Name/Title

Photograph

Entry/Object ID

2019.042.105

Description

Photo of the one story building at 21 NW Front Street. It has a low false front, offset door, double windws on the left. Sign: Island County Abstract Co. Three stairs leading to the door. Still looks like a dirt road. On the back: Front Street, Abstract Office. From a sticky note: Wet Whiskers Coffee Shop with sign of cat. The building to its right has a sign: Island County Times. A large telephone pole is on the road between them. From old entry: Main Street. Front Street view, Island County Abstract Co. in foreground Early 1900s-1957 Abstract Office, 1950s-1960s Barber Shop, 1969, Stewart's Wet Whisker Ice Cream and started Stewart Coffee (later Seattle's Best Coffee), 1974 or 1976, Kristen's Ice Cream Parlor and More and in off season, Susnet Home Video, 1982 raised 3 feet, concrete foundation and new stairs, 1987 Hole in the Wall, 2002-present Kapaw's Iskreme. Per PNRO page 152: built in 1906 for the Island County Times, various businesses since. http://chwahistoriccoupeville.com/buildings/icecream.html. See also, "A Peculiar Friend" by Jimmie Jean Cook. From folder: Coupeville, 17 NW Front Street, Lester Still Law Office 1909, Island County Times, W.T. Howard Publishing 1986, The Cove From old entry: Unit 6, Drawer A (Coupeville Front St)

Made/Created

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 Publications

Notes

RG 30