Title:
The Curb Lunch at 653 Mission Street, circa 1953
Photographer:
Paulu T. Saari
Description:
At 4:00 A.M. on November 23, 1953, local police and the FBI arrested 29 citizens in an after-hours, bootleg booze establishment operating in the back rooms of this eatery.
If the building remained today, it would be in the middle of the Stedman Street extension, beside the "tail" of Whale Park.
If the building remained today, it would be in the middle of the Stedman Street extension, beside the "tail" of Whale Park.
Collection:
Ketchikan Museums: Paulu T. Saari Collection, KM 2003.2.63.1940
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Curb Lunch, Mission Street, 1953
Curb Lunch, Mission Street, 1953