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There's a lot of

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history here at the Pacific
 Fishermen Shipyard.

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It's not just the vessels
 and the boats that they work on,

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there are also the signs.

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A lot of history,

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some of this stuff goes back
 really, really far.

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We we keep the dream alive here,
 so so is a special place for you.

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So Ballard is a special place for you,

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These signs that it means so much.

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They do. They mean a lot.

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Tyler Adams is the shipyard safety
 and environmental compliance manager

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A Ballard native,

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He says the signs are a big part
 of Ballard's history.

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So all of the signs here at Pacific
 Fishermen Shipyard are beloved

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local businesses that, for one reason
 or another, have gone out of business

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and we were able to obtain their signs
 and put them up here

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so that the community can remember
 what Ballard kind of used to be.

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A lot of small businesses owned
 by families, paying wages, stuff like that.

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And unfortunately,
 it seems a bit of a graveyard

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for those type of businesses,

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but at least somebody is out here
 reminding people of how it used to be.

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First, it

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started with us noticing people
 going out of business, and we were trying

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to get their sign, contact him,
 ask if we could have it.

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And then it started with people calling us
 and saying

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that they're getting rid of their sign
 or they're they're going out of business.

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Do we want the sign?

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Do I have a favorite sign?

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(sigh)

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Probably the Viking Tavern.

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Not the coolest sign here,
 but if you're talking an old Ballard bar

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that everybody used to go and drink
 at, it's the Viking.

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And we all miss it terribly.

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I've been to almost all of them.

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Captain's Nautical Supply.
 I used to live on a sailboat.

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I went in and out of there every week.

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The University meat and poultry type place

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great smoked stuff.

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Been to Crown Hill Hardware

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A bunch of times.

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Ballard Inflatable Boats
 fixed my inflatable boats.

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You've got Zestos, everybody knows

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Zestos from across the street
 at Ballard High School

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Trident... all these great places
 that are not around anymore.

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But yeah, we used to go to  almost all of them.

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Isn't that cool? It's a pretty cool thing.

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So that was a Russian device
 that they used to lay right

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above the cables that were communication
 cables across the Pacific Ocean,

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and they would listen to communications
 through the cable with that device.

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And one of the fishermen
 who's a shareholder here at Pac Fish,

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was dragging some nets
 along the bottom.

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And that thing came up in it.

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So he turned it over
 to the Department of Defense.

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They took all this secret stuff out of it
 and gave it back to him, and

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he gave it to us.

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And as of right now, yes,

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those googly eyes are the largest
 googly eyes in the world.