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3 unusual facts about Coos Bay


Go Ask Alice

On pages 79–80, the text describes the girl living with a friend in Coos Bay, Oregon, where she enthuses over the Diggers' Free Store and the Psychedelic Shop – both establishments were actually in San Francisco.

A girl named Alice is mentioned briefly in one entry during the diarist's stay in Coos Bay, Oregon; she is an addict whom the diarist briefly meets on the street.

SS Charles W. Wetmore

Her career was short: she ran aground on 8 September 1892 in fog off Coos Bay, Oregon while carrying a load of coal from Tacoma, Washington bound for San Francisco.


ANT Coos Bay

The United States Coast Guard Aids To Navigation Team, ANT Coos Bay was established in 1976 and is located near the mouth of Coos Bay in the fishing and tourist community of Charleston, Oregon, southwest of the city of Coos Bay.

Philip Gale

Gale was survived by his mother Marie, who has a timber ranch in Broadbent, Oregon near Coos Bay, and sister Elizabeth.

Siuslaw River

The Coos Bay branch of the Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad crosses many bridges as it follows the narrow, winding valley of the Siuslaw River to the swing bridge at Cushman.


see also

Amite City, Louisiana

Joanne Verger, Oregon legislator and first woman mayor of Coos Bay, Oregon

Conde McCullough

After his death the state renamed the Coos Bay Bridge the Conde McCullough Memorial Bridge.

Coos Bay Wagon Road Lands

In 2011, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar endorsed a demonstration timber sale pilot project on federal forest lands along Coos Bay Wagon Road in coordination with two professors.

Coquille Indian Tribe

Parts of the communities of Bandon, Barview, Coos Bay, and North Bend extend onto reservation lands.

Dellwood, Oregon

Dellwood is the site of a Weyerhaeuser log yard and was once a log dump for sending rafts of logs downriver to Coos Bay for export.