Yellow Pages
June 24, 1909
All the telegraph, telephone and electric light poles in the city of Anacortes will be freshly painted within the next month, complying with City Ordinance No. 289, which requires that all such poles or other means of transmitting electricity shall be painted with two coats of paint of uniform color.
June 26, 1919
Letters may be mailed for 2 cents and postcards for 1 cent next Tuesday. On June 30 the war revenue rate of 3 cents for letters and 2 cents for postcards will be discontinued, and the return to the old rate will come in time to make it an additional reason for celebrating the Fourth of July.
June 27, 1929
A cagey brewer left cops scratching their heads when they raided a house and discovered 95 bottles of beer, a copper wash bucket, a galvanized tub, beer mash and other brewing paraphernalia. But the brewer was no where to be found. A man named R. Payne rented the house at 36th Street and T Avenue, but police were unable to identify or find him, and they don’t know how he escaped, as all doors were wedged from the inside.
June 22, 1939
Monday, June 26th, Anacortes motor vehicle operators will find the red stop light at 20th and Commercial avenue in the city, officially removed, following action taken by the city council this week to remove the light. The death knell to the brief but turbulent history of the “stop” light question was sounded this week when the city passed an ordinance nulling the light. Following a five day period after the adoption of the new ordinance the light will be removed. However, under the new ordinance full stops at the intersection of 20th will still be demanded.
June 23, 1949
One of the largest and finest neon signs in Anacortes has recently been installed at the Childress furniture store at 4th and Commercial avenue in the city. The sign running the height of the two story building spells out “Furniture” in green neon lights with a flashing orange neon on top spelling the word “Childress.” Neon tubes running around the marquee at the store also add to the outstanding lighting effect of the store.
June 25, 1959
One of Anacortes’ hottest “athletic” commodities isn’t a man — it’s a horse! Bearing the deceptively mannish title, Dr. J. Howard. He’s the three-year-old of G.L. Munks, March’s Point pioneer, who is described by no less a track authority than the Seattle Times’ Kent Powell as “the most glittering prospect unveiled this season at Longacres.” Sunday, June 7, Dr. Howard, named for a retired Skagit County veterinarian, covered six furlongs in 1:09 3/5, the fastest time of the year at the suburban Seattle race track. He won by three lengths, a fair triumph as winning distances go.
June 27, 1979
A California couple that bought a “dream building site” for their Anacortes retirement home last October were astounded, a few weeks ago, to discover an almost-complete home built on their lot. According to Ed and Mary Pranger of Los Gatos, Calif., Mrs. Pranger’s sister found the house during a trip from her San Juan Islands home into Anacortes. Mrs. Pranger hazarded a guess that someone in the developer’s office simply forgot to cross the lot off the map after the real estate agency sold it.
June 28, 1989
The Lady of the Sea statue committee, through its artists’ jury group, has chosen two finalists for the project. Deborah Copenhaver of Spokane and Jane Horns Mitchell of Port Townsend Blue Heron Foundry now will create 36-inch models of their submissions.... The private, non-profit group wants to place the statue atop Cap Sante’s Lookout Point. Because this is public property, some residents have objected to the proposed statue’s placement. The statue would be approximately 60 feet tall.
— From the archives of the Anacortes American
