The People, Places & Happenings of Poulsbo, Washington
From the newspapers of Poulsbo and Kitsap County
We went looking for the first week of August, and found the town waiting for us in three different decades. What follows is set down exactly as it was printed, spelling and all.
Free bus service on Route A and B. For schedule see ad week of June 15th. Route 1, Box 292 Poulsbo. Phone Poulsbo. PRospect 9-4589, evenings.
Berry farms advertised in the classifieds for pickers every August, and the ones out of walking distance ran a bus to bring them to the fields. For a good many young people around here, a summer in the raspberry rows was the first paying work they ever did.
POULSBO, Aug. 6. The “big push” in Poulsbo's quest for a recreation center will start rolling over the Labor day holiday when the community will gather for a gala three-day celebration, proceeds to go toward financing the project. High points will be a carnival, water sports and street dancing. On display will be an inboard motorboat and an Austin car.
Fishing in the Arctic has been especially profitable this year, according to reports from the C. A. Thayer, codfish schooner from Poulsbo, now in the Bering sea. Some 200,000 fish are already in the hold of the vessel and if the catch holds up for the remainder of the season, the Thayer will return with a full load when it starts home in a month or six weeks.
Ike Sageser and Harry Salmonson of the Poulsbo postoffice crew brought home a 10-pound and a 20-pound salmon Monday of last week.
Vinland Community club has postponed its August meeting until Aug. 12 at the community hall.
The C. A. Thayer sailed for Poulsbo's Pacific Coast Codfish Company from 1925 until 1950, when she made the last commercial voyage under sail on the West Coast. Built in 1895, she is still afloat at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, and one of her dories, restored, sits in Poulsbo City Hall, where you can go put a hand on it.
Poulsbo's plans to enlarge its harbor and expand its dock facilities without an expensive dredging operation got a boost this week from Bert Cole, state land commissioner. It may be possible to extend the Poulsbo port 1,000 feet into Liberty bay over tidelands owned by the state, Cole said.
This would allow construction of additional docks in water deep enough to allow passage of ships without dredging. Previously, the port commissioners were considering dredging a channel in land owned by the port. Commissioners explained that the port's dock facilities are too small for present demand.
The Port of Poulsbo was nine years old when this ran, having been established in March of 1951. The argument in it, that the docks are too small for the demand, has been made about this waterfront more or less continuously ever since.
If your family kept clippings, letters, photographs, or anything else out of Poulsbo's past, we would be honored to see them. Old paper is exactly the sort of thing that sits in a box for fifty years and then turns out to be the only surviving record of something.