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I have a bunch of these old books. For folks who have lived around awhile, you'll likely remember the name Stan Jones. He produced, I believe annually, a Washington State fishing guide book. As a kid, I used to read and dream about fishing all the cool places I read about in his books.
A buddy recently gave me a guide book from 1960 / 61. It is a blast to look at the old ads for tackle and sports shops. There is an ad for a place called Ben Paris Sports Shop at Fourth & Pine in Seattle. They sold tackle, had a restaurant, cocktail bar, billiards, barber shop, sold smokers supplies and had a shoe shine stand. A tackle shop with a cocktail bar sounds like my kind of place.
You could also buy a Evinrude outboard from Frederick & Nelson's Department Store.
Here is a list of the top 5 winter steelhead streams 1957/58 and 1958/59
1957 / 58
Hump - 11,404
Green - 11,381
Skagit - 10,761
Cowlitz - 9,448
Puyallup - 7,954
1958 / 59
Skagit - 14,803
Green - 9,914
Hump -8,501
Cowlitz -7,573
Puyallup - 6,873
Anyone else keep any of these old books?
A buddy recently gave me a guide book from 1960 / 61. It is a blast to look at the old ads for tackle and sports shops. There is an ad for a place called Ben Paris Sports Shop at Fourth & Pine in Seattle. They sold tackle, had a restaurant, cocktail bar, billiards, barber shop, sold smokers supplies and had a shoe shine stand. A tackle shop with a cocktail bar sounds like my kind of place.
Here is a list of the top 5 winter steelhead streams 1957/58 and 1958/59
1957 / 58
Hump - 11,404
Green - 11,381
Skagit - 10,761
Cowlitz - 9,448
Puyallup - 7,954
1958 / 59
Skagit - 14,803
Green - 9,914
Hump -8,501
Cowlitz -7,573
Puyallup - 6,873
Anyone else keep any of these old books?