Name/Title
PhotographEntry/Object ID
2019.042.079Description
Photo of 12 NW Front Street with a central door, two bow windows, three across the upper front story and small windows on the side. A two story building with false front with a bell curved roof line. A fence is on the left. A view of Penn Cove is in the background. Lights are strung across the street to and from the store in different directions. 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: Blowers and Kineth 1886. p 96, 1 of 2. Photo taken 1971. From a sticky note: Kineth and Blowers Cash Store Sill's Grocery. Photo taken 1971.
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: Coupeville Cash Store
Unit 6, Drawer B (Coupeville Sills 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 GroceryMade/Created
Date made
1971Place
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