Longtime Wallingfordians will remember that back in 2002-03 the Art Deco ferry Kalakala was moored on Lake Union beside the Burke Gilman trail. Seattleites with even longer memories will recall the decades the streamlined vessel thrilled riders on Puget Sound. Today news organizations have reported that the old gal is taking on water and may not be salvageable.
Photo courtesy Steve Chapman; taken on January 1, 2002
The Kalakala’s current owner, Steve Rodrigues, yesterday posted a notice on the ferry’s website that he needs eight investors to keep the boat afloat.
Here’s video that KING-5 shot this morning:
This photo, taken in the late 1980s, is from deep in our personal archives:
The Kalakala in Kodiak, Alaska, after the vessel had been used as a fish cannery.
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she is not sinking but floating on her own. She is being re-painted and the wheel house and double horseshoe cafe will be complete this winter.