Sedro-Woolley sights

Things have perked up in S-W now that the weather is more seasonal and people are doing things outdoors! Here are some photos for you:


This is the old JC Penney building, which was also the Jungquist Furniture store most recently. Now it is owned by Pat Farrell, who will place retail tenants inside. It has 17,000 total square feet on three floors! Northeast corner of State and Metcalf.

















Here is JB Bryson, who seems to ride his motorcycle in the rain or shine! The background building is the old S-W City Hall building, which is now owned by Janicki Industries. The new city hall was featured on a previous post!















Here is one of the great downtown murals painted on the side of the Holland Drug Store building.

Bus Jungquist, S-W businessman, passes away

Another icon of Sedro-Woolley is gone. “Bus” Jungquist, owner of the furniture store in downtown Sedro-Woolley from 1967 to 2008, was a big supporter of Sedro-Woolley and our high school. He passed away on April 1, 2009 at the age of 91.

Bus graduated from Burlington-Edison High School in 1936 and attended WSU for one year. He married his college sweetheart, Bernice, in 1939 and served in the Army from 1943 until 1946. He worked in several business in Skagit County (including owning Bus’s Grocery on Jameson Street in S-W) until he opened Bus Jungquist Furniture in 1967. It was an anchor store in our downtown, long before the concept of “malls” and “anchor stores” became familiar. He served as the distribution center for miniature wooden hope chests provided by the Lane Furniture Company to all graduating senior girls and we all made that shy trip into the store to ask for ours. It was such a great pleasure for him and the Lane representative became one of his closest friends.

He was an active Rotarian and belonged to George Baldridge Post #43 American Legion and Trinity United Presbyterian Church. He was a mainstay at Joy’s Bakery downtown where we all still go to “see and be seen”. He served the city and his community in many other ways. His full obit is available at:
http://www.legacy.com/skagitvalleyherald/Obituaries.asp?Page=Lifestory&PersonId=125703681

Or check www.goskagit.com for obituaries published on April 4, 2009.

Thanks, Bus, for showing us what an independent business owner does for the town he supports. We remember you.