I probably fueled the Electra you rode on, Reeve @ Cold Bay was my first job out of high school in 1969 when Bob Reeve (known to employees simply as RCR) bought his first Electra.  It was a former Western aircraft he paid around 250,000 thousand cash if memory serves.  In 1969 Cold bay was not only a regional hub but heavily utilized by Flying Tigers as a refueling stop that was easier than Anchorage.  We moved an average of a million gallons of jet fuel each month plus avgas and diesel.  Airlift International used it to some degree as well and then as now, the occasional pax (passenger) flight. As today, in 1969 we were not at all set up to deal with full up airliners full of international passengers although Reeve did have an extensive "hotel" for the employees.