It’s Throwback Thursday — and time to take a look back through the dusty, bound volumes of the Bainbridge Island Review. The date: Oct. 26, 1945.
Front-page news:
WINSLOW POST OFFICE OPENS MONDAY IN NEW $7,000 WINSLOW WAY BUILDING
The Winslow post office began operations at its new location Monday morning. Postal clerks and postmaster spent a busy weekend moving equipment into the new brick structure on the corner of Winslow Way and the Old Dock Road.
Wrapped in winter coats because the heating system had not yet been connected, Postmaster Charles Seavey, Seabold, and his assistants, Miss Elva Davis and Miss Lillian Davis, both of Wing Point, were busy waiting on a rush of customers and maintaining some semblance of order in the melee of packing boxes and incoming and outgoing mail.
(The report noted that because the post office was occupying a rented structure and the building was not federal property, there would be no formal dedication ceremonies.)
“The only dedication we can make,” Mr. Seavey added, “is that we are especially happy to have the new space and we will be able to offer better service to our patrons.”
“Anyway, we have a special bouquet of flowers for the occasion,” Miss Elva Avis beamed. She offered for inspection a bouquet of fall dahlias, attractively arranged in a milk bottle for the edification of those in the building.
Arthur Hoff of Island Center announced the operation of a new chicken picker in the coming week, with three exclamation marks(!!!) in his classified ad. “Bring your chickens, ducks, turkeys, game birds for a clean easy picking job.”
Today and tomorrow, Oct. 26 and 27, the MGM film “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo” comes to the Lynwood Theatre at Pleasant Beach. With Van Johnson, Robert Walker and Spencer Tracy.
Admission is 45 cents for adults, 12 cents for children, and 25 cents for service men.
Earphones are available for the hard of hearing.
Shurfine Grocers in Lynwood offers “all the foods you need for a beWITCHing Halloween party.”
Milk, all brands, tall cans, six for 57 cents.
AN-I-ML dog food, 2-pound jar for 21 cents.
Sanka coffee, 35 cents a pound.
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