Looking Back’s theme for 2026 is Downtown by the Decades. The Olympia Oyster Company building (now the Olympia Oyster House restaurant at 320 4th Avenue W) was designed in 1924 by architect Joseph Wohleb as a packing and storage facility for the Olympia Oyster Company. This is the only remaining building from Olympia’s oyster industry in downtown Olympia. Image selected and captioned by Deborah Ross on behalf of the Olympia Historical Society and Bigelow House Museum, https://olympiahistory.org.
Jeffers studio photograph, 1924, Courtesy State Capital Museum collection, Washington State Historical Society