Northwest History. Alaska. General.
Alaska Gas Station Transacts Business On Old Sailing Boat. Alaska Gas Station Transacts Business on Old Sailing Boat Boasting one of the most unusual gasoline service stations in the world, transacting its business with watercraft, Ketchikan, fish capital of Alaska, is a veritable Venice of the nort...
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ftwashstatelib:oai:content.libraries.wsu.edu:clipping/91938 2023-05-15T17:02:19+02:00 Northwest History. Alaska. General. Spokane Press 1934-08-15 Alaska Gas Station Transacts Business On Old Sailing Boat. 1934-08-15 http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/91938 English eng nwh-sh-10-8-80 http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/91938 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0 Copyright not evaluated. Contact original newspaper publisher for copyright information. Northwest History. Alaska. Box 10 Alaska gas station business old sailing boat gasoline service watercraft Ketchikan Venice fish capital Lloyd Bayly Washington General Petroleum corporation Carl Waage Pacific waters Falls of Clyde fishing banks toilers of the sea Northwest Pacific -- History -- 20th century Text Clippings 1934 ftwashstatelib 2021-07-26T19:18:51Z Alaska Gas Station Transacts Business On Old Sailing Boat. Alaska Gas Station Transacts Business on Old Sailing Boat Boasting one of the most unusual gasoline service stations in the world, transacting its business with watercraft, Ketchikan, fish capital of Alaska, is a veritable Venice of the north, according to a story told to Lloyd Bayly, Washington division manager for General Petroleum corporation, by Carl Waage, Alaskan district manager. One of the last of the great fleet of sailing vessels that ploughed Pacific waters, the bark, Falls of Clyde, now serves as a floating service station for the more than 2000 gasoline trollers and several hundred larger vessels that set out each year for the fishing banks. During the height of the season watch is kept day and night on the converted bark to offer service to the trollers, nearly all of which yre piloted by a lone skipper, although there are some that vaunt crew of two. While Ketchikan, lays claim to "pward of 400 automobiles General's sales records indicate that the business enjoyed from that source does not begin to compare with the large volume received from the "toilers of-the sea." Text Ketchikan Alaska Washington State University: WSU Libraries Digital Collections Bayly ENVELOPE(-61.833,-61.833,-64.617,-64.617) Lone ENVELOPE(11.982,11.982,65.105,65.105) Pacific |
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Alaska Gas Station Transacts Business On Old Sailing Boat. Alaska Gas Station Transacts Business on Old Sailing Boat Boasting one of the most unusual gasoline service stations in the world, transacting its business with watercraft, Ketchikan, fish capital of Alaska, is a veritable Venice of the north, according to a story told to Lloyd Bayly, Washington division manager for General Petroleum corporation, by Carl Waage, Alaskan district manager. One of the last of the great fleet of sailing vessels that ploughed Pacific waters, the bark, Falls of Clyde, now serves as a floating service station for the more than 2000 gasoline trollers and several hundred larger vessels that set out each year for the fishing banks. During the height of the season watch is kept day and night on the converted bark to offer service to the trollers, nearly all of which yre piloted by a lone skipper, although there are some that vaunt crew of two. While Ketchikan, lays claim to "pward of 400 automobiles General's sales records indicate that the business enjoyed from that source does not begin to compare with the large volume received from the "toilers of-the sea." |
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