ELKAY Advertising Sign, Brooklyn, NY – 1958 A vintage advertising sign for Bill Larson's party fishing boat "ELKAY" sailing from the Tamaqua fishing station at Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn, NY circa 1958. The 40-foot wood "ELKAY" was built in 1940 at Deltaville, VA and was one of several smaller party boats that sailed from Gerritsen Beach during the 1940s through the 1960s. The sign is courtesy of Tom Whitford.