"The surprising death of the 94-year-old artist, writer, and showman whom many thought might well live forever brought the expected tears, but mostly it inspired smiles and laughter among friends recalling memories of the man once known as the Mayor of Nye Beach. "To me, Ed was the bridge between the old Newport and the Newport that I moved into in around 2000," said Gary Lahman, a retired medical technologist."
"The Sylvia Beach Hotel was formerly the Hotel Gilmore, the "flophouse" Cameron once called home that inspired his graphic novel. While others expressed outrage that the Sylvia Beach Hotel would now be the more refined Hotel Sylvia, Cameron, having experienced the transition from the Hotel Gilmore, took a more reasoned view. "The improvements being made now are again saving the building," he said. "It's quite simply acknowledging progress.""
Ed Cameron died at age 94 on Jan. 5 at Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital after a brief illness. Cameron was an artist, writer and showman long associated with Nye Beach and often called the Mayor of Nye Beach. He organized Bloomsday celebrations, created the graphic novel Gilmore by the Sea, and held his first solo art show at the Yaquina River Museum of Art in 2024. Cameron lived in the former Hotel Gilmore and viewed renovations of the Sylvia Beach Hotel as progress that saved the building. He previously graduated from Portland State University, married, had children, divorced, taught high school and worked in Los Angeles.
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