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Title
A57336-3
Date(s)
- 1951-04-03 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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Mohawk window display at Selden's Home Furnishings and Carpet store. A heavily brocaded sofa with a coffee table and end tables sits in front of a large patterned floral wallpaper in Selden's display window. S.C. Selden, a Parkland native and graduate of Lincoln High School, opened his own store in 1940 across from the Sears store on Broadway. He sold linoleum, window shades and carpeting. With the advent of World War II, carpet was not available but business was booming in blackout shades. Their shade assembly shop operated 16 hours a day, six days a week. After the war, the company scrambled to enter the post war housing era.
Furniture stores--Tacoma; Home furnishings stores--Tacoma; Selden's, Inc. (Tacoma);