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Mary’s Snack Bar and Gutted Creating (1957 and 2010)
A more succinct model ran on Seattlest.
This constructing has housed many sad stories, but has a indicator of hope.
It really is at the corner of McClellan and Martin Luther King Way Jr. South in Seattle.
Right here was my methodology: I went to King County Parcel Viewer to get the handle for the constructing, and then searched the net and Seattle Times archives for that deal with and next doorway. I took names that arrived out and searched in the Washington Condition Electronic Archives for dates of beginning, spousal relationship, and dying as nicely as spouses, dad and mom and children. Then I took individuals dates and names and went back to Seattle Moments to see if I could discover much more.
In 1905 Oheda Kulnujia came to The us with her household from Turkey, joining an uncle who had been in Seattle given that before the Yukon gold rush. In 1922 she married John Arten, who himself had arrived in the US in 1909 from Turkey or Armenia.
in 1927 John paid out to have this developing made at the corner of McClellan and then-Empire Way. It had simple accessibility to streetcars and the Renton interurban just a block absent on Rainier. And, it was located on a new road which was carrying far more car traffic every single yr. It was the boom time of the nineteen twenties. Oheda gave beginning to a daughter, Mary, in 1925. John paid 00 for the creating, and it had place for his shoe repair enterprise in front and for his family members to reside in the back again. (9/29/1927 ST p29)
In 1941 Mary was nearly accomplished in by all that car site visitors. The automobile she was in was struck by another vehicle in a bad crash. But she created it by way of. In 1950 she was wed for a temporary yr, lengthy sufficient to give birth to a daughter, also named Mary. Each held the name Medzegian.
At the time of our previous photograph, 1957, Mary was working a "snack bar" restaurant in fifty percent of the retail area. The boisterousness of the signs shows how well the household was carrying out.
Oheda passed away in 1964 (5/18/1964 ST p39). It really is unclear of the actual trigger, but the two organizations had been shut in 1967 and the devices offered off. Possibly as the more youthful Mary graduated large school her mom moved on? (ST classifieds February and March 1967)
And perhaps John was no more time ready to operate his company. He died at the conclude of 1969. (12/fifteen/1969 ST p45).
Mary — or maybe renters? — misplaced her poodle "Taffy" in 1970 (two/18/1970 ST classfied)
The elder Mary owned the building until 2002, and passed absent in 2004
The building was gutted by hearth in 2007.
But just as it would seem the story is petering out in unhappiness, two brilliant spots.
Great samaratins saved two men and women from the fireplace.
And now, a sign of hope in the combat versus most cancers graces the developing.