[or-roots] Bayocean

[Gary Murray]

i have read many books on bayocean and have been ther hundreds of times.  i 
can no longer read books or the newspaper due to complications from 
diabetes.  at the entrance to the road that leads to bayocean is a large 
sign that gives some of the history of the area.  i can only comment on what 
was there about 4 years ago and contrary to some beliefs, the remains of the 
buckled road are still there.  the ocean has pounded over the area which was 
bayocean for many years but it is still quite an experience to walk the 
entire stretch of the roadway and beach area that once was bayocean.  the 
town itself was way before my time but i went to grade school in what is now 
a hall but then was hemlock grade school.  a two room school where my first 
teacher was mrs. cross.  i have some VERY old pics of the school and the 
area where it used to be.  before the river took out some of the road, a big 
draw was east beaver.  so much to see.   i really hope to get down there 
again and take somepics of the area.  i also have a really great pic of the 
entire school of hemlock which was taken when i was in the 7th or 6th grade. 
when i graduated from 8th grade at that school i was fortunate to graduate 
at the head of my class.  of course there was only four of us that 
graduated.  i have friends and relatives still in the netarts and garibaldi 
areas.  i have even walked to the big G above garibaldi many years ago.  as 
a class in grade school we were taken by but to the tillamook burn area and 
planted hundreds of trees.  we had a smoke house next to the woodshed that 
always seemed to be a'smokin.  my brother, who was a few years older than me 
used to gaff the salmon out of beaver creek.  illegal but sure tasted good. 
our neighbors were the fox family, the guthrie family, and the passwater 
family.  some are still there.
gary in az.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anne Billeter" <billeter at entwood.com>
To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Bayocean


Gary,

Are you familiar with the 1989 book by Bert Webber:  "Bayocean, the
Oregon town that fell into the sea."  ?

Anne Billeter
billeter at entwood.com


Gary Murray wrote:

>cape mears is so beautiful.  just before you drive into cape mears, or 
>about 2 miles back is what used to be the town of bayocean.  what a history 
>that place has.  i remember as a young kid when the natatorium broke up and 
>slid into the ocean.  i was there.  it is nice to take that road over to 
>where the town used to be and walk across to the beach.  if you walk 
>straight ahead on the road you will come to where the ocean dumps into 
>tillamook bay.  you can look directly across and see barview and that other 
>little town.  it is a great walk and you will see deer and ducks and all 
>kinds of things.  there is also a place where there is still some of the 
>pavement from the old road although it has buckled and is just laying in a 
>pile.  i came so close to buying 10 acres about 1/2 mile from the beach. 
>we lived 16 miles south of tillamook on hiway 101 and i had just had enough 
>of the beach and its weather.  i have been a lot of places but i have yet 
>to see any other beach that compares with the oregon coast.  i hope to go 
>back to oregon in august or sept. of this year for a month and hopefully i 
>will get to the coast.  i love to go by the old place.  i went to a two 
>room school in hemlock, which really doesn't exist anymore.  we were only 4 
>miles from the thriving metropolis of beaver, ore.
>gary in az.
>
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