Joseph R. Gandolfo

Joseph Gandolfo owned a fruit, confectionery, tobacco, and stationary store at three different Yukon locations between 1898 and 1905.1) Gandolfo did business in every placer or quartz mining camp in the country. He brought the first bananas, cucumbers, and ripe tomatoes to Dawson.2)

1)
Ronald J. Benice, Alaska and Yukon Tokens: Private Coins of the Territories, 3rd edition. McFarland, 2010: 318.
2)
Ian Macdonald and Betty O'Keefe, The Klondike's “Dear Little Nugget.” Victoria: Horsdal & Schubart. 1996: 37.