Whitney Oldsmobile Co. exterior with trucks — 7/12/1952 — #26726_1
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Photograph Copyright Anderson & Middleton Company
United States — Washington (State) — Aberdeen
Whitney Oldsmobile Co.
26726_1 from this assignment appears on page 94 of William D. Jones' "Motor Cars and Serv-us Stations" under the number 26726. The book caption reads : " Whitney Olds and General Tire Service in Aberdeen. Located at Market and Broadway. Photograph taken on November 6, 1951." This date is not the same as the one (7/12/1952) on the assignment envelope.
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."
