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POLK'S ASTORIA
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CITY DIRECTORY VOL. 1942 XVII
ontaining an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Private Citizens of the Cities of
ASTORIA, SEASIDE, WARRENTON and WESTPORT
. Directory of Householders, Tenants of Office Buildings and Other Business Places and Street and Avenue Guide of Astoria. Rural Mail Routes for the Towns of Astoria, Seaside and Warrenton.
ALSO A BUYERS' GUIDE And a Complete CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY For Detailed Contents See General Index
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GENERAL INDEX
Abbreviations 12
Astoria Alphabetical List of Names. 13
Astoria City Officials. 20
Astoria Householders' Guide 181
Buyers' Guide
opposite 296
Classified Business Directory 297
Clatsop County Rural Routes 351
Seaside Alphabetical List of Names 225
Warrenton Alphabetical List of Names. 271
Westport Alphabetical List of Names 289
INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
Page numbers below refer to the Buyers' Guide
ASTORIA
Astoria Abstract Co bottom edge and 2
Astoria Chamber of Commerce 3
Astoria Florist. right top lines and 12
Astoria Foundry
12
Astoria Lumber Co. 19
Astoria Office Appliance Co
left top lines and 22
Astoria Business College.
right side lines
Astorian Budget Publishing Co right top lines and 21
Brookfield Co
front cover and 6
City Lumber & Supply Co front cover and 19
Columbia Hospital front cover and 15
Columbia Oil Co. left side lines
Commercial Adjustment Co
front cover and 8
Commercial Hotel 16
Eastern Outfitting Co 7
Erickson Floral Co
left side lines and 12
B inside front cover
Fearey Bros.
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Finnish Market & Grocery back cover and 13
First National Bank of Portland
backbone and 4
Fisher Bros Co. left top lines and 14
Ginn's Funeral Home right side lines and 13
Imperial Grille 22
Lovell Auto Co 4
Lower Columbia Co-Operative Dairy Assn. top edge and 10
Lower Columbia Rating Bureau
front cover and 9
Merwyn Hotel.
right top lines and 16
Northwest Cities Gas Co. left side lines and 13
Owen-Peeke Co left top lines and 11
Pacific Machine & Blacksmith Co back cover and 5
Pacific Power & Light Co. left top lines and 11 Paragon Packing Co. left side lines
Portway Machine Works.
front cover and 20
Reith Floyd H right top lines and 18 Schorn's (Astoria) Mattress & Upholstering Co
right side lines and 21
Shaner & Co.
right side lines
Siddall Hotel
17
Sunflower Dairy
left side lines
Tidepoint Co. right top lines and 10 Union Fishermen's Co-Operative Packing Co ........ right side lines West Bond Market front cover Wilson Studio. right side lines and 22
SEASIDE
Seaside Publishing Co. 21
INTRODUCTION
R. L. POLK & CO., publishers of the Astoria City and Clatsop County Directory, as well as more than 700 other city, county, state and national directories, present to subscribers and the general public, this, the 1942 edition of the Astoria and Clatsop County Directory.
Confidence in the growth of Astoria and Clatsop County's industry, population and wealth, and in the advancement of its civic and social activities, will be created as sections of this directory are consulted, for the directory is a mirror truly reflecting the community to the world.
The enviable position occupied by R. L. POLK & CO.'s directories in the estimation of the public throughout the country, has been estab- lished by rendering the best in directory service. With an unrivaled organization, and having the courteous and hearty co-operation of the business and professional men and residents, the publishers feel that the result of their labors will meet with the approval of every user, and that the Astoria and Clatsop Couunty Directory will fulfill its mission as a source of authentic information pertaining to the city and county.
Five Major Departments
The several essential departments are arranged in the following order:
THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents, business firms and corporations for Astoria is included in pages 13 to 180. In pages 225 to 296 appears a directory of Seaside, Warrenton and Westport, arranged alphabetically by towns. This is the only record in existence that aims to show the name, marital status, occupation and address of each adult resident of Astoria, Seaside, Warrenton and Westport, and the name, official personnel, nature and address of each firm and corporation in these cities.
THE ASTORIA DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, TENNANTS OF OFFICE BUILDINGS, AND OTHER BUSINESS PLACES AND STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE, pages 181 to 224.
THE ASTORIA DIDECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, TENANTS paged from 1 to 22, printed on tinted paper, contains the advertisements of leading manufacturing, business and professional interests of Astoria and Clatsop County. These pages will be found particularly interesting and instructive to substantial purchasing factors. The advertisements have been carefully grouped by departments and are indexed under head- ings descriptive of the business represented. This is reference advertis- ing at its best, and, as such, merits a survey of all buyers eager to familiarize themselves with sources of supply. The community's activities in many interesting phases are authentically pictured. In an ambitious and progressive community like Clatsop County, the necessity of having this kind of information immediately available, is very great, and fre- quently pressing. General appreciation of this fact is evidenced by the liberal support the city directory enjoys in the many fields which it serves.
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THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY is included in pages 297 to 350. This department lists the various manufacturing mercantile and professional interests in alphabetical order under appropriate head- ings. This feature constitutes an invaluable and indispensable epitome of the business interests of the community. "The Directory is the common intermediary between Buyer and Seller." As such it plays no small part in the daily doings of the business world. "More goods are bought and sold through the Classified Business Directory than through any other medium."
THE CLATSOP COUNTY RURAL ROUTES DIRECTORY, covering the routes served by the Astoria, Seaside and Warrenton post offices, is included in pages 351 to 356.
Community Publicity
The directory reflects the achievements and ambitions of the com- munity, depicting in truthful terms what it has to offer as a place of residence, as a business location, as an industrial site and as an educa- tional center. To broadcast this information the publishers have placed copies of this issue of the directory in Directory Libraries, where they are rapidly available for free public reference, and serve as perpetual and reliable advertisements of Astoria and Clatsop County, for business men, everywhere, realize that the city directory represents a community as it really is.
The Astoria Directory Library
Through the courtesy of the publishers of the Clatsop County Direc- tory a Directory Library is maintained in the offices of Astoria Chamber of Commerce, 245 14th, for free reference by the general public. This is one of over 500 Directory Libraries installed in the chief cities of the U. S. and Canada by members of the Association of North American Directory Publishers, under whose supervision the system is operated.
The publishers appreciatively acknowledge the recognition by those progressive business and professional men who have demonstrated their confidence in the city directory as an advertising medium, with assurance that it will bring a commensurate return.
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City of Astoria "Home of the Royal Chinook Salmon"
Copyright, 1942, by R. L. Polk & Co., Seattle, Wash.
STATISTICAL REVIEW Prepared by the Astoria Chamber of Commerce
Form of Government-City Manager.
Population-Present Government estimate: 11,000.
Area-6.557 square miles.
Altitude-15 feet.
Climate-Mean annual temperature : 51.9 degrees. Annual rain- fall : 76.57 inches.
Parks-3 with 140 acres, valued at $175,000.
Assessed Valuation-$5,528,249, with $2.62 per $100 tax rate.
City's Bonded Debt-$2,538,100.
Financial-2 banks.
Post Office Receipts-$85,966.34 for year 1941.
Telephones in Service-3639.
Churches-20, representing 11 denominations.
Building and Construction-Total valuation of building permits issued for period of 12 months: Jan. 1, 1941, to Dec. 31, 1941, $419,583.00. For period of 12 months: July 1, 1941, to June 30, 1942, $425,610.00.
Industry-(1937 figures for Clatsop County Industries) 82 estab- lishments, 3,046 employees; $4,123,055 payroll ;; Value of Products, $21,401,418.)
Trade-Retail territory has a radius of 30 miles and serves 30,000 people.
Newspapers-1 daily, 1 weekly and 1 semi-weekly.
Hotels-8 principal with a total of 425 rooms.
Bus Lines-1, Oregon Motor Stages.
Railroads-1, Spokane, Portland & Seattle Ry. Co. Highways-Terminus of US No. 30, US No. 101, State No. 202. Airports-1, municipal.
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Amusements-2 theatres, with total seating capacity of 2,337. Large auditorium, seats 1,112 persons. 3 golf courses.
Hospitals-2, with 217 beds.
Education-5 schools, including 1 senior high and 1 parochial. Number of pupils in public schools, 1,637; Parochial, 118; Teachers in public schools: 71; Value of School Property (Public only) $589,194.
City Statistics-30 miles paved streets. Miles of sewers, 47.6; 2,730 water meters; 1,040 gas meters ; 7,000 light meters; Ca- pacity of water works (municipal), 6,000,000 gallons daily with daily average pump of 2,000,000 gallons; 42.8 miles of mains and plant valued at $1,009,009.85. Fire department em- ploys 16 men, with 1 auto, 2 500-gal. pumpers, 1 triple com- bination machine, three hose and chemical wagons and 1 hook and ladder truck in 3 station houses. Value of fire department real estate and equipment, $130,000. Police de- partment has 16 men with 1 station and 3 pieces of motor equipment. Value of police department real estate and equip- ment, $40,000, plus two-way radio.
HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE
Astoria and Clatsop County are rich in historic interest and importance. Early events occurring here had far reaching ef- fects, eventually resulting in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest becoming a part of the United States instead of the possession of a foreign power.
Urged on by the desire to find a fabled "Northwest Passage" by water across the North American continent, Spanish and British explorers had sailed along the Oregon and Washington coastline, but the Columbia River was not discovered until 1792, when Captain Robert Gray of Boston entered the river and named it after his ship, the "Columbia."
In 1804, President Jefferson appointed Captains Meriweather Lewis and William Clarke to head an expedition across the west- ern plains and mountains to the Pacific Ocean. Lewis and Clark explored the Lower Columbia region and spent the winter of 1805-1806 at Fort Clatsop, near Astoria.
In 1810, John Jacob Astor of New York organized the Pacific Fur Company to engage in the fur trade on the Columbia River. This company sent the ship "Tonquin" by sea and another party overland, the two to meet at the mouth of the Columbia River.
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The men in the "Tonquin" arrived at their destination in March, 1811, and built Fort Astoria, the first permanent American settlement on the Pacific Coast. After many hardships and loss of lives the overland party arrived in the winter of 1811. Due to the War of 1812 and the loss of relief ships, the fort passed into possession of the British, but was restored to the American flag in 1818.
During the following decades Astoria was the goal of trad- ers, explorers, missionaries and pioneer settlers, and on the shores of the Columbia are the last resting places of many of these early intrepid adventurers. These historic events are illustrated on the pictorial frieze surrounding the main portion of the Astor Column, a concrete monolith 125 feet high, located on Coxcomb Hill, overlooking a scenic panorama of mountains, ocean and rivers. This unique monument is the only one of its kind in the United States and attracts thousands of visitors annually.
Astoria today is a modern city of about 11,000 population, the commercial, financial and shipping center of the Lower Co- lumbia River district of Northwestern Oregon and Southwestern Washington. Most of the Astoria business district was rebuilt following a disastrous fire in 1922 and its stores and office build- ings are a credit to a city of its size.
Astoria is the headquarters of the Columbia River fishing industry and along its waterfront are many plants engaged in canning, curing and freezing fish. Here is the largest flour mill in Oregon. Other manufactured products are butter, ice cream, powdered milk, lumber, veneer, fish oils and meal and a number of specialty products. Many of these plants are open to visitors.
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