Talk:Vallejo (ferry)

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Did you know... that the houseboat Vallejo, made an icon of Bay Area culture by artist Jean Varda and philosopher Alan Watts in the 1960s, originally served as a passenger ferry in Portland, Oregon in the 1870s?

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Sources for expansion[edit]

Dictionary of Oregon History apparently covers this boat
This PDF (now a malicious link) has a photo and some statistics (see bottom of p. 186); but it's unclear what the source is.

-Pete (talk) 17:41, 24 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Also, Mtsmallwood (talk · contribs) has graciously tracked down a listing of the boat's original registry number, 155011. Incorporating that number into database and Internet searches has proven helpful. -Pete (talk) 17:43, 24 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Name change reflected here: http://books.google.com/books?id=l0oYKz59qAMC&pg=PA185&lpg=PA185&dq=155011+vallejo+ferry&source=bl&ots=vd-ApdLkBD&sig=kEVEkYW-JCYVplIHlEX7dj0-eGs&hl=en&ei=cU1VTuWWOY3ViALAnM3uDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEAQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=155011%20vallejo%20ferry&f=false

Here's a great article about how the boat is being used today: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-houseboat-hosted-jack-kerouac-maya-angelou-artist-residency 216.75.229.114 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 19:12, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]