(Download pdf) Hard Times in Paradise: Coos Bay, Oregon, Revised Edition
• William G. Robbins •
| #1771414 in Books | 2006-05-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.02 x.60 x5.98l,.82 | File Name: 0295985488 | 236 pages
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Gary William Clark|As promised!||"Relying heavily on interviews with residents of the Oregon coast, Robbins focuses on the social history of a community and the impact on it of outside forces. He examines workers, work and living conditions, technologies, unemployment, and ways of surviving
Blessed with vast expanses of virgin timber, a good harbor, and a San Francisco market for its lumber, the Coos Bay area once dubbed itself "a poor man's paradise." A new Prologue and Epilogue by the author bring this story of gyppo loggers, longshoremen, millwrights, and whistle punks into the twenty-first century, describing Coos Bay’s transition from timber town to a retirement and tourist community, where the site of a former Weyerhaeuser complex is now home t...
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Hard Times in Paradise: Coos Bay, Oregon, Revised Edition | William G. Robbins.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
