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As part of our 100th Anniversary celebration, we asked people to send us their memories of Ye Olde Curiosity Shop. If you have memories you'd like to share email us at since1899@aol.com.
Subj: "YE OLE CURIOSITY SHOP"
Date: 5/2/99 12:13:31 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: BigQunBee@*******
My name is Carol McCormack (nee Myers) & I am now 64 years old, but when I was in the 5th or 6th grade at the old Lafayette Elem. School in West Seattle I was assigned to do a talk on armidillos.
Barbara James was a classmate and was somehow related to the owner of the shop.
There was - and probably still is - a stuffed armadillo in the shop that she was able to borrow for me. It made my talk a big success as it was passed from one student to another for a closer look at the little armored animal that none of us had seen before except possibly in a picture.
This, of course, was when the shop was below the ferry terminal and the whale's jaw bones were in front - as in the picture in the paper.
Carol McCormack Tacoma, WA
bigqunbee@*******
Subj: I remember...
Date: 5/2/99 4:00:57 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: dagstar@******.com (Dagmar Peterson)
Sometime in the early 70's I remember going with my kindergarten class to Seattle and one of the places we got to visit was the "old curiosity shop". Of course I loved it....I remember gazing in awe at the "real" mermaid and scaring myself with the shrunken heads. Im not sure how long we were there but at some point the teacher started to round us up...so I crawled under a table next to some interesting vases and things and tried to act invisible. After a while a nice gentleman that worked there spied me and crawled down under the table with me. "Are you scared of the mummies hon?",he asked. "No,I said,"They want to go home and I wanna live here!" Well, they eventually drug me outta there but first he gave me a real neat necklace that he swore used to be owned by a beautiful Indian queen and a bag of candy made somewhere exotic. That was the best day of my 5 yr old life...and I will always remember him. Thank you, thank you and thank you for creating so much magic for me...I still love the curiosity shop and bring my son whenever possible. Dont ever ever close!
Dagmar Peterson
Subj: HAPPY 100TH
Date: 4/23/99 4:10:13 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: micheley@******.com
To: SINCE1899@AOL.COM
JUST READ THAT "YE OLDE CURIOSITY SHOP" IS CELEBRATING THEIR 100TH. I THINK THAT'S GREAT. AS A YOUNG GIRL, ANY TIME WE CAME TO SEATTLE I HAD TO VISIT YOUR STORE! AT ONE POINT I THOUGHT THE SPIDER "LIVING" WITH SYLVESTER WAS ALIVE, AS HE WAS ALWAYS IN A DIFFERENT PLACE EVERY TIME. AS AN ADULT NOW, I HAVE SHARED THIS EXPERIENCE WITH MY SON. I HOPE "YE OLDE CURIOSITY SHOP" IS ALWAYS THERE FOR CHILDREN OF ALL AGES!
THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES,
MICHELE YUHASZ
Subj: Contact-Us Form: Zachary DeWitt
Date: 8/4/99 10:25:58 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: *****@*****.COM
To: since1899@aol.com (Ye Olde Curiosity Shop)
The following person filled out a Contact-Us Form on MerchandiZer:
Name = Zachary DeWitt
EMail = **********
Notes = Hi my name is Zachary, I live in Spanaway Wa. Im 9 years old. I love the curiosity shop, it has so many neat things in there. Im so excited because in July of this summer I was the first to see the 2 headed sheep. It was the coolest thing I have ever seen! And I was the first one to ever see it! Many thanks to the staff who took me in the office to see it! Your Friend
Zachary
Date: 12/17/1999 2:09:25 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: rish@*****.k12.mn.us (Cornelius Rish)
To: since1899@aol.com (since1899)
Reply to: RE: Ye Olde Curiosity Shop - Part 4
Thanks for all the fun stuff! My school kids will soon enjoy the crystal rocks and weird fishes! Your shop is very unique . . . keep it that way!
Subj: My Memories.
Date: 12/28/1999 12:58:08 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: jerome@*******.***.***
Hello. I just wanted to tell you of my fond memories of Ye Olde Curiosity Shop. I was first introduced to this wonderful little store sometime in the early seventies. I was taken there with my day care class on one of many trips to the waterfront. I was absolutely fascinated with the mermaid and her baby. I spent many an hour back then wondering if it was real. Groups of us would stand under it and crain our necks. Hmmm, real? Ha ha.
I spent a lot of time staring at Sylvester and his more withered friend, not to mention all of the other curiosities. I never forgot any of them. I still have the little seashell box I bought on that first trip. I just went back to the shop the other day. It has lost none of its fascination for me.
Even though I now live in Oregon Ye Olde Curiosity Shop still stands as my favorite store of all time.
Thanks, Summer.