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Small Oregon Coastal Town Celebrates 'Festivus' |
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11/18/07
Secrets of the Season |
Small Oregon Town Celebrates 'Festivus'
(Seaside,
Oregon) – It’s where the Oregon coast meets “Seinfeld.”
The town of Seaside will celebrate “Festivus” this year – their own coastal version of the goofy holiday depicted in an episode of “Seinfeld,” where the Costanza family honored a yearly tradition they proclaimed as “Festivus – a holiday for the rest of us!”
Seaside’s version doesn’t involve a bare metal pole, a wrestling match or the “airing of grievances” built up over the year. Instead, Seaside’s Festivus involves a week of extra shopping hours at retail shops, designed at giving locals who work during the day more time to do their Christmas shopping, and tourists to get to know another side to the famed north Oregon coast town.
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Created by the Seaside Downtown Development Association (SDDA), Festivus happens during the week of November 24 – December 1. Downtown merchants will remain open until 8 p.m.
“Our
hopes are to create an inviting atmosphere for you to enjoy and shop local,
thus keeping the dollar within the community in which you live,”
said SDDA executive director Laurie Oxley. “Join in the spirit of
the season, stroll the streets, and look for our many downtown festivities.”
There will be events throughout the town, but the Carousel Mall will host a variety of holiday entertainment during the week.
On November 24, the Faith Lutheran Church Children’s Hand Bell & Chime Choir will perform at 6 p.m.
On November 28, at 10 a.m., it’s the Faith Lutheran Church Pre-School Singers. They perform again at 10 a.m. on the following day, November 29. November 30 has the North Coast Christian School singing at 12:30 p.m.
You can drop off gifts for the needy at the Seaside Downtown
Development office,
inside the Carousel Mall. Another feature: Mrs. Claus will be out shopping
downtown from 5 – 8 p.m.
Festivus
is an annual holiday invented in 1966 by Reader’s Digest writer
and editor Dan
O’Keefe. It was later introduced to popular culture by O’Keefe’s
son, Daniel O’Keefe, a scriptwriter for the TV show Seinfeld. It
appeared in the episode “The Strike,” on December 18, 1997.
Like many Seinfeld lines and gags, the holiday actually has caught on and worked its way into the general culture. It is celebrated each year on December 23, but others celebrate it at other times, often to avoid the Christmas rush.
Many people, influenced or inspired by Seinfield, now celebrate the holiday, in varying degrees of seriousness: some carefully following rules from the TV show or books, others humorously inventing their own versions.
Participating
businesses include Above It All Kites, Artworks, Beach Books, By The Sea
gifts, Caffe Latte, Chez Scoop, Comfort Inn & Suites, Country Bungalow,
Dundee's Bar & Grill, Ernst & Ernst Collectors Gallery, Flashback
Malt Shoppe & Gifts, Fultano's Pizza, Gilbert District Gallery, Green
Leaf Thai, Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Seaside, Isabell Ross,
Knotty but Nice, Mary Anna's $12.99 Store, North Coast Leather, Ocean
Front Motel, Oregon Coast Portraits, Pizza Harbor, Pudgys Broiler, Seaside
Mostly Hats, Shearwater Clothing And…, Shearwater Gallery, Signature
Imports, Sunrose Gallery, T. Anjuli, Tenth Muse Bookstore, TerHar's, The
Aspirin Shop, The Buzz on Broadway, The Golden Horse Chinese Restaurant,
The Jewelry Box, The Natural Nook, The Old Crab & Beach House, The
Turn Around Market, Under The Big Top Toys and We're All Ears.
For more information, call the SDDA at 503-717-1914. www.seasidedowntown.com
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