Name/Title
L.N. Sill General Merchandise - Coupeville Water Festival 1930sEntry/Object ID
2019.042.077bDescription
Photo of people on Front Street, during a festival. The two buildings on the left are the Seagull Restaurant and Ln. Sill General Merchandise. Most of the people are walking away from the camera. The Seagull has a false front, front porch. A sign on the false front: Seagull Restaurant. The building on the left is 12 NW Front Street with a sign: Ln.Sill General Merchandise. It is currently a gift/toy store: Far From Normal (on the right), and Sea Bre's Yarn store on the left. Below is The Loft Eatery, and an apartment above. On the back: Coupeville, Indian Water Festival in the earlie (sic) 1930s.
Straub wagon shop, 1886 Coupeville Cash Store, 1899 Kineth and Wiggins, 1925 Ln. Sills General Mercandise, 1947 drug store, 1952 Coupeville Pharmacy, 1970 Butler's Bell Antiques, 1980s-1991 Great Times Espresso below, 1982-1983 fire and renovation, 1991 Great Times Coffee and Seattle's Best Coffee below until 2008, 1992 Skippers Crew Gift Gallery, 1996 Coffee, 2003 Penn Cove Anitques and Stray Dog, 2006 One More Thing (both sides), 2009 Mosquito Fleet below, 2011 Eagles Song Health Foods (until 2013) and Far From Normal (still there), 2014 Anchorage Real Estate, 2015 Whidbey Isle Yarns, 2019 Sea Bre's Yarns, Mosquito Fleet in 2019 The Loft Eatery below.
From old entry: Front St. N.L. Sill's bldg. Indian water festival 1933
Unit 6, Drawer B (Coupeville Sill's Grocery)
Per PNRO page 157: built 1886 by J. J. Straub. He used the lower portion as a wagon shop. Blowers and Kineth leased it in 1889 as the Coupeville Cash Store. Groceries until 1952 when it was the Coupeville Pharmacy. In 1959 an antique store. Extensive interior changes but exterior essentially intact.
http://chwahistoriccoupeville.com/buildings/blowers.html - from "A Peculiar Friend" by Jimmie Jean Cook.
From folder: Coupeville, 12 NW Front Street, Blowers and Kineth Cash Store, Sill's GroceryCollection
Penn Cove Water FestivalMade/Created
Date made
1933Place
City
Coupeville, WashingtonCounty
Island CountyState/Province
WashingtonRegion
Cascades and Plateau, Whidbey IslandContinent
North AmericaNotes
Early Date: 1930
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Penn Cove Water Festival