Birch Bay’s Station 49 still in same family, seven decades later

Corporate events, too. On Birch Bay Lynden Road, about two miles northeast of the heart of Birch Bay and less than a mile from the water sits a shed full of go-karts. Not just the one suspended on a lift that Dale and Brayden Giffen are working on — go-karts are stuffed into sturdy shelves and a bare frame model sits atop an interior wall. That tubular metal go-kart, Dale mentions, is from the 1962 World’s Fair in Seattle, broadly known as the Century 21 Exposition. The ongoing mainten