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Tillie and Louise Hausler in front of Hausler Grocery, Hillman City, 1902
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| Title | Tillie and Louise Hausler in front of Hausler Grocery, Hillman City, 1902 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | 1902 |
| Caption | Rhinehold and Tillie Hausler opened this, the first of their grocery stores, in 1901. In 1905 they moved to a new wooden building at Rainier and Rose in Rainier Beach, and in 1921 they built a new brick building next door which housed a drugstore and hardware store. |
| Notes | Signs in image read: Grocery and Meat Market. Prudent People Purchase Pearline. Harvard[?] Dental Parlors - [...] Set Teeth $4.00. Tonup Tonic - Makes Strong Nerves. Oh me! Oh my! 99 Coffee. We sell Star Shoes. Bread.
Handwritten on image: Hausler Store - Rainier & Graham - 1902.
See transcribed article in "Additional Information" below for more information. |
| Subjects | Grocery stores--Washington (State)--Seattle
Hausler, Tillie
Hausler, Louise
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| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Hillman City (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Rainier Valley Historical Society Photograph Collection |
| Accession Number | 95.027.007 |
| Ordering Information | To order a copy of this photograph, please email Rvhsoffice@aol.com and mention the Accession Number. |
| Repository | Rainier Valley Historical Society, Seattle |
| Repository Collection | Stevens Collection |
| Physical Description | 1 photographic print: b&w; 3 1/4 x 4 1/2 in. |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
| Additional Information | Mr. and Mrs. Hausler bought the inventory and the lease on this building for $100 they didn't have. He got the money by pawning his wife's wedding ring.
It was 1901 when Rhinehold Hausler and his wife Mathilda, known as "Tillie" decided to come to Seattle from their home in New York. They arrived on January 15th and two days later were in the grocery and meat business.
As you can see, it was more of a one-room cabin than a store. It was located on the northwest corner of Rainier Avenue and Graham Street. If you look in the lower right hand corner of the photo you will see the steel tracks of the Seattle Renton & Southern Street Car line. The tracks were right next to the grocery store porch. According to the notes on the back of the original photo, the merchandise ordered by the Hauslers for the store's inventory was delivered by the street cars. The conductors just unloaded whatever they had ordered right onto their front porch.
Tillie Hausler is the woman standing in the doorway with her daughter Louise standing at her left. If you look close you can see half a lamb hanging on the door casing at Tillie's right. Like the sign across the front of the store indicates, it was also a meat market. The small rectangular sign under the "Market" on the big sign says: "Prudent People Purchase Pearline." Under that sign is another, smaller sign promoting "99" brand coffee.
On the left end of the wooden porch are four crocks, all a different size. They could be filled with bulk foods for sale but are more likely for sale empty for the customer food storage needs at home. On the porch, under the window, are open wooden boxes, tilted on edge, displaying potatoes, vegetables, fruit, grains, etc., a typical display for grocery stores in the early days.
The Hauslers operated the store for three years and were able to put some money aside with the plan of moving into a larger building. When land developer C.D. Hillman opened his Atlantic City Addition in 1905, they purchased some land at Rose Street and moved into their new, two-story wooden building. They added a hardware store and had an apartment for themselves on the second floor. The name of their business was changed to "Atlantic Market and Grocery" and they added a delivery service.
By Buzz Anderson, 2/28/01 |
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