Joseph R. Gandolfo Joseph Gandolfo owned a fruit, confectionery, tobacco, and stationary store at three different Yukon locations between 1898 and 1905.((Ronald J. Benice, //Alaska and Yukon Tokens: Private Coins of the Territories,// 3rd edition. McFarland, 2010: 318.)) Gandolfo did business in every placer or quartz mining camp in the country. He brought the first bananas, cucumbers, and ripe tomatoes to Dawson.((Ian Macdonald and Betty O'Keefe, //The Klondike's "Dear Little Nugget."// Victoria: Horsdal & Schubart. 1996: 37.))