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A downtown candy counter of taffy, rocky road, and boxed chocolate
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Seaside’s oldest continually run business

Phillips Candies has been on Broadway since 1897. The name stayed. The taffy stayed. The family in the kitchen changed.

Cove Tales · Jun 18, 2026 · 1 min

Pans of gelato and a downtown counter a block off the Prom
Owner profileSeaside

The base

Douglass and Tanya Lintow bought Sea Star Gelato on a birthday trip. The secret, he will tell you, is not a flavor. It is the base.

Cove Tales · Apr 21, 2026 · 3 min

A working coastal dining room set for seafood
Owner profileSeaside

Behind the grill

Doug Wiese grew up on a Gearhart grill. His son Carnegie came home from New Zealand to take the chowder. Dooger’s is still on Columbia Street.

Cove Tales · Feb 18, 2026 · 3 min

Wooden shelves of books in a downtown Seaside shop
Owner profileSeaside

Where she should have been all her life

Karen Emmerling opened Beach Books in 2005. Twenty years on, the Gilbert District still has a literary living room.

Cove Tales · Jan 24, 2026 · 3 min

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