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Bay View Cash Stores

The first Bay View Cash Store shown
at right (1908-1916) was owned by
Adolph Meier, a German immigrant. His
house (still standing) and nearby store
was located on the Deer Lagoon side of
SR 525. At high tide shallow draft boats
could pull up to a lower warehouse dock
and load and unload supplies.
At some point Adolph’s son, Ernest
(Ernie), began to run the store with
Charlie Lund. The store burned down
in 1916 and Deer Lagoon was diked in
1918. Circa 1911
A 1920 census shows that Adolph and In 1924 William Burk built a store at store for 45 years. He was known for his
his wife, Minnie, had moved to Tolt (re- the crossroads of the south end of the generosity to people during the Great
named Carnation), WA where he opened Island. Anyone traveling north from Depression.
the Meier Mercantile Co., the site of a Clinton or Langley had to pass through
safe robbery in that same year. there to access the road north.
Burk had Bay View Cash Store for
only six years when he sold it to Har-
old Johnston in 1930, who then ran the

Delivery vehicle of the grocery, feed and grain
store about 1915. The driver was likely Ernie
Meier (son of Adolph) or Charlie Lund.
Bay View Cash Store owners in the late 1920s,
the Burks.
William Burk built the Bay View Cash Store in Photo courtesy of Judy Johnston Workman
1924 and sold it to Harold Johnston in 1930 p Betty Johnston Nichols
who operated it for 45 years. u
in front of the Bay View Cash
Store, circa 1940 Gas was 20
cents a gallon.

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