Where have you been on your Harley?
#122
09-15-2018, 09:32 PM
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I love Newport..... I have stayed there a couple of times in my Journeys up and down the coast. Such a cool bridge.
Edit..... about that Bridge.... I was just reminiscing and was thinking about Ken Keseys book “Sometimes A Great Notion”. Just about my favorit book ever. I read it about the time I was Logging on one of the High Lead Shows in Hope BC. If my memory serves me well, some of Paul Newman’s movie was filmed there. That book, and movie, was my first introduction to Oregon. I made my first drive down the coast in the mid 70’s. With many many rides up and down over the years. But every time I ride over that bridge , I look for Henry Stampers one finger salute tied to a mast of tug pulling a bunch of logs ......
Edit..... about that Bridge.... I was just reminiscing and was thinking about Ken Keseys book “Sometimes A Great Notion”. Just about my favorit book ever. I read it about the time I was Logging on one of the High Lead Shows in Hope BC. If my memory serves me well, some of Paul Newman’s movie was filmed there. That book, and movie, was my first introduction to Oregon. I made my first drive down the coast in the mid 70’s. With many many rides up and down over the years. But every time I ride over that bridge , I look for Henry Stampers one finger salute tied to a mast of tug pulling a bunch of logs ......
Last edited by CanadianRocky; 09-15-2018 at 10:32 PM.
#123
09-16-2018, 12:34 PM
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I love Newport..... I have stayed there a couple of times in my Journeys up and down the coast. Such a cool bridge.
Edit..... about that Bridge.... I was just reminiscing and was thinking about Ken Keseys book “Sometimes A Great Notion”. Just about my favorit book ever. I read it about the time I was Logging on one of the High Lead Shows in Hope BC. If my memory serves me well, some of Paul Newman’s movie was filmed there. That book, and movie, was my first introduction to Oregon. I made my first drive down the coast in the mid 70’s. With many many rides up and down over the years. But every time I ride over that bridge , I look for Henry Stampers one finger salute tied to a mast of tug pulling a bunch of logs ......
Yes that movie was filmed in and around Newport when I was growing up, quite a big deal in such a small town. Kesey absolutely nailed the hard working/playing/drinking culture of the Oregon Coast working class. Every year around the holidays we replay that movie in remembrance of my parents, my upbringing and friends lost.
I was in my early teens riding a Hodaka 100 on local logging roads and racing cross country and flat track as a member of the Mt. Baber Cycle Club. The flat track scenes in Sometimes a Great Notion were filmed at the track in Elk City a few miles inland where I got my first kiss from a trophy girl (dust in my teeth and all). They actually used a few club members as extras, and Paul Neuman attended one of the races which made my mom and all the other moms/wives all starry-eyed, while me and my friends were in awe of the dirt bike stuntmen who we thought were the coolest people in the world. The scene where Joby drowns takes place in a slough of Yaquina Bay we used to duck hunt.
Ride safe brother.
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09-16-2018, 02:35 PM
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