Around 11/18/2004 5:39 PM, Gould 0738 wrote:

Our regional boating magazine is about to observe its 40th year of publication,
so I'm digging through issues from each of the first few decades to choose
material for an article to lauch the anniversay year.

Here's a couple of chucklers:

From a display ad in the November 1965 issue:

Robinson Marina (now long gone from 19th and Norton in Everett WA) was the
authorized dealer for Owens boats.

Hmm. That explains all the old Owens around us at the Port of Everett...

snip

Marine sanitation was a bit more primitive in the mid-60's, judging from this
partial description of,,,,,"Luxury Boat offered by Fairliner" Among the
intriguing new boats to be unveiled at the boat show is an entirely new
Fairliner which incorporates possibly more new and watned features than any
other productin boat offered today. ......Other features include: hot and cold
pressure water, a full-sized marine shower,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Isn't that an oxymoron?


electric push button toilet that
also serves as a garbage dispoal unit" (!) .........{sounds like grind it
and dump it, to me}

Better than what ours was, which skipped the "grind" step.

What fun! I'm looking at the "conceptual drawings" for two of our prominent
civic marinas, (Des Moines and Kingston) as the original construction on these
two projects was about to begin. I'll bet if the current environmental laws
were in place, facilities like that would *still* be in the discussion stages
after 40 years.

No kidding! Can you imagine the hassle in trying to get permits for
building something like the Everett Jetty or the Chittenden locks in
modern days? Yikes!


--
~/Garth - 1966 Glastron V-142 Skiflite: "Blue-Boat"
"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing about in boats."
-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows