On the corner of Center and Mashell you’ll find Eatonville Outdoor — a shop for all your outdoor sports needs.
A hundred years ago you would have found a jewelry shot owned by the Joseph Hearn. He started his business in 1916. In 1918 Mr. Hearn sold the store to N. H. Larson.
The little shop has been a lot of things over the years, including the post office, but really hasn’t changed all that much.
Photos courtesy of Pat Van Eaton.
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I would have really liked it if Eatonville had had a bicycle shop back when I was a kid. There was a hardware store next to Christensens, but they didn’t carry much bike stuff, maybe some bicycle tires and innertubes, but none of the cool parts to make my home-made stingray look like a fancy store bought “Schwinn”, I would have to wait for my folks to go to Puyallup, so I could get stuff at the Coast to Coast store.
That building was the Post Office the intire time I lived in Eatonville, and earlier at ClearLake. I remember all along the wall were a bunch little brass doors with numbers on them, and windows in them, and a combination dial to open them. Those would be very cool to have today, just for a conversation piece in my den !!
Yeah, I remember it as a post office too, and then an antique store. lI never even thought of a bike shop when I was a kid. Most of our bikes were fixed with metal bailing twine or worse. 🙂
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