Posted on 06/15/2021 9:05:01 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Who even goes to Butthead anymore? Its almost as bad as downtown.
He’s out of jail now and has been popping up all around town.
Campbell s quite the POS
Get the heck outta town. I wasn’t in Atlanta for Young or Jackson and I don’t know much about Young, but the 5 that came after him were/are so incredibly corrupt it’s mind boggling.
How is Kennesaw area?
The ‘70s....pretty good time for Coos Bay. The difference between then and now is staggering. Between the enviros attacking everything but the tourist industry, and the increase in drug abuse, you might not recognize the area. Used to have Japanese sailors walking in downtown. Now, it’s stoned homeless people.
The local school district recently passed a huge bond measure. Crazy. They’re building new schools, but I don’t know who’ll attend them. One of their talking points in the campaign was that the area couldn’t attract and retain good doctors because of the poor condition of the schools. From what I’ve heard, doctors liked the area just fine. But their wives hated it. The Gay ‘90s Celebration in Coquille was about as close to culture as the area offered.
You know what the area offers...you were in the heart of the dunes, and near the beaches.
I worked there during the summer of ‘74. I went back about 20 years later in the mid or late 1990s and was shocked to see all of the lumber, pulp and paper had almost completely disappeared and replaced by Indian casinos. We went from a productive society in the area making real products used by real people to sucking up money from poor people. I was so saddened by what I saw.
I’m sure it’s even worse today with all the drugs and bums.
I remember Coos Bay at the time looked to be a bit of a rough place, kind of like the western lumber and pulp towns, but on the coast. At least it was working-man rough, not useless stoned druggie rough.
I’m surprised it’s that little.
I used to go to the chattahoochee River raft thing....1970s
Atlanta was the capital of the south then.....fun place
Place people sang about for the women
That ship sure sailed though you can see vestiges in Roswell and so forth north on weekend nights when the women are out
Exact formula for our town 15 miles outside a mid-states large city. Our HOA didn't allow renting out properties until the Bush-Obama recession, and as soon as they allowed it, the county swooped in and injected Section 8s. Our dues went from under $20 to almost $80 per month to take care of all the renter's trash and lack of maintenance. The bills should, according to the by-laws, be sent to the remote owners; but of course, all wipepo were driven off the board by accusations of racism for wanting to enforce the by-laws, so... now this one's husband and that one's cousin get paid for hauling bulk trash, "fixing" vandal damages, etc.
"Access" and "public transportation" are two of the often-heard buzzwords when the entitled folks lodge their complaints about the suburbs. When they built the train lines near our mall to accommodate whining, the mall and movie theater soon collapsed.
It has always amazed me that the epicenter for snobbery towards southern whites comes from the whitest states in the union, Oregon and Washington, with a little help from New England thrown in.
When I lived in Manhattan it struck me the self righteous prejudice towards southern whites and rural folks in general as though urban educated whites had accomplished something superior or simply knew better
I also noticed they had very little experience with black people. They rode by them in their trains from Connecticut or Westchester or Long Island or in their cars on the Major Deegan or Cross Bronx
But otherwise had little interaction with blacks ...a few suburbs like Newburgh had blacks or Newark obviously but they were segregated
My girlfriend taught at Barnard and all her colleagues were white....that would likely be different now admittedly
But until you’ve lived in a majority black environment it’s difficult to grasp
In High School, there was some kind of goofy contest to come up with a new tourist slogan for Maryland.
That was my submission “Maryland; Almost West Virginia”.
It did not win.
:D
A girl can dream...
Coos Bay has never been much to look at. If you drove in from the south in the ‘70s, there were cheap motels, a car wash, a school...the 7-11 was probably brand new, one of seven that sprung up in a short time. Half of one of the hotels remains, occupied by an adult “book store.” The elementary school, in reduced capacity, sits across Highway 101. The other half of the motel burned. A motel a hundred yards away burned, and sat as a ravaged hulk for years, spray painted with the name of the insurance company that balked at paying a claim. It was eventually demolished, as was the car wash. They remain vacant lots, decades later. 7-11 is still there, and the county Republican HQ sits across 101. There are three marijuana dispensaries, down from four, within a half mile of entering town. I think the greater Coos Bay/North Bend area, 30K people, has been served by two liquor stores since the ‘70s. There are probably a dozen MJ dispensaries, today.
It was a good place to grow up. There may have been better, but I have no doubt that there are worse. After all, Greenacres is the place to be. I do not value it any less than Cornell, and on the whole would rather be governed by people from there than from Ithaca.
POF—oddly enough, after looking at your profile-—I’ve ended up in Ontario, but had a previous Canadian connection—a great-great-Grandfather who emigrated from England to South Dakota but in his spare time also homesteaded up in Alberta near Rocky Mountain House in a place that was in the family until a decade or so ago.
Is it really busier than Portland? 42 and 38 are garbage, and there is no east-west rail, so it is a beautiful port that might as well be in Hawaii.
All of the other ports in the state combine being lousy ports with lousy east-west access—I can’t even guess which one is third.
Reading further I see I have largely repeated your points.
Any idea who is third in the state?
Astoria, I would think. Looks like it’s a cruise port. Any others that come to mind are fishing fleet ports. Newport may have something else going on.
Astoria used to have a naval base. My grandfather was posted there in the late 50’s (but his line was in the state long before then—his grandmother is buried in Salem and loads of her kids settled in the Valley). They all came out of south-western Missouri, not far from the part of Arkansas that the Hamptons are from.
That said, if one is shipping east, one might as well keep sailing up the Columbia.
My G-G-Grandfather and family landed in Ontario from England in 1866. After 17 years there, he packed up the family and moved to a homestead in Sask. where they lived in a sod house for 9 years. Like so many others, he took advantage of the free land on the prairies.
His son moved west to Red Deer in 1906 which is only 50 miles from Rocky Mountain House. Only four years after that, they moved to Creston, BC and ran a fruit orchard for decades. I think growing fruit was an easier occupation than growing wheat on the prairies.
I just read a great town story about Red Deer. So many of the prairie towns had their Centennial Celebrations around 2000 and many published histories of their town. Our family name was mentioned quite a few times in the history book.
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