Episode 149: Dance by the Ocean

the memory palace

Nate DiMeo

Radiotopia, Publicradio, History, Natedimeo

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts.

A note on shownotes. In a perfect world, you go into each episode of the Memory Palace knowing nothing about what's coming. It's pretentious, sure, but that's the intention. So, if you don't want any spoilers or anything, you can click play without reading ahead.

Anyway...

Music

We start with The Dane by Nihls Frahm.
Move in and out of Reading a Wave by Arp
Which mixes briefly with Stephen Gosling and Blair Macmillan playing John Adams' Hallelujah Junction.
We also here Umitaro Abe play Reperages Pour Piano.
And Brambles play Such Owls as You.

Notes

There's a pretty comprehensive book on Bayocean by Bert and Margie Webber called Bayocean: the Oregon Town That Fell Into the Sea
There's also a terrific website that appears to be regularly updating that's filled with all sorts of stories and resources about Bayocean.

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the memory palace. I'm neat to meow.
0:04.2	It was all a sales pitch. The food, the wine, the whiskey, the first-class accommodations.
0:10.4	The yacht itself, the biggest on the Pacific coast, 150 feet, painted bright white like the spray off a wave in the light.
0:18.9	Unmistakable and unmissable to those unfortunate souls on shore,
0:23.4	watching and waving from the banks of the Willamette River, then onto the Columbia.
0:28.5	Who couldn't afford to be on that boat?
0:30.5	Chrison the Bay Ocean, setting out from Portland, Oregon to the Pacific.
0:35.1	Most weekends spring through fall during the early 19 teens.
0:39.8	And the fine people on that fine boat, see a man in a boulder hat in Waxmustache,
0:45.5	pinstripe suit, take the gloved hand, white silk, pearl beads,
0:50.5	a vellatee stepping off a gang plank to the deck of the yacht.
0:54.4	See them retiring to their well-appointed cabin.
0:57.8	We're taking in the air on the deck, leaning against the white rail.
1:02.4	As the green of Oregon, just so green, rolls by.
1:06.3	The air is so clean, when the breeze would strip out the smell of smoke as they steam down river toward the sea.
1:13.1	The fine people on that fine boat would hear now and again throughout the journey.
1:17.5	The spiel from the yacht's charming operator, a young man from Kansas City,
1:22.3	who along with his father had been developing the peninsula toward which they were traveling.
1:27.2	The picturesque spar of land bounded by Tillamuk Bay on one side and the ocean on the other.
1:32.5	That would one day, so with the spiel, be a grand resort destination.
1:37.3	The Atlantic City of the Pacific, they called it Bay Ocean,
1:41.2	just like the boat that bore them there.
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