Boys’ shipwreck adventure couldn’t happen today

Published: Nov. 6, 2020, 2 p.m.

They pedaled their bicycles from Portland to Astoria, snuck aboard a wrecked ocean liner, and spent the night marooned on board, with breakers crashing all around them. (Peacock Spit, Clatsop County; 1930) (For text and pictures, see http://offbeatoregon.com/1812d.admiral-benson-shipwreck-summer-vacation.html)