Pay 'n Save drugstore, Wolff Building — 10/1960 — #37768_4
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Photograph Copyright Anderson & Middleton Company
United States — Washington (State) — Aberdeen
Aberdeen Weatherwax High School
Image includes Pay n' Save drugs, Karl's Shoes and Wolff's.
Thanks to Sam Talley, who adds this story: "On Halloween night kids would take candles and write 1960's graffiti stuff on store windows. Ambitious students would get hired to clean the windows the following day. It was a lot of hard work scraping the wax off. I would put soap, which looked like wax, on store windows....Then get hired to clean them. With a little water the soap cleaned up easily and the windows really looked great."
Additional thanks to Sam Talley, who writes: "In the mid-1950's I was allowed to buy my own new school clothes without my mother's help. I found I could buy new shoes at Karl's for $6.95 as opposed to $15.95 at an upper scale shoe store - 2 pair at Karl's for the price of one pair elsewhere. I bought a pair of blue suede shoes and a pair of English Brogues, both very fashionable for the day. During flooding in the west end of Aberdeen from rain storms the bluing from my suede shoes bled and ruined my pink socks. The shoe's cardboard lining turned to mush. The brogues didn't fare any better. There wasn't enough leather in those shoes to make a watch band. I learned a good shopping lesson.”
