Sunday, August 26, 2012

Astoria: A little history

The town of Astoria is a hard scrabble, blue collar town. It seems it had the largest population of Finnish people west side of the Mississippi that it is known as the Helsinki of the west. Astoria was the cannery capital. A place where before the modern advent of refrigeration for transporting fish canned salmon and other fish.

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