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Long Beach, WA - History


We would like to provide the residents of  Long Beach  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Long Beach Home page. The Long Beach Home page provides as much information as possible on Long Beach. Knowing Long Beach’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Long Beach’s Home page, you will also find Long Beach’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Long Beach has a population of 1576. 47.5% of Long Beach’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.5 are female. 36.8% of Long Beach is married and 61.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $215,651, and the average rent is $762. Household median income in Long Beach is $43,036, and the individual median income is $21,589. Long Beach’s Ethnic is the following: White(95%), Hispanic(7.4%), Multiple(2.8%), Native(1.3%), Asian(0.9%), Other(0.1%).


Long Beach began when Henry Harrison Tinker bought a land claim from Charles E. Reed in 1880. He platted the town and called it "Tinkerville." Long Beach was officially incorporated on January 18, 1922. From 1889 to 1930, a narrow-gauge railroad called the Ilwaco Railway and Navigation Company ran up the whole peninsula. The Long Beach depot was built between First and Second Streets on the east side of the track, which ran north along "B" Street.


A major destination in Long Beach was Tinker's Hotel, later renamed the Long Beach Hotel, and built very close to the station. This was the second hotel built at the site by Henry Harrison Tinker, the founder of Long Beach. Tinker's first hotel burned down in 1894. He built another one just a few feet to the east and south of the rail depot.


The image in the gallery shows a crowd waiting for the train sometime between 1901 and 1907. Just across the tracks (which doubled in this area) from Tinker's Hotel in Long Beach was the Portland Hotel. The Portland Hotel, owned by the Hanniman family featured an enormous round (and unique) turret-like structure.


The Portland Hotel burned down on December 6, 1914, and was not replaced. The Driftwood Hotel was another common Long Beach destination. The boardwalk area near the station was known as "Rubberneck Row." Businesses existing in August 1911 that can be identified along Rubberneck Row from photographs (see images in this article) include, on the west side of the tracks, an establishment advertising "Baths" (possibly the Crystal Baths, an indoor swimming pool), Milton York Candies, a "Postal Shop," and a soda fountain just across from the station advertising "Milk Shake." A somewhat earlier photograph shows a sign for a livery stable immediately to the west across the tracks from Tinker's Hotel, followed (proceeding southwards) by a barber shop, "Vincent's Souvenirs," and "The Candy Man".


A banner stretching above the tracks advertises a restaurant. The photo published by Feagans shows it was produced by H.A. Vincent, Ilwaco and Long Beach, who was probably the owner of Vincent's Souvenirs. Then, in the late 1980s, Marsh's Free Museum was made, to show people the wonders of the Northwest.


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