Comments on: Fingerprints on a Glazed Donut

By: david

david — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:43:07 +0000

Hey, finding this was fun … I grew up in Grandview at just about this very same time. I remember all those same places. Let’s see … Grandview Food Center / Red Apple Market was where I went to buy comic books. Western Auto was where my dad and grandfather would go to get whatever they need to buy to make or fix whatever they were making or fixing and I got the penny gum from the machine by the doors. Hubby’s of course had all the video games. Bonanza 88 had, well … various things. I remember when the new Masters of the Universe or Transformers figures would show up there and all my friends would try to figure out how to get their moms to take them there after school so they could get ‘Trap Jaw’ before it sold out.

I ended up coming back to Grandview for a while about 6 yrs ago and it was just not the same. Oh well, stuff changes I guess.

By: Barb

Barb — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Just a note regarding Bonanza 88 cent Store. My mother was the soft goods lady at their store in Caldwell,Idaho during the seventies and eighties. I even worked their on Christmas around 1981. they sold toewls, household items, candy, and lot of the things you find in the dollar stores today. They were owned at them time by Washington wholesalers out of Washington State. You can get ahold of me at my email address. Thank You!
Dated February 11, 2004

By: steve and sharon

steve and sharon — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

my wife and i owned star foods from 1982 to 1996, we truely enjoyed all are custermers and are workers from that time . the bakery was always a joy to watch the young people come in and comment on the size of the apple friters! we truely was blessed with the good bakers we where able to have. we miss the way the town was in the early 80′s

By: Joe Clark

Joe Clark — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Another note re Bonanza 88 – - I was working for Washington Wholesalers at the time the Grandview store opened (1981 I believe) and helped with the grand opening. I then was transfered to the Yakima store, then Walla Walla, then back to Grandview as manager. We sold clothing and other softgoods as well as hardware, health and beauty aids, etc. I left Bonanza and went to work for Pinnell Office Equipment and stayed in Grandview for about 8 years, moving back to Spokane in 1989. Bonanza eventually entered bankruptcy and most of the the locations became new homes for Yellow Front stores. I now am a swimming pool contractor in San Felipe Mexico. I loved Grandview and miss it. Anyone who recognizes my name, drop me a line at JoeandSueClark@yahoo.com.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The Riders did not put up the wood on the outside of the hardware store Francis Patnode did just like his brothers store in Benton city I enjoyed the page thanks