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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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Old Family Photos From Seaside

Old Family Photos From Seaside

I came across a photo album in a box of my father’s things and found all these great pictures of my dad and his family spending time in Seaside back in the 1930’s and 1940’s.  I had never seen these before – sure wish my dad was still here to tell me about them! My great-grandparents, Giovanni and Anna Maria, built this house on the South Prom in Seaside way back in the 1920’s and the family owned it up until the late…

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