A client mentioned a reference to Westport in a Raymond Chandler 1930s novel... here is what I turned up so far. Novelist and screenwriter Raymond Chandler on Westport, Washington, circa 1936: An hour’s fast driving [from Olympia, Washington] through thinned-out timber…brought me within sound of surf. The broad white road, striped with yellow down the center, swept around the flank of a hill, a distant cluster of buildings loomed up in front of the shine of the ocean, and the road forked. The left fork was posted: “Westport – 9 miles”, and didn’t go towards the buildings. It crossed a rusty cantilever bridge and plunged into a region of wind-distorted apple orchards. Twenty minutes more and I chugged into Westport, a sandy spit of land with scattered frame houses dotted over rising ground behind it. The end of the spit was a long narrow pier and the end of the pier a cluster of sailing boats with half-lowered sails flapping against their single masts. And beyond them a buoyed channel and a long irregular line where the water creamed on a hidden sandbar. Beyond the sandbar the Pacific rolled over to Japan. This was the last outpost of the coast, the farthest west a man could go and still be on the mainland of the United States...[8]
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 19:41:11 +0000
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