Name/Title

Photograph

Entry/Object ID

2019.042.050

Description

Photo of two women inside a shop. They are wearing dresses with an overcoat of material with ads from a newspaper or old catalog. Various items are on display or on the walls, including cards and Pennsylvania Dutch Of Fashioned Licorice in a barrel and in packages. The store is at the end of Main Street on the Front Street, Penn Cove side. On the back: July 30, 1972, Mickey Becker, Holace Perry "Old Town Shop", Coupeville, WN. (A blue 4 is in a circle.) (Is the name Holace or Hollis?) PNRO, page 163: built in 1890 for F. Puget Race Drug Store. Lower part a shoe store. Drug store later rented as an apartment. In the 1960s it became the Old Town Shop. At some point it became Aqua (continues in 2019). Apparently there is a rental apartment on the lower floor. Per the Arcadia Coupeville book, page 120: In 1909 F. P. Race built the first telephone office between his drug store and the Sedge building (ICHS). Per PNRO, page 162 - the exchange from 1900 to the 1930s. From folder: Coupeville, 2 NW Front Street, Race Drugstore, Old Town Shop, Brenda's Gifts, Aqua.

Made/Created

Date made

Jul 30, 1972

Place

City

Coupeville, Washington

County

Island County

State/Province

Washington

Region

Cascades and Plateau, Whidbey Island

Continent

North America

Notes

Medium: Photographic Paper

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Becker, Mickey

Person or Organization

Perry, Hollis

Related Publications

Notes

RG 30