Street scene with Kaufman-Scroggs — 5/15/1973 — #60489_1
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Photograph Copyright Anderson & Middleton Company
United States — Washington (State) — Aberdeen
Aberdeen, City of
Image includes Wolff's.
Thanks to Terri Middleton who adds: "Taken near the foot of Broadway between State and Heron Sts. this image also includes Walt Failor's Sporting Goods across Heron St. from Kaufman-Scroggs, the Aberdeen Elks and across Broadway from Failor's, JC Penney. Once known as Kaufman & Leonard, now Kaufman-Scroggs, the business is a century-old Harbor business that has been in its current location (in this building) almost that long. The home furnishings store was begun by JJ Kaufman in 1903 right before the great fire that destroyed most of Aberdeen. Photos of that fire's aftermath are on this website. He was joined by Richard M. Scroggs in the late 1920s and the business is still headed by the Scroggs family today." (2009).
More thanks to Terri Middleton, who adds: "Broadway, one of Aberdeen's widest streets, was built specifically to ferry workers to the Weatherwax lumber mill at the foot of the street on the Chehalis River and back home again. Market Street, Aberdeen's other wide street, was built for the same reason but for American Mill further up the river. Both mills were in operation in the late 1880's when most of the area was still covered in timber and Aberdeen's population was fewer than 1500."
