The day demolition after began at the old Bremerton ferry terminal with a sledgehammer wielded by the state’s ferries chief, a Sun front-page headline described the old brick building as being on its last leg. That leader, Adm. Harold Parker, said the 50-year-old facility had “served her purpose,” and Mayor Gene Lobe told a crowd of 30 onlookers that the demolition project in fall 1987 arrived “not a day too soon.” The project was one part of a city effort that year to revitalize the downtown area along the waterfront, at the time filled with many surface parking lots and decaying buildings.
Demolition efforts continued through October and December to clear the old terminal away from the city’s waterfront at the end of Pacific Avenue, and a new Washington State Ferries terminal held a ribbon-cutting on March 31, 1988.
A few photos of demolition efforts from that November are included in this edition of a Bremerton Sun photo gallery of images from our film archives, all from the year 1987. See what Silverdale looked like from the air, remember a visit to Sinclair Inlet by a historic replica ship, scenes from Olympic College and more.
11/03/87 Ferry Terminal Demolition
This article originally appeared on Kitsap Sun: Scenes from the Bremerton Sun’s photo archives in 1987