Polk's Astoria City and Clatsop County Directory, 1925, Part 1

Author: R. L. Polk & Co.
Publication date: 1925
Publisher: R. L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 280


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CITY LUMBER & SUPPLY CO.


26th and Franklin Ave. Tel. 275 ASTORIA


Columbia Iron & Steel Works ENGINEERS, MACHINISTS, FOUNDERS


Portable Electric and Oxy-Acetylene Welding Machines


Port Terminals Tel. 413


ASTORIA


FRANK PATTON, President P. J. BRIX, Vice Pres.


AUSTIN OSBURN, Vice-Pres.


M. E. MASTERSON, Cashier A. W. STINE, Asst. Cashier HARRY KNOKEY, Asst. Cashier


ASTORIA SAVINGS BANK


Capital Pak In $200,000.00 Surplus and Undivided Profits $220,000.00 TRANSACTS A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS Draw Car Own Drafts on All the Principal Cities of the World


Successor to Successor to I. W. LOVELL & SON


SCOW BAY FOUNDRY


ASTORIA FOUNDRY


J. W. LOVELL, Propr. Foundry and Pattern Shop IRON AND BRASS CASTINGS Phone 257 18th and Franklin ASTORIA, OREGON


BUILDING CONSTRUCTION CABINET WORK


PHONE 1457


Rohaut & Gearhart GENERAL CONTRACTORS 219 Associated Building


BRIDGE and ROAD CONSTRUCTION FLOOR SANDING


Real Estate


G. B. SHOEMAKER 191 Twelfth Street


Van Dusen & Co.


AND SURETY BONDS INSURANCE, REAL ESTATE 184 10th St. TELEPHONE 79


BUILDING MATERIAL COAL


ASTORIA, OREGON


BROOKFIELD QUARRY & TOWAGE CO.


TELEPHONE 859


MARBLE MONUMENTS


GRANITE


Astoria Granite Works


(PAUL D. THOMPSON, Prop.)


ALL GRADES OF CEMETERY AND BUILDING WORK FINISHED TO ORDER ALL ORDERS PROMPTLY EXECUTED 415 Taylor Ave. Tel. 1187 ASTORIA



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WHOLESALE AND RETAIL IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC WALL PAPER


Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Glass, Brushes, Wall Board, House Lining, Fiber Paper, Deadening Felt-The Headquarters for Artists' Materials, House Mouldings-Estimates Furnished on Painting and Decorating Without Charge


THE STORE OF QUANTITY AND QUALITY


We have a larger stock of Wall Paper and Paints than all other stores com- bined. You can get most everything in the line of Wall Paper and Paints that you will find in any large city.


WE CARRY RASMUSSEN'S PURE PAINT


Varnishes, 61 Floor Varnish and "VITRALITE," the Long Life White Enamel -Never Turns Yellow, Also the Wonderful "VITRALITE" Automobile Enamel


EFFECTO AUTO FINISHES Telephone 531 655 Commercial, Cor. 15th ASTORIA, ORE.


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POLK'S ASTORIA CITY


-and-


CLATSOP COUNTY


DIRECTORY Vol. 1925 XI.


Containing an Alphabetical List of Business Firms and Private Citizens of the Cities of


ASTORIA, SEASIDE, WARRENTON and WESTPORT


And a List of All Business Firms, Personal Taxpayers and Patrons on Rural Deliveries in the Towns and Villages of Clatsop County and a Complete


Business Directory of Clatsop County "The Buyers' Guide"


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Copyright, 1925, by R. L. Polk & Co., Portland, Oregon


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GENERAL INDEX


Abbreviations


Astoria


Astoria City Officials 14


Buyers' Guide


17


Classified Business Directory


227


Clatsop County Alphabetical List of Cities and Towns 219


220


Clatsop County Alphabetical List of Names


Seaside


180


Street and Avenue Guide 13


Warrenton


197


Westport


209


INDEX TO ADVERTISERS


Page


Ahrens M M Co .......


.backbone and


21


Astoria Evening Budget. 29


Astoria Commercial College


Astoria Electric Co. front edge


left top lines and 23


Astoria Foundry front cover and 28


Astoria Granite Works 2


Astoria National Bank back cover Astoria Savings Bank. front cover Astoria Shipping Co Inc.


right top lines and


35


Astoria Stationery Co right top lines and 31


Bankers Life Co. 26


right top lines and


Bloech Victor .bottom end and Brookfield Quary & Towage Co .... front cover and 20


Brown A L ........ left top lines and 33


City Lumber & Supply Co.


front cover and


27


Columbia


Harbor


Development


Co


26


Columbia Iron & Steel Works.


front cover and 28


Columbia Soda Works. left top lines and 35


Erickson Floral & Seed Co 23


Finnish Lutheran Book Concern .. right top lines and 30


Finnish Meat Market right top lines and 72


Finnish Mercantile Co


24


Troy Laundry


left top lines


Hauke E & Co.right top lines and 24


Hansen J H & Co


Hawkins E P. right top lines and 33 26


Hotel Astoria 26


Hughes E B ...... A B C Cards and 35


Kaleva Auto Co left bottom lines and 18 Karlson C W & Son .right top lines and 36


LaRose


Beauty


Shoppe


.back cover and 19


Larsen & Matta .. left top lines and 18


Laws W C & Co


right bottom lines and


33


Lovell Auto Co ...... back cover and


19


Lowe Martha H


left top lines and


20


Makela Henry & Son


left top lines and


22


Malarkey Leo J .... back cover and


22


Mogenson & Juopo


31


Nyquist Motor Car Co


right top lines and


19


Oregon Painting Co


right top lines and


31


Owen-Peeke Feed & Grain Co Inc


23


Pacific Development Society


left bottom lines and


30


3


Pacific


Machine &


Blacksmith


Co


left bottom lines and


28


Pacific Painting Co


left top lines and


31


Penney J C Co


right top lines and


22


Pohl & Gilbaugh


left top lines and


36


Rohaut & Gearhart


front cover and


22


Rosenberg Chas C C


32


St Mary's Hospital


25


Security & Finance Co Inc


left top lines and


27


Service Garage


18


Shoemaker G B.front cover and


33


Unique Tailors


20


Utzingers Book Store


right top lines and 19 Van Dusen & Co.front cover and 27


Welch-Webb Co Inc.


back cover and


34


Western


Machine and Welding


Johnson Optical Co


left top lines and


96


Works


right top lines and


29


Whitely-McDougle & Co.


left top lines and


18


Wilson Shipbuilding Co.


left top lines


Wilson's Studio


176


Ziem R B ....


right top lines and


35


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37


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FOREWORD


R. L. Polk & Co., Inc., herewith presents Volume XI of the Astoria City and Clatsop County Directory. The publishers have endeavored to produce a volume combining all that is vital in the civic, social and industrial life and activity of Astoria City and Clatsop County.


A careful enumeration of the citizens and the business in- terests, and a compilation of the results by trained employees assures as correct and reliable a work of this character as is possible to be produced. The publishers have an organization wholly devoted to the publication of Directories, and their methods and results are unrivaled. Their imprint on the hund- reds of Directories published for cities throughout the country attests the quality and reliability of their product. A Directory is an essential and indispensable means of reference and an index to what is in a city. It portrays the community as it actually is, as an important function of the Directory is to set forth the characteristics and advantages of the city as a place of residence, as a business location, as an industrial site and an educational


center. The Directory acts as a mirror, reflecting all that is noteworthy in the city and county in the above respects. It is a recognized standard work of reference, and becomes the most reliable history of the community and its citizens. As there is no other publication which gives the information contained in the Directory, there is probably no other publication in which all of the people are so vitally interested.


A complete index to contents will be found on page 6.


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ASTORIA


"THE GATEWAY OF THE PACIFIC TO THE COLUMBIA EMPIRE"


Oldest American city on the Pacific coast, Astoria is in one sense the newest and most modern.


Founded in 1811, the business section of the city was entirely destroyed by a conflagration Dec. 8, 1922, and has since been wholly reconstructed acocrding to the most modern practise in city planning and building.


Astoria was founded in 1811 by a trading party sent out by John Jacob Astor of New York, after whom the settlement was named. At that time there was no American settlement west of the Mississippi river.


The Columbia river, at the mouth of which the city stands, was discovered in 1792 by Captain Robert Gray of Boston, sail- ing the ship Columbia.


The site where the city was later established was visited in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark expedition. After the founding of the city by the Astor party it was seized by the British in the War of 1812 and renamed Fort George. Restored to the United States by the Treaty of Ghent, it has since remained an increas- ingly important center of American life on the Pacific coast.


HOME OF CHINOOK SALMON


Astoria is most widely known as the home of the Royal Chinook salmon. This salmon, which is without peer among the foodfish of the world, is caught only in the Columbia river and the industry connected with its catching and packing centers at Astoria. A score of salmon canneries and cold storage plants in and near the city produce a pack of salmon which averages about $8,000,000 in value. The industry employs thousands of men and women and is the third largest industry in the state of Oregon. Oregon's fisheries are concentrated at Astoria.


TIMBER


The city stands in the midst of one of the greatest timber belts in the entire world. Tributary to it is all of the timber along the Columbia river, as well as that along the coast for 100 miles south and 25 miles north of the Columbia river. Logging and lumbering have always been one of the essential industries of Astoria.


The value of the annual timber and lumber cut of Clatsop county of which Astoria is the county seat is conservatively esti- mated at $10,000,000.


SHIPPING A PRIMARY INDUSTRY


Shipping is one of the primary industries of the city, and is the newest in its development. While the city was founded as a seaport, its growth in maritime matters was hindered for nearly


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PORT OF ASTORIA


a century by the channel conditions at the mouth of the Columbia river.


The federal government has succeeded in eliminating this danger and today the Columbia river is characterized by war department engineers as having the safest entry of any bar har- bor in the entire world.


The largest vessels plying the Pacific enter and leave the Columbia river with ease and without danger at any time and at any condition of tide and weather. At the mouth of the river there is a channel with a minimum depth of 45 feet of water over a width of 1,200 feet, with a minimum depth of 40 feet of water at mean low tide existing over an entrance channel 6,000 feet in width.


Following the elimination of the Columbia river bar as an obstacle to shipping came the development of the Port of Astoria and its great terminal system.


Astoria lies at the gateway to the second most productive river basin in America. Its position places it at the tidewater terminus of the only water level railroad route through the Cas- cade or Sierra Nevada mountains down to the Pacific ocean. It is served directly by two transcontinental railroads, the Great Northern and Northern Pacific, operating to the city over the Spokane, Portland and Seattle railway, which they own jointly.


PORT IS MODERN ONE


With this strategic position as a basis, and assured of the perpetuity of a more-than-adequate harbor, the people of Clatsop county constructed the Port of Astoria terminals, a system of three gigantic piers and auxiliaries, costing more than $4,000,000. This terminal system and the rate and facilities which it affords has served to attract a vast amount of commerce and its busi- ness has not only grown but has multiplied. Each year since the war, when the real commercial history of the Port of Astoria as a maritime factor began, has seen a substantial growth in all departments of the business of the Port of Astoria, this growth sometimes being several times that of the preceding year.


Astoria is not yet a great seaport, but the constant nature of its rise and the undoubted advantages of its geographical position entitle it to a place in the front rank of Pacific ports.


The Port of Astoria terminals are models of their kind for the entire United States. They were constructed along most modern lines and with the advantage of being planned with a great ideal in view.


Astoria has regular and rapid freight service with all parts of the world. It enjoys equality of railroad and ocean freight rates. It is nearer the orient than any other Pacific port.


Its port terminals have become an industrial center, the exceptional facilities of transportaion, handling and storage


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which they offer serving to attract industrial concerns to cluster about the great transportation center.


Physically, the Port of Astoria has remarkable advantages.


Astoria has the largest fresh water harbor in the world. Floods and freshets do not effect it on account of the tidal action. Vessels are never subject to damage or delay on account of floating ice. The fog-bound hours are fewer than at any other Pacific coast seaport. The fresh water of the harbor kills marine growths and ships loading at Astoria leave with their bottoms cleaned of marine life.


IS A DAIRY PARADISE


The agricultural territory tributary to Astoria is of excep- tional fertility and advantages. The so-called tidelands, border- ing the Columbia river and its tributaries about the city, are deep alluvial deposits. They are diked after the fashion in Holland, but the tidal action drains them. There is no pumping and irri- gation is needless.


The mild, equable climate keeps pastures green throughout the year. Snow rarely lies on the ground for a week during the entire year. The summers are not hot and the pastures never burn.


Forage and root crops grow with exceptional ease and pro- ductiveness.


These factors make of the Astoria district a dairy paradise and dairying is the primary agricultural activity. In Astoria the dairy products are manufactured, and they enjoy a wide reputation throughout the west.


Poultry raising is another important agricultural activity. The availability of cheap logged-off land, the mild climate, the abundance of green feed, and a certain and active market have reacted to the advancement of the poultry business during recent years until it is second in importance to agricultural Clatsop county.


Cranberries are grown in the region about Astoria and they form an important crop, competing on more than equal terms with the best berries produced in the east. Phenomenal yields are frequently secured, production of 500 bushels to the acre not being unusual. Despite the fact that the Columbia cranberry bogs supply only one-fifth of the Pacific coast demand, less than a quarter of the land available for this crop is in production.


The existence of fireweed, a peculiar nectar-bearing flower which thrives in the logged-off lands, has given to Clatsop county a thriving honey industry and one which is growing with great rapidity. The fire-weed honey is water-white, heavy, fragrant and so rich that it enjoys a national reputation.


Astoria has an annual rainfall of less than 60 inches, and the precipitation is so well distributed throughout the year that crops are greatly benefitted.


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THE NEW ASTORIA (1925)


December 8, 1922, fire swept the heart of Astoria, leaving behind it a desert of ashes 40 acres in extent where the business district had been. The loss was in excess of $11,000,000. The peculiar nature of the city's construction before the fire left it in a pitiable condition afterward, with no streets penetrating the devastated district, where the ground level was nine feet below the streets.


The problems of reconstruction were tremendous.


Pass swiftly over those years of toilsome rebuilding. This booklet is not a record of past dramas, of deeds done. It is a record of the attainments of the present-and it attempts a glimpse into the future.


THE NEW ASTORIA


Today Astoria is the only city in America up to many times its size with a sub-surface wiring system throughout its business district.


In the reconstruction its streets were widened to care for the peculiar needs of the modern multiplying motor traffic. The streets are of heavy concrete construction, with tunnels beneath for the carrying of service pipes and wires.


More than $7,000,000 has been spent in this reconstruction. Nearly 100 new, modern, fireproof buildings have arisen since the fire. Their construction has been governed by a strict build- ing code carrying the most modern requirements and provisions.


The pavement is of concrete seven inches in thickness throughout the entire business district.


The streets are brilliantly and beautifully lighted with an ornamental street illuminating system which lifts gleaming opalescent globes on the peaks of attractive pressed metal stand- ards in ordered ranks along the thoroughfares. The lights are controlled by a master switch system, the illumination starting automatically as darkness makes the light needed.


No ugly wires and poles clutter the air above the streets and walks. No power lines carry danger through the atmosphere. All are conducted beneath the streets in tunnels.


The pavement carries no car tracks to catch wheels and slow up traffic. The City's traction needs are met by the operation of a modern motor bus system in which giant motor street cars carry the intra-city passengers more rapidly, more comfortably and more efficiently than did ever the street railway which they superceded.


The strict building code under which the new Astoria was built made the city's business section practically fireproof. There are no flimsy structures, no fire-traps, no ugly, antiquated build- ings. Every business structure in downtown Astoria has been built since Jan. 1, 1923, and everyone is constructed as only a building can be built which embodies all of the latest ideas in the planning and construction of business edifice.


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INSURANCE RATES ARE LOW


The result of this modern construction, coupled with the operation of the city's highly efficient fire department and the new fire alarm telegraph system, has been insurance rates which have practically reached the absolute zero. Where before the fire disaster, insurance rates in Astoria were extremely high, the lessons learned in the school of fire, employed in the planning and development of the new city, have brought insurance rates to a point than which there is no lower.


Astoria's water supply comes through a new 21-inch steel pipe line from the head waters of Bear creek, 12 miles east of the city. The supply is pure and adequate. No typhoid or other disease has ever been traced to the city's water supply.


The post-disaster Astoria is admirably supplied with modern hotel buildings. Where hotel accommodations were a problem before the Great Fire, the supplying of this necd was one of the first considerations in the reconstruction of the city.


The primary element in Astoria's hotel system is, of course, the Hotel Astoria, an eight-story structure, building at a cost of $400,000, but public subscription, so that it is essentially a com- munity enterprise.


In addition to this hostelry, which is without equal in the entire state of Oregon, excepting Portland, there are five other entirely new and modern hotels with still others in prospect. Astoria needs more hotels than the average city of its size because of the immense tourist trade which flows down the Columbia to Astoria in the summer season.


In the readjustment after the fire, the obsolescent street rail- way system was discarded in favor of modern motor bus service.


Astoria has embarked upon an extensive school construction program as a postscript to its rebuilding. It has greatly improved its water system. Its electric power supply has been more than doubled.


EVEN GOVERNMENT MODERN


Even the city's government is modern. Providentially, with- in three weeks from the time the city was destroyed by fire, a new charter became effective, putting the city manager form of gov- ernment at the reins.


The results have been reflected in the astonishing recovery of the city from its ashes. Not only was the reconstruction com- plete within less than two years after the holocaust, but the city had actually attained a more sane and stable basis than before it was scourged with flame.


Despite the burdens of reconstruction, Astoria's public credit is far better than before the disaster, a consummation attribut- able directly to the operation of the city manager form of gov- ernment and to the willingness of the reawakened citizenry to face facts and to meet them.


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STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE (1925)


Seated upon one great peninsular ridge protruding into the Columbia estuary, Astoria queens it over the Gateway to the Columbia Empire. The Columbia river, seven miles wide, lies to the north. Young's river, a mile wide, is at the city's back. Westward is the sea-and eastward is all the wealth of the Co- lumbia basin.


The climate of Astoria is beneficent. The annual rainfall averages about 60 inches. The lowest temperature shown by records running back over many years was eight degrees above zero. The hottest day on record saw the mercury at 90.5 degrees. Annual total snowfall averages three inches. The average mean temperature throughout the year is 50.43 degrees. The mean average for winter is 43.95 degrees; for spring, 52.80 degrees; for summer, 59.48 degrees; for fall, 45.5 degrees.


IS A TOURIST CENTER


Astoria stands at the junction of two of America's greatest highways, the Columbia River Highway which follows the great stream down from the heart of the continent to the sea at Astoria, and the Roosevelt Highway which parallels the Pacific coastline at the very edge of the breakers.


The first of these great roads is completed and is known throughout the world for its scenic wonders. The second is being finished rapidly and within a handful of years will rank with the greatest of tourist-calling roads.


Astoria is the center of a vacation wonderland. At its doors are the Oregon coast resorts, dominated by Seaside, the premier watering place of the Pacific Northwest. Ranking next to Sea- side are Gearhart, Cannon Beach, Astor Beach and a long list of other famous resorts.


Astoria extends a welcome to the tourist, to the manu- facturer, to the shipper, to the farmer, to the home-seeker and the home-builder. She extends not only a welcome, but an oppor- tunity.


Old in years, Astoria is young in prospects.


ASTORIA STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE


The streets within the city of Astoria running north and south are numbered from First to 57th, the numbers running from west to east. First street being on the west boundary line of McClure's Astoria and 57th on the east boundary line of Van Dusen's Astoria.


The streets running east and west beginning at the water- front are named as follows: Front (water), Astor, Bond, Com- mercial, Duane, Exchange, Franklin avenue, Grand avenue, Harrison avenue, Irving avenue, Jerome avenue, Kensington avenue, Lexington avenue, Madison avenue, Niagara avenue, Klatskanie avenue, Clatsop, McClure, Whatcom and Olney.


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In Alderbrook, the most easterly addition to Astoria, the streets beginning at the waterfront are Ash, Birch, Cedar, Date, Elm, Fir, Gentian, Hemlock, Ironwood, Juniper, Kingwood, Larch, Maple and Natle.


In Taylor's addition, the westerly point of the city, begin- ning at the waterfront, are Taylor avenue, Alameda avenue, Co- lumbia avenue, Grand avenue and Harrison avenue. Crossing these from north to south, and beginning at the next street west of First, are Hume avenue, Lincoln avenue, Melbourne avenue, Kingston avenue, Ilwaco avenue and Hull avenue.


Central addition is south of Niagara avenue between 2d and 12th, streets running east and west beginning with Lewis ave- nue, Milton avenue, Nile avenue, Ohio avenue, Potomac ave- nue, Quebec avenue and Olney avenue.


Smith's Point is the extreme western point of Astoria. The avenues running north and south along Youngs Bay are Dres- den avenue, Antwerp avenue, Bristol avenue, Chelsea avenue, Denver avenue, Frankfort avenue, Rees avenue, and Fern avenue.




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