Back of Photo: New Post Office The Auburn Post Office moved from its previous cramped quarters at 1st and Auburn Ave to this new 19,000-square-feet building at 11 and 3rd St. NW last month. The $330,000 concrete black and window wall building was built and is owned by the Lease Co. of Seattle and is leased to the Post Office Department on a 20-year lease.
Back of Photo: Steve Bowen and Gerald Gorg, workmen from the Auburn Street Dept. hang a new directory sign near the intersection of Main St. and B St. Auburn is sprucing up its downtown shopping core with new identification sign. Photo by Russ Carmack
Back of Photo: David Comstock, of Comstock's Bindery and Bookshop on E. Main in Auburn, adjusts a window display. He moved his store here from downtown Seattle (years ago). Rushton story Haley
Back of Photo: Portway's Store about 1886 or 1887. Purchased from L.W.B., the first business building in what is now Auburn. Building later renamed and known as Star Hotel.
Back of Photo: -Ape Cake- Roland Winbeckler, chief decorator for a bakery in suburban Kent, daubbed frosting on a 6-foot, 4-inch gorilla made of banana cake and butter-cream icing. The ape will go on display at a Tacoma firm's private zoo. The 30-year-old Winbeckler has carved all sorts of animals and people out of cake and hopes someday to do something "outrageous" like a life-size Empire State Building or busy street scene.
