Frank Sparks at Mann’s Seeds in 1965

Frank Sparks looks over an antique prescription case in this photograph from 1965. His grandfather was Champion Mann, who first operated a pharmacy downtown, and later opened Mann’s Seeds, at the current location of Rainy Day Records on 5^th Avenue. Sparks was closing the store after many years of operation, the victim of mass production and distribution of seed. 

Daily Olympian photo, February 1965, State Capital Museum collection, Washington State Historical Society, catalog C1986.43.65.2.0.2.1

Text © Deborah Ross and The Olympian 2020