OT Businesses that you grew up with that no longer exist

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OT Businesses that you grew up with that no longer exist

Post by D-train » Sun Feb 15, 2026 7:35 pm

Going to channel SH with a wacky poll while we wait for the first game on Friday.

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Re: OT Businesses that you grew up with that no longer exist

Post by Bil522 » Sun Feb 15, 2026 8:23 pm

When I started 5th grade, I started delivering newspapers for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer at 4:30 am every morning. Heck, that was back when the Times was an afternoon paper. I had that job through college.

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Post by Sibelius Hindemith » Sun Feb 15, 2026 9:02 pm

I went to Pay 'n Save and Ernst-Malmo often with my mom back in the late 70s.

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Post by D-train » Sun Feb 15, 2026 9:18 pm

Pay and Pak
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Post by D-train » Sun Feb 15, 2026 9:19 pm

Bil522 wrote:
Sun Feb 15, 2026 8:23 pm
When I started 5th grade, I started delivering newspapers for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer at 4:30 am every morning. Heck, that was back when the Times was an afternoon paper. I had that job through college.
Was so awesome having a morning paper I would read during my mid morning snack and lunch at 1pm then come home to having in the fresh unread Times on my door step in the evening...
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Post by desbcoach » Sun Feb 15, 2026 11:37 pm

Squire shop for jeans. Atlas Van Lines and Pay n Pak. Used to watch all 3 sponsor Hydroplanes on Columbia river

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Post by D-train » Sun Feb 15, 2026 11:40 pm

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Post by Donn Beach » Mon Feb 16, 2026 2:14 am

Remember watching Pay n Pak go out of business. Their inventory control was lousy. The big box stores refined just in time inventory control

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Post by Sibelius Hindemith » Mon Feb 16, 2026 2:22 am

Frederick & Nelson (1890-1992)

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Post by Donn Beach » Mon Feb 16, 2026 2:26 am

Dieterich Post, they were downtown. Drafting, engineering and architectural supplies. My first job out of highschool, delivery for them

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