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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
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.
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
A fact from Vallejo (ferry) appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 31 August 2011, and was viewed approximately 3,500 times (
disclaimer) (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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?
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Oregon, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the
U.S. state of
Oregon on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
the discussion and see a list of open tasks.OregonWikipedia:WikiProject OregonTemplate:WikiProject OregonOregon articles
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U.S. state of California on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
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Sources for expansion
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.
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