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Persoonlijke gegevens Pieter "Peter - Pete" van Zanten 

• Roepnaam is Peter - Pete.
• Hij is geboren op 30 mei 1901 in Bussum.Bron 1
• Beroepen:
• concierge.Bron 2
• musicus.Bron 3
• schilder.Bron 2
• taxichauffeur.Bron 2
• Woonachtig:
• James Avenue 3116, Minneapolis - Minnesota, USA.Bron 3

  in 1910

• Minnehaha Avenue 3504, Minneapolis - Minnesota, USA.Bron 3

  in 1917

• Russell Avenue 824, Minneapolis - Minnesota, USA.Bron 3

  in 1914

• tot voor 1909: Bussum.
• tot 1909: Winnipeg, Canada.Bron 3
• vanaf 1909: Minneapolis - Minnesota, USA.Bron 3
• vanaf 1945: Skagway (Alaska), USA.Bron 4
• van 1973 tot 20 februari 1987: Bandera - Texas, USA.Bron 3
• Hij is overleden op 20 februari 1987 in Bandera-Texas (USA), hij was toen 85 jaar oud.Bron 1
• Een kind van Pieter van Zanten en Dina Schouten
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 17 juli 2021.

Gezin van Pieter "Peter - Pete" van Zanten

Hij is getrouwd met Hilda Victoria Fogelberg.

Zij zijn getrouwdBron 3

Kind(eren):

1. (Niet openbaar)
2. (Niet openbaar)
3. Gerald van Zanten  1941-2011
4. (Niet openbaar)

Notities over Pieter "Peter - Pete" van Zanten

On geni.com his grandson Eric Vanzanten shares a lifestory about his grandfather Pieter (Peter) van Zanten:
OK, this seems cheesy as a starting point, but I'd say it's a pretty round presentation of who my grandfather ended up being near the end of his life. It's an article that was published in the May 1976 issue of Motorhome Life & Camper Coachman. For those who are curious, there is a scan of a photocopy of the article as it appeared in print in the "Photos of Me" section below. Enjoy! (Eric vZ)
Meet Pete van Zanten: This camperist commutes annually between homes in Skagway, Alaska and Bandera, Texas (by Leon Siler)
Practically everybody, whether in Bandera, TX, or in Skagway , AK, just calls him Pete. He is a genial, bewhiskered 74-year-old Hollander, and the rest of his name is van Zanten.
He commutes from Bandera to Skagway and back every year on a seasonal schedule—southward when the Alaskan winter descends on Skagway, northward when spring begins to that the Alaskan snows. How far is that — Bandera to Skagway or the reverse? Close to 3000 miles as the crow flies. But Pete doesn't emulate the crow. He zigzags. “One trip I zigzagged 2000 miles,” Pete recalled, smiling. He has sons, sisters and brothers scattered widely over the western reaches of the country, and he likes to visit them. Last spring he headed first from Bandera to Rimrock, AZ, to visit two sisters, then to Dumas, in the Texas panhandle, to visit another son and then to Minneapolis to visit a brother.
From Minneapolis, Pete intended to roll along in his pickup camper to Calgary, Alberta, and over the Canadian highways to Prince Rupert, BC. There he and his truck would board one of the west coast's Inside Passage ferries for the final leg to Skagway — the rough-hewn frontier town from which many a prospector trudged off across Chilkoot Pass to the Klondike gold fields in days gone by.
Why Skagway? “I like the place,” Pete said. “Went there in 1945 and got a job with the town as a sort of maintenance man. Then I worked for the White Pass railroad, which runs from Skagway to Whitehorse, the capital of the Yukon Territory. “Finally I took a job as a maintenance man for the Skagway public schools. I retired from the school job three years ago and since then have driven a taxicab for one of the Skagway hotels — the Sour Dough Inn. “I make pretty good money with the taxicab and have fun,” Pete elaborated. “I stayed the year around in Skagway for quite a while, but now I find the winters a little tough for me. I started wintering in Texas three years ago.”
And why Bandera, down in the Texas “hill country”? Because of a newspaper advertisement, Pete recalled. The advertisement offered lots for sale in Bandera at $100 or so each, and Pete bought two of them sight unseen. That was in 1950. In 1971 he struck out for Texas to see what he had acquired two decades earlier.
“The lots — out in the woods, not another soul around me — looked all right, so I bought a mobile home and put it on them. I’m hooked up to all the utilities and am reasonably close to the stores.” His winter days in Bandera are not idle ones. He’s to be found on a winter day clerking in the Bar Seven liquor store.
Pete has been a musician, along with his other callings — playing with the Minneapolis Symphony, various theater organizations and such concert performers as Dan Rubinoff of the “laughing violin.” In Skagway he has a three piece band. “We play old standards for tourists, and they eat it up,” Pete said.
In 1925 he accompanied his parents on a trip back to Holland. “We traveled to England and back on the Leviathan,” Pete recalled — the old Leviathan, long gone to the scrap heap! “England, incidentally, is a beautiful country,” Pete added. “And so is Holland; I had read about the Dutch being so clean, and sure enough, the first thing I noticed in Holland was the care with which people scrubbed their stoops.”
Pete had seen born in Bussum, Holland, five years before his parents brought him to Winnipeg, Manitoba. They went to Minneapolis in 1908, where Pete’s father was an interior decorator. One of his sons is vice-president on the Chamber of Commerce in Dumas, TX; another is an Episcopalian priest in Carthage, MO. A third son teaches music in an Anchorage, AK high school. Pete’s wife died three years ago.
How many more trips for him between Skagway and Bandera? “I'll keep traveling,” said Pete, “as long as I am physically and financially able. Then I’ll make a final trip to Bandera and settle down.”
(bronnen: Pieter van Zanten - geni.com)

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