Name/Title
Seagull RestaurantEntry/Object ID
2019.042.071Description
Photo of a building with a false front, front porch. There are two doors and two wide windows. The door on the right is double. A Ford station wagon is parked in front. A sign resting on the front porch: Seagull Restaurant. A sign hanging from the false front with a lamp over it: Seagull Restaurant Fine Food. This building is 10 NW Front Street. Store, restaurants, Seagull Restaurant. Remodeled and 2nd story with gabled window on right side added in 2017-2019, Rain Puddles Kid Boutique on left; right vacant at this time.
On the back: #79 (1 of 2). John Robertson store 1866
From old entry: Seagull Restaurant, John Robertson 1866 store
Unit 6, Drawer A (Coupeville Front St.)
Per PNRO page 159: built 1866 and acquired by John Robertson. Various restaurants. Dock built in 1883 now gone. Photo in book is Portofino restaurant.
http://chwahistoriccoupeville.com/buildings/rstore.html has more details and photos as does "A Peculiar Friend" by Jimmie Jean Cook. Basic timeline: 1909 candy store, 1910 Kineth and Wiggins Store, 1912 Busy Bee Restaurant, 1916 Benson sold candy and ice cream, 1918 Capaan butcher shop/meat market, 1948 Jule's Cafe, 1964 Sea Gull Cafe, 1971 SeaGull, 1976 Feds padlocked it. 1980-1982 Porto Fino, 1991 Ryan's Landing, 1992 Captain Jack's Galley, 1995-2007 Mad Crab, 2013 unoccupied until major renovation 2017-2019. 2019- Rain Puddles Kid Boutique (on left side).
From folder: Coupeville, 5 NW Front Street (not sure why these photos were in this folder).Made/Created
Place
City
Coupeville, WashingtonCounty
Island CountyState/Province
WashingtonRegion
Cascades and Plateau, Whidbey IslandContinent
North AmericaNotes
Medium: Photographic PaperLexicon
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Category 08: Communication Objects