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Building History

As noted by architect/historian Larry Johnson in the Johnson Partnership Blog on Roosevelt History, the storefronts at 6402 and 6404 Roosevelt Way NE, had a number of occupants over the years. The building, erected in 1929, consisted of the storefronts at 6404, 6402 and 6400 Roosevelt Way. (See Larry Johnson, The Johnson Partnership.com, "6402 Roosevelt Way: from 1929 to 2015," published 08/11/2015, accessed 11/09/2018.)

Initially, Pasadena-based Van de Kamp's Bakery had its Roosevelt location at 6400 Roosevelt, opening to the public on 08/07/1929. This Dutch-themed bakery chain signaled its presence to motorists by the construction of large windmills on the roofs of its stores. Van de Kamp's operated bakeries in its earliest years, but also developed a coffee shop business, too, but not at this Roosevelt adddress. It remained here until 1956, to be replaced by another bakery, the Bon Ton French Bakery.

A local market, O.P. Skaggs Food Store, leased the 6402 and 6404 space by 1930, but was replaced by a an outlet of the New York grocery chain, the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, "A & P" for short, (at 6404) and the 19th store of the local Bartell's Drug Store (at 6402), by the late 1930s. By 1946, a Rhodes 10-Cent Store, a branch of the Seattle five-and-ten-cent store chain, utilized the combined 6402 and 6404 commercial space.

PCAD id: 22507