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Month: June 2016

Slipcovers!

Slipcovers!

Our big old chair! … (Doesn’t everybody have one of these somewhere?) We have had this big oversized brownish/sage green chair for many, many years over at little Sea Star Cottage. We bought it at a second-hand furniture store in Seaside because we needed a big chair and it was the only one we could afford at the time.  The color was fairly neutral and it has held up to many years of little kids and teenagers. It’s not really very beachy…. but it worked and it…

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Days Gone by in Gearhart…..

Days Gone by in Gearhart…..

Welcome to the summer season on the coast!  Here are just a few pictures and postcards I have collected from days gone by in Gearhart Park and a little history…The original village or town of Gearhart was actually a planned resort – the first planned coastal resort community in Oregon.  It was platted and incorporated in 1890 by Marshall and Narcissa Kinney. The original Gearhart Park was on all the land between present day Cottage Avenue, Railroad Avenue on the east side of Hwy…

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