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[30] Christopher Frizzelle included Lumber Yard in The Stranger 's 2018 and 2023 overviews of Seattle's best LGBT establishments. [3] [15] In a 2023 overview of the metropolitan area's queer establishments, Seattle Gay News said Adams and Farrar "[offer] an experience that calls back to the pair's love for hosting". [31]
The sale left Pay 'n Save with 69 Ernst stores, three Yard Birds stores and wholesaler Northwestern Drug Co. [9] In January 1986, Pay 'n Save was renamed Seattle Standard Corp. [10] In March 1986, Hal Smith, former president of Irvine, California-based Builders Emporium, succeeded Mike Rouleau as president and CEO of Ernst. [11]
In this general area, a 1910 listing of piers in 1907 lists "King & Wing Shipyard (leased of West Seattle Land and Improvement Company)" and "city docks (partially occupied by Calhoun & Krauss Lumber Company)." [8] ("King & Wing" is certainly a typo, should be "King & Winge".)
Seattle - Kerry Lumber Mill - 1900 By 1900, with timber supplies in the upper Midwest already dwindling, American loggers looked further west to the Pacific Northwest . The shift west was sudden and precipitous: in 1899, Idaho produced 65 million board feet of lumber; in 1910, it produced 745 million. [ 53 ]
A lumber yard sorting table in Falls City, Oregon Frank A. Jagger loads his boat full of lumber at the Albany Lumber District in Albany, New York in the 1870s. A lumber yard is a location where lumber and wood-related products used in construction and/or home improvement projects are processed or stored.
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The explosion of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980, devastated the local lumber industry, as 12 million board feet of stockpiled lumber and 4 billion board feet of salable timber was damaged or destroyed. [22] Unemployment surged to double digits, and the town lost most of its retail base. [23]
Simpson was a prominent forest products company in Northern California for much of the 20th century, after first acquiring California timberland in 1945, eventually managing more than 450,000 acres of forest in California, in what was then known as the Redwood Division and is now mostly part of spinoff Green Diamond Resource Company.