Broadway & Heron St. , looking north to Wishkah St. — circa 1939 — #16364_1
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Photograph Copyright Anderson & Middleton Company
United States — Washington (State) — Aberdeen
Image includes Rosalee's Children's Wear, Reid's Millinery, a business school, Brown Elmore Shoes, the Hobby Lobby, S. H. Kress & Co. and J. C. Penney. Thanks to Ron Smith, Susan Larson, Bruce Wicklund, and Dann Sears for contributing information. Polk's City Directory of Hoquiam 1951 lists these street addresses : Reed's 100 E. Heron ; Rosalee's 218 S. Broadway ; The Hobby Lobby 108 S. Broadway.
Thanks to Terri Middleton, who notes: "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."
