fromPortland Monthly
4 days agoThe Boom-and-Bust Histories Behind 8 Oregon Ghost Towns
On a narrow spit of sand on Tillamook Bay, this "Atlantic City of the West" rose in the early 1900s with a dance hall, 1,000-seat movie theater, bowling alley, bandstand for live music, and heated saltwater swimming pool with a wave generator. Began sliding into the sea by 1926. Final building swallowed up in 1971. Bridal Veil Columbia River mill town near falls of the same name.
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