Street scene, Broadway and Heron vicinity — 6/1935 — #2023_1
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Photograph Copyright Anderson & Middleton Company
United States — Washington (State) — Aberdeen
Image includes Kaufman-Scroggs Furniture, Washington Gas & Electric, Brown Elmore Shoes, Broadway Pharmacy, and Kress.
Thanks to Terri Middleton, who adds: "Once known as Kaufman & Leonard, now Kaufman-Scroggs, the business is located at the intersection of Heron & Broadway Streets. Kaufman-Scroggs 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)
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."
