Yellow Pages
July 29, 1909
Curtis’ ocean dock is receiving not only a general overhauling but a practical reconstruction. A piledriver is at work driving 70 new chemically treated piles, which will make the structure much stronger than ever before. An attractive new office building and waiting room depot has just been completed, all but the painting, and the office was removed to the new structure yesterday afternoon. The building is plentifully studded with windows and is a handsome structure, 20x40 feet in size.
July 31, 1919
Because it has become a habit with certain auto drivers of the city to use the paved streets as race tracks on which to loosen up their engines, Police Judge Fred C. Werner has given orders which will result in many arrests and probably some sentences of confinement unless the drivers see the error of their ways. Last week three speeders were brought before the judge and received the nominal fee of $10 and costs, amounting to $4.70. This is the fine imposed for the first offense, but the judge promises no leniency on those who persist in “letting her out” on the city’s thoroughfares, and intends to give drivers a real lesson if they are compelled to appear before him a second time.
July 25, 1929
Anacortes manufactured pulp will enjoy a trip to Genoa, Italy, this week. Seventy tons of pulp was shipped from the local plant of the Fidalgo Pulp Manufacturing company to Seattle last week, where it was placed on the steamer Rialto, bound for Genoa, Italy. A shipment to Japan was also made from the local plant, there being 350 tons of pulp shipped by scow from here to Bellingham, where it was loaded on a Japan steamer.
July 27, 1939
Greatest advance in the queen contest of the Pageant during the last few days was shown by Mamie Olson, who took definite hold on third place with 12,000 votes when ballots were tabulated today. Other standouts are: Alice Johnson, 28,000; Luella Decker, 26,000; Peggy Denny, 8,000; Hazel Ent, 8,000 and LaVerne Baer, 4,000.
July 28, 1949
Funds totaling $410,000 will be available in 1950 for construction of an airport here according to word released in this area this week by the Civil Aeronautics Administration in Washington, D.C.
July 31, 1959
An-O-Chords, the Anacortes barbershop chorus, chalked up another successful event Sunday with the 14th annual salmon barbecue, held for the first time this year within the Anacortes city limits. The traditional luncheon and afternoon of harmony was staged at Washington Park and drew crowds estimated at more than 1,500.
July 18, 1979
The Anacortes Railway, the brainchild of Anacortes steam enthusiast Tommy Thompson, will have its inaugural run August 4 and 5 during the 18th annual Anacortes Arts and Crafts Festival. The train, a narrow-gauge coal-fired steam engine and passenger car reminiscent of an era of luxury rail transportation, will travel from 4th Street to the port dock down Commercial Avenue the two days of festival operation. The train will run on 18-inch gauge track that will be laid temporarily down the middle of Commercial Avenue.
— From the archives of the Anacortes American
