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Lack of Success Finding Alternate Home Forces Sale of Historic Seattle Ferry.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, January, 2003
By Sarah Anne Wright, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jan. 22--Failing to find money or moorage, the Kalakala Foundation is taking steps to sell the dilapidated art-deco ferry.
Friday, the foundation's Web site advertised it was soliciting letters of intent and requests for proposal, due Jan. 31. But the deadline, board members said, is more of an internal one than an absolute.
Kalakala Foundation Executive Director Art Skolnik "is still working feverishly," said David Ruble, former vice president of the Kalakala Foundation.
"I am enthusiastic. I am not giving up," Skolnik said. "Sometimes I think I'm trying to market the plague."
The Kalakala, built during the Depression, had its maiden voyage...
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