Dismantling a service station at Wishkah & Broadway, Aberdeen — 8/1/1959 — #34768_1
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Photograph Copyright Anderson & Middleton Company
United States — Washington (State) — Aberdeen
Aberdeen Daily World
Image includes S. H. Kress, Grays Harbor Savings & Loan, Wellington's Bakery, and New Aberdeen Garage. 34768_1 from this assignment appears on page 111 of William D. Jones' "Motor Cars and Serv-us Stations" under the number 34768. The book caption reads : "Standard Stations Inc. located at Wishkah and Broadway in Aberdeen, August 1, 1959. A new modern station was built around the old station so the operator wouldn't have to shut down service. Once the new station was built, the old metal and porcelain station was hauled to the scrap yard."
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."
