Scenes of the luxurious art deco ferry MV Kalakala near Seattle, circa 1935. Originally launched as the Peralta in 1926 at San Francisco, the vessel burned to the waterline on May 6, 1933. The intact hull was purchased and towed to the Lake Washington Shipyards in Houghton, Washington, for its art deco redesign and rename. The Kalakala served millions of passengers in the Puget Sound area from 1935 until retirement in 1967. The beached ferry then served as a shrimp cannery in Kodiak, Alaska, for a time before being scrapped in 2015 (B&W/Silent/16mm film).
This sequence is an excerpt of AAF-243 from the Bob & Marion Hall Collection held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
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