It’s Throwback Thursday, and time again to crack open the archives of the Bainbridge Review for a look at pages past. Today’s rewind takes a peek at the Wednesday, Jan. 5, 1966 edition.
Front Page
’66 Forecast A Busy Year
What’s in store on Bainbridge for 1966?
As the year gets underway, it looks like a safe prediction that this is going to be one of the busiest years on record here.
There will be new homes — lots of them, according to Island contractors — and new Island residents to live in them.
A new marina in Eagle Harbor appears to be a strong prospect. At least one big new commercial building (“Don’t say anything about it yet. It’s still in the talking stage.”) is under serious consideration.
Islanders can look forward to a record volume of conversation about bridges and ferries during 1966. And in November, they’ll suddenly find themselves with a bigger political voice than ever before as a major factor in the newly-formed Tenth Legislative District.
240-Boat Marina Due This Year
Developer Ed Stafford said this week that a big new 240-boat marina at Winslow can go into operation this summer if plans stay on schedule.
Stafford got a green light Monday from the Winslow town council, after an owner of adjoining property said the marina plan apparently didn’t comply with the town’s zoning ordinance.
Town Attorney John Gose said that as nearly as he could determine, the tidelands on which the marina is planned aren’t zoned at all.
TV Show to Feature Island Ferry
Television star Robert Preston will appear as a Bainbridge ferry commuter next month in a network TV program.
With him, unless the film editors get too energetic with their scissors, will be many of the regular passengers aboard the 5:05 ferry from Seattle to Winslow.
The Island ferry run will pick up its national publicity Feb. 20 as part of a series of programs entitled “Our Proud Land.”
The hour-long program in February will feature the Pacific Coast. It will be shown from 8 to 9 p.m. on Seattle’s Channel 4.
Action for the television appearance was filmed aboard the ferry Tillikum. The ship’s veteran captain, Gust Westerlund, was filmed in an interview with Robert Preston by the network TV crews.
Working with the television group was Bill Morrice, traffic manager for the state ferry system.
Morrice said the TV episode was designed to show the relaxed and friendly atmosphere that exists in the Puget Sound area — “and where in the U.S. does a commuter have a more relaxed attitude than on a Seattle-Winslow ferry?”
The TV crew used a certain amount of poetic license in the setting up the episode aboard the Tillikum, Morrice said.
One shot, which had to be repeated three times before the cameramen were satisfied, shows Preston as a late commuter making a leap aboard the car ramp as the Tillikum begins to pull away from the Colman ferry dock.
Opinion
Go-Go Gone
SEATTLE HAS MANAGED to put tops on its Go-Go Girls, thus restoring virtue to its former haunts, before we ever found the time or the inclination to make a first-hand inspection of this phenomenon.
To tell the truth, we’re sorry to have missed a chance to watch vice making its temporary appearance in the city on the Sound. We would have enjoyed taking notes.
The girls themselves had nothing to display that hadn’t previously put in an appearance elsewhere. Back in the wicked days of the past, almost no town was too small to support a brief annual visit from a gaudy carnival that included a sinful girl show to attract the yokels.
What was different about the Go-Go Girls was their audience.
From all accounts, the establishments that displayed them were places that put on a businessmen’s lunch for the downtown white-collar trade. Instead of an audience of hayseeds, the Seattle dancing girls were entertaining the Babbits of the business district.
And in painful honestly, there is something a little wistful about a well-barbered executive munching his blue-plate special in the presence of a young lady who is somewhat carelessly dressed.
As sin goes, it was pretty pathetic sin.
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