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Garibaldi is the next town on the road, a little fishing port on the north end of Tillamook Bay but, this being Oregon, fishing wasn't always what it was all about. Not near all those forests.
About 800 people live there today. It was bigger in the past, but not by all that much. When you come into Garibaldi, you'll notice two things: the big letter G on the hillside overlooking the town, and a tall smokestack.
Back in the early part of the 20th Century, a lot of lumber came off those Coast Range hillsides, and a fair portion of it came through the lumber mill in the town which was at a spot that is, today, basically the east end of Main Street. It was owned by a number of people, most notably a coastal lumber baron named Hammond, and in 1927 the smokestack was constructed to keep mill emissions from settling directly on the town.
It's almost a century old and is undoubtedly one of the tallest man-made things on the Oregon Coast.
For my money, though, the real tragedy is what used to be on the northwest corner of 7th and Garibaldi. In all the world there are, it seems more names for
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thrift shops than there are thrift shops. Or maybe there are too many thrift shops. But, for a brief, shining moment about a decade back, and it didn't seem too long, there was a second-hand store there with the best second-hand store name ever (and I will fight you on this):
STUFF and THINGS.
Which is what we say around here when we're woolgathering. You know. That something you can't remember. With the stuff and the things.
Stuff and Things ... I'm sorry we missed you.
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