James Beard learned to cook in Gearhart’s summer kitchens
The cook and food writer James Beard spent childhood summers at Gearhart and wrote about the clams, crab and berries of the North Coast all his life.
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Ben Holladay, the transportation baron who started Seaside as a resort
Stagecoach and railroad promoter Ben Holladay built the Seaside House hotel in the 1870s, giving the town its name and its start as a resort.
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Before Hollywood, Clark Gable spent a season in Astoria
In the early 1920s, a young Clark Gable joined a traveling theater troupe that landed in Astoria, where he met his first wife and acting coach.
