Aerial view of Fisherman's Terminal, December 26, 1967

Aerial view of Fisherman's Terminal, December 26, 1967

Graphic Photo Company

Seattle Chamber of Commerce

12/26/67

Transcribed from December 26, 1967 Seattle Times article on back of photograph: "The Princess Elaine as she appeared in C.P.R. Service. Last of C.P.R.'s 3-Stackers to become Seattle Restaurant. By Jay Wells, Maritime Editor, The Times. Selma Rodgers went to work as a waitress when she was 15. In the 63 years since then, she has owned 31 restaurants -- "and every one of them has been a success." So today she is bringing the Princess Elaine, last of the Canadian Pacific's three-stackers, to Seattle to make it into another restaurant on the West Seattle waterfront. Weather permitting, the Princess Elaine was scheduled to be towed out of Blaine today by a Foss Launch & Tug Co. tug. If the move begins today, the Princess Elaine should be in Seattle tomorrow morning. The Princess Elaine will be moored a short distance north of the Beach Broiler on Harbor Avenue Southwest, another restaurant owned by Mrs. Rodgers. The Princess Elaine and the Beach Broiler will be competitors. They will be leased to different operators. Mrs. Rodgers' ownership is the only thing they will have in common. Competition is one of the things that I love, the 78-year-old restaurateur explained as she sipped a cup of tea at the window table in the Beach Broiler. "I have wished all the six years I have been here that some good operator would come in her and give us some competition. Providing her own competition doesn't come cheap. It isn't done on a shoestring. The Princess Elaine, which was built in Glasgow in 1927, was taken off the Canadian Pacific's Vancouver-Nanaimo run in 1961. A group of businessmen turned it into a restaurant in Blaine but the venture didn't pan out. So on November 11, Mrs. Rodgers bought the 300 foot vessel. She explains that her new acquisition is really a ship, but most of the time she calls it a boat. "The boat is a quarter-of-a-million boat,"" she said. "It's going to be something Seattle can be proud of, just as Seattle is proud of the Space Needle. The Princess Elaine will be a theater restaurant with dancing. Three decks will have dining rooms and banquet facilities. On the main deck will be the finest specialty shops. They will have antiques of all types, imported sport goods and knit goods and novelties." As at the Beach Broiler, diners on the Princess Elaine will be able to look across Elliott Bay at downtown Seattle. Within two months after the Princess Elaine is berthed, the new restaurant will be open, Mrs. Rodgers said today."

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