Published some 35 years after The City of Bellingham, the post World War II pamphlet Vacation While You Work presented the town  in very similar ways.  Building on Bellingham's natural advantages, the authors now portrayed the area's recreational possibilities as  incentives to investors due to  their supposed calming effect on labor. Vacation While you Work, Pamphlet Collection, Center for Pacific Northwest Studies.                 

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