Trolley and BowPicker Fish and Chips in Astoria, Oregon are must see.
Old 300 was built in 1913 by the American Car Company of St. Louis, Mo., for the San Antonio Traction Company in Texas. This group of cars was numbered 300 to 313 and had composite car bodies constructed from both wood and steel. Similar cars, 314 – 325, came from American Car in 1914 and had steel bodies. In 1917 the San Antonio Traction Co. became part of The San Antonio Public Service Co.
Streetcar service in San Antonio officially ended April 29, 1933, though some cars remained in service occasionally through the July 4th weekend. This was due to slow delivery of new buses and a higher than expected rate of breakdowns of buses.
Car 300 was presented to the Witte Museum on Sunday, April 29, 1933 with great fanfare. The car was run onto the museum grounds under its own power and parked. (Witte Museum is the precursor, and an important part now, of the San Antonio Museum Association.) Old 300 was left outside, with little maintenance, until 1948. It then received housing and a superficial restoration, including filling rotted areas with plaster. Traction motors, air compressor, and resistors were loaned out to another operation during World War II and never returned. In 1968, after the San Antonio World’s Fair, a Transportation Museum was developed at the downtown fairground. Car 300 was again placed on outdoor, unsheltered display until 1980, by which time it had a rather terminal case of rot.
The initial 1980-81 restoration ultimately required the use of car body 311, which had been scrapped in 1933. It had been placed under a metal shed and served as a woman’s residence until 1978, when she entered a rest home. Mrs. Rhoda Billings donated her home for this restoration. 300’s interior fittings and brass window sashes were used in this restoration. Broad-gauge New Orleans trucks and traction motors were acquired in Shreveport and “standard gauged,” which means that the wheels were spaced 4’ 8 1/2” apart to fit on standard tracks.
Old 300 is still the property of the San Antonio Museum Association. However, it has been in the Pacific Northwest for more than 10 years. For about five years, Old 300 ran on the Willamette Shore Trolley line from Portland to Lake Oswego. Then for the next five years the trolley went to Gales Creek, where another restoration was begun and Old 300 ran at the Glenwood Trolley Park. The Glenwood Trolley Park was shutting down operations when the City of Astoria was made aware of the availability of Old 300. Old 300 was leased from San Antonio for five years at $1 per year, and brought to the MERTS facility in December 1998 for restoration.
The most recent restoration of Old 300 was completed by an all-volunteer group of Astoria residents during the first five months of 1999. Considerable wood rot on one side below the windows was repaired. The exterior canvas roof of the trolley was re-covered, the interior bead-board ceiling installed, and the electrical systems repaired. The interior and exterior were painted. A diesel generator was acquired, and the generator trailer fabricated. More than $20,000 was raised (and spent), and nearly 3,000 man-hours were donated. As motormen and conductors, we all share a burden of responsibility not only for the safety of our passengers, but also for the continued preservation of Old 300.
Bowpicker Fish & Chips
Beer battered Albacore tuna and steak fries!
--- The breaded fish at Bowpicker is 100 percent Pacific Coast albacore tuna, the steak of the sea, caught by local fishermen and fried lightly in a golden batter. Firm chunks of Albacore tuna lightly beer battered and fried to perfection by Ron and Linda. They stand ready to soak up malt vinegar and scoop tartar sauce. The bed of thick steak fries, crunchy outside and tender inside, are much more than a side dish. For $11, you get five chunks of breaded albacore on top of a bed of steak fries.
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OpSail '76, NYC (US Bicentennial, from boat)
From friends' home movies. OpSail 1976 in NYC. Parade of Ships.
If you can ID any of the ships here, please do so in the comments. Thanks!
We start on Long Island Sound. Highlights include (in order but skipping some):
a 3 masted schooner, a nice motor yacht, we pass under the Throggs Neck or Whitestone bridges, a 2 masted schooner w/ red sails and 4 jibs!, the Gladan - a Swedish Navy training ship, a police car by a sewage treatment plant, an old Chris Craft, 3 masted schooner w/ 3 jibs passes by a Con Ed power plant (on E 14 St?), a Cibro oil tank farm, some flags under a bridge (NY State, US and NYC), the Hell's Gate bridge, a boat named Captain Crunch, some people on top of a building with streamers, a Pine Tree flag (An Appeal to ? Liberty?), lots of people lined up along the East River, a British flag on an office building, the United Nations, other buildings near it including the Chrysler Building, a nice sloop, the Statue of Liberty, a boat lit at night. (I'm guessing they spent the night in NYC but it could be an out of order scene.)
An unknown Coast Guard ship, an aircraft carrier, an orange and black tugboat, Fort Wadsworth?, a red tugboat, lots of people lined up along the shore, a Navy ship (#6 - where is this from?), another Navy ship (or the same one?), a motor launch from the Australian navy (see flag), a repair ship of some sort (#40), a Navy ship from somewhere w/ the crew lined up on it, a fireboat, a blimp flying over it all, a 3 masted ship, F 763 - Le Boulonnais (French Navy), some guy in a kayak!, a nice shot of lower Manhattan w/ a fireboat spraying, someone playing the bagpipes on the bow of a boat w/ Ellis Island in the background, the Coast Guard's Eagle, a beautiful 3 masted barque w/ staysails, another beautiful 3 masted barque, another beautiful 3 masted barque w/ no sails set, a beautiful 4 masted barque w/ sails set, a railroad barge w/ specially decorated freight cars, a rowboat w a big American flag!,
Travelling up the jersey shore we see a 3 masted ship - fully set, a Welcome to the USA sign, a ship in dry dock, a Sunfish! and a canoe!, A 3 masted ship w/ set sails w/ the Empire State Building behind it, a Navy ship (#28, The USS Boone?), a 3 masted ship, a 4 masted ship w/ fully set sails, an interesting low-slung passenger motorboat, the Eagle again passing in front of a black-hulled ship, a beautiful 3 masted ship fully set w/ a blimp in view, a 3 masted ship no sails set, an unknown Navy ship, a beautiful 3 masted fully set ship, a 4 masted ship, ... a 2 masted schooner...
We see it is going to rain. A 3 masted ship, we raise sails, 3 masted fully set, 3 masted no sails set (black), 3 masted smaller boat not set (dark), a 3 masted ship not set (white), the Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge (Fort Washington Park, Jeffrey's Hook Light), a nice 2 masted boat goes under the GWB... a Canadian ship, a nice 2 masted ship sails set... planes/jets fly overhead and leave a trail, a boat w/ lots of flags - I freeze-framed it so you could look at all the flags, a Navy ship from Spain?, the HNLMS Tromp (Netherlands, F 801)... some nice small boats, the Sebbe Als - a Viking ship! from Denmark... unknown Navy ship, a Canadian Navy ship, an interesting 4 masted extended one-design? (in front of Riverside Cathedral and Grant's Tomb, 3 out of 4 sails set), HMS Lowestoft (F 103), a beautiful 3 masted ship with Maltese crosses on the sails, Juan Sebastian Elcano (see Spanish flag), an unknown Navy ship (#13), the South Street Seaport, crowds along the edge, preparing for the night's fireworks, NYC at night, the World Trade Center, Statue of Liberty, then fireworks! We end with the moon!
Charleston, South Carolina, to Wilmington, Delaware by Philip H. Elwood, 1931
Iowa State College landscape architecture professor Philip Elwood takes students on a tour of the southern and eastern United States. In Charleston S.C. they visit parks and charming gardens in the old section of town, the old cotton exchanges, Pringle House, old garden house, St. Phillips church, Pirates House, garden club walk, magnolia gardens owned by Mr. Hasty, and the modern Roebling garden designed by Mr. Briggs of New York.
Also they visited Middleton Gardens, ( Pringle Smith, Propr.), where they saw butterfly pools overlooking the Ashley River, the right wing of the Great manor House, a cypress lagoon, Spanish moss in the trees, and some of the great live oaks of the area. They also saw a two manpower lawnmower in action, informal lawn vistas through the camellias, giant azaleas, and the lotus gardens and bird sanctuary.
From there it was on north to Washington DC where they visited the Great Meridian Hill formal garden, had a panorama view of the city, and a close up inspection showing the pebbled surface concrete construction of the garden walls. They also visited the Pan-American buildings gardens where they had another view of the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, the new Arlington bridge, and the cathedral on Mt. St. Albans.
Near the cathedral they visited the Bishops garden and saw the entrance from the pilgrim steps and got another view of the city. They then went to the U.S. Capitol, saw Pennsylvania Railway Station, and the new Shakespeare building. From there they went to Annapolis, Maryland where they saw a hydroplane being lifted from the bay, barracks of the U.S. Naval Academy, war-time housing developments at Aberdeen that are now part of the US Veterans Hospital. It was then on to the city square in Wilmington Delaware.
National Capital Planning Commission (USA), July 2013
Proceedings from the July 11, 2013 Commission Meeting
Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)