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  Glendale is a village sited in a small valley four miles from I-5 that is  a lumber town with two working mills belonging to the Swanson Group. The commercial center is  old and looks to have seen better days.
  I rode into town on a fine late summer day after the smoke had cleared from several forest fires that had been burning for several weeks near by, one fire threatened homes in the area. The firefighters had moved their base camp out of town to a location some miles to the north where the forest was still burning and on this Saturday morning few people were in town.
  Pickers is a tiny place with a lunch counter, one table and shelves and coolers with food, soft drinks, beer and wine.  The cafe serves mostly  fried chicken (precooked--to go), burgers and pizzas. The mushroom-swiss cheese burger has a freshly made beef patty that was good; no pre-formed or frozen hamburger patties.
  
  For visitors, Glendale's importance is as one end of an approximately 74-mile long often very narrow forest road system for bicyclists and other travelers to the village of Powers near the Oregon coast. The route is paved and when I last rode it I saw only one vehicle (a backhoe) between Glendale and the Agnes/Gold Beach junction.

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  Posted on 09.07.13 R M.

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