Broadway and Market Streets — 10/18/1939 — #16760_1
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Photograph Copyright Anderson & Middleton Company
United States — Washington (State) — Aberdeen
AETNA Insurance Co.
Anderson & Middleton mill at foot of Broadway, Aberdeen. Image includes Grays Harbor Savings & Loan, Caldwell Bearing & Parts Co., [Smerfy's?], Elmore Brown shoes, and Liberty Drug Co. Liberty Drug was on the corner of Wishkah and 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 (Anderson & Middleton at the time of the photo) 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. The two parallel "stripes" down the center of the street are the fill where the trolley track once were."
