Broad and South Water
Streets
Byron E. Pease
1890s to 1960s
Byron E. Pease ran a horse-and-buggy
business from his livery stable on the corner of Broad and South Water Streets
(now the Sunken Ship) beginning in the 1890s. When cars were admitted to the
island in 1918, Kenneth Pease took over the business and acquired a bus license
and began to conduct island tours. Kenneth would call out for people to “take
a ride to ’Sconset.” A big box for suitcases was mounted on the
back of his White bus, which featured a prominent radiator with two large
cylinders jutting out, in which an air hose was inserted to pressurize the
strange-looking shock absorbers.
Francis Pease remembers: “It was a three-ring circus in those days for the tours. There was such keen competition to get passengers coming off the boats that the operators all went to it with hammer and tongs. They did everything but swing at each other.”
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