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SUMMARY:The Auto Era: Cars Come to the Beach
DESCRIPTION:The Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum in Ilwaco announces the op
 ening of a new special exhibit\, “The Auto Era: Cars Come to the Beach.
 ” The show will run August 9th to October 19th\, 2024. An opening recept
 ion will be held August 9th\, from 5:00pm to 7:00pm at the museum.\nBy the
  mid-1920s the railroad era and the grand hotels of the North Beach Penins
 ula were on the wane. The era of the automobile had begun. Highways were b
 uilt from Olympia and Chehalis to South Bend and beyond to the beaches of 
 our community bringing auto tourists from the Seattle area. Portland auto 
 tourists arrived from across the river. In 1920\, Captain Fritz Elfving of
  Astoria began to carry both people and autos from the dock at McGowan to 
 Astoria and back with his tug and a barge. By 1921\, he put into service a
  ferry called the “Tourist” and in 1924\, he had purchased and added a
  second\, larger ferry\, the Tourist No. 2.\nThe Auto Era had arrived! Thi
 s exhibition will explore the impact of auto tourism on the North Beach Pe
 ninsula. From auto races on the beach to the rise of the motel industry\, 
 the automobile has changed how the community grew and the kind of business
  that thrived from then to now.\nEarly automobile travel enthusiasts were 
 middle-class city residents wealthy enough to own cars. Across the country
  it had become wildly popular to leave the city for vacation and shun hote
 ls in favor of camping in the open countryside.\nAn article in the Oregon 
 Daily Journal (May 29\, 1921) describes the first auto camps.\n“To prepa
 re for the expected auto tourists the North Beach community have establish
 ed five free auto camps\, located at Chinook\, Ilwaco\, Seaview\, Long Bea
 ch and Ocean Park. There are three active tourist associations in operatio
 n on North Beach\, the Ocean Beach Tourist association of Seaview and simi
 lar associations at Long Beach and Ocean Park. With Mrs. Lyniff of Long Be
 ach I visited the newly opened auto tourist camp. The citizens have cleare
 d five acres in a grove near the railroad track within sight and sound of 
 the sea\, have fenced it\, equipped it with tables\, and benches and have 
 constructed five ovens of brick with steel plates for cooking and have put
  water pipes though the grounds and erected comfort stations and provided 
 plenty of free wood.”\nLong a popular tourist destination\, the North Be
 ach Peninsula had to adapt to the arrival of the automobile. Auto courts\,
  motels\, drive-in restaurants\, and more came on the heels of this transf
 ormation and have helped form what is popularly called the Long Beach Peni
 nsula that we know today.\nAdmission to the Columbia Pacific Heritage Muse
 um is free thanks to the Port of Ilwaco and members of the Rising Tide Mem
 bership Level. The museum is open Wednesday through Saturday from 10:00am 
 to 4:00pm.
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LOCATION:Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum\, 115 SE Lake Street\, Ilwaco\, W
 A\, 98624\, Columbia Pacific\, United States
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