History article written for the GFHS website,WEST STANLEY STREET (cont’d): The Sno-lsle Library system is conducting a program to collect images from throughout the County to document local history. Granite Falls Historical Society provided 130+ photos, and we are pleased to share some of them here with our readers. You can browse pictures from Granite Falls and other communities at: http://www.sno-isle.org/catalog/photos .In this issue, we’re taking a further look at some of the buildings on W. Stanley St. On the northwest corner of Stanley St and Granite Ave stood the Ashe Bros blacksmith shop and hardware store. These brothers were the father and uncles of the Ashe Bros who ran the automotive business we saw last time. When the hardware business was sold to Snyder, and subsequently to Bergan, the business moved to 8. Granite Ave and the building became the home of the Spar Tree Tavern for a ““ number of years (as shown in the winter scene from the early 19503). The building was ultimately ; dismantled to make way for Ike‘s Drive In, and the Spar Tree Tavern moved directly across the street into a small building originally built as the ‘ Johnson’s Cafe, where it still is today (occupying , part of the space on which the Commercial Hotel stood before 3“ burning in 1917). , Accession/Object ID: No accession number, Object Name: , Title: "Back in the Day" article, Author: Fred Cruger, Description: History article written for the GFHS website, Date: , OCR Text: WEST STANLEY STREET (cont’d): The Sno-lsle Library system is conducting a program to collect images from throughout the County to document local history. Granite Falls Historical Society provided 130 photos, and we are pleased to share some of them here with our readers. You can browse pictures from Granite Falls and other communities at: http://www.sno-isle.org/catalog/photos .In this issue, we’re taking a further look at some of the buildings on W. Stanley St. On the northwest corner of Stanley St and Granite Ave stood the Ashe Bros blacksmith shop and hardware store. These brothers were the father and uncles of the Ashe Bros who ran the automotive business we saw last time. When the hardware business was sold to Snyder, and subsequently to Bergan, the business moved to 8. Granite Ave and the building became the home of the Spar Tree Tavern for a ““ number of years (as shown in the winter scene from the early 19503). The building was ultimately ; dismantled to make way for Ike‘s Drive In, and the Spar Tree Tavern moved directly across the street into a small building originally built as the ‘ Johnson’s Cafe, where it still is today (occupying , part of the space on which the Commercial Hotel stood before 3“ burning in 1917). , Granite Falls Historical Society,Documents (articles, clippings, letters, papers),Local History Articles,Back in the Day (local),Stanley_St_contd.pdf,Stanley_St_contd.pdf Page 1, Stanley_St_contd.pdf Page 1