Jerry's View: Our old office gets a facelift
Let me tell you about 9811 17th SW where this colorful mural is taking shape. I used to own that building. It was my home away from home as the White Center News office for nearly 25 years...
When we bought the paper it was on Roxbury in a building which now houses a restaurant and the offices for the Velling
Family Dentistry.
The old building started out as a Chinese restaurant on 16th S.W. and 98th S.W. and which caught fire when the owner was using gasoline to clean the hood on the oven.
Bud Atwood and Oren Artlip owned the Ranch Market across street on 16th S.W. and bought the burned out hulk and then traded it to me for advertising . I had the damaged hulk dragged down to 17th S.W. where it became the White Center News after a lot of remodeling.
The sign was refurbished and placed on top.
The building next door which now houses Malo Auto Rebuild was the original White Center Feed Store, moved from quarters on 16th S.W.
For awhile, we had customers coming in the front door of our newspaper office trying to buy oats and hay. We offered them an annual subscription instead.
On our north side, our neighbor on the top floor was Dr. Roy Velling.