File:Wallin & Nordstrom shoe store interior showing company staff and the length of the showroom, Seattle, ca 1907 (MOHAI 2487).jpg

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In 1901, two former Klondike gold miners, Carl Wallin and John Nordstrom pooled their $5000 and opened a shoe store at 318 Pike Street in downtown Seattle. Four years later, the firm moved to 1327 Second Avenue.

Here, in what may be the second store, the staff gathers in the narrow showroom. John Nordstrom stands to the left, and Carl Wallin to the right.

The firm has had a long history. Wallin sold out to Nordstrom in 1929. The company merged with Best's Apparel department store in 1963, and, after ten years as Nordstrom Best's, became Nordstrom in 1973.

Original photo copied by P-I staff photographer. Handwritten on sleeve: SEATTLE, STORES, Nordstrom's, anniversary. Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): May 18, 1961. Caption information source: James Warren, King County and its Queen City, Seattle; John W. Nordstrom, The Immigrant in 1887.

• Subjects (LCTGM): Shoe stores--Washington (State)--Seattle; Nordstrom (Firm)--Washington (State)--Seattle; Sales personnel--Washington (State)--Seattle; Business people--Washington (State)--Seattle; Shoe industry--Washington (State)--Seattle; Merchandise displays--Washington (State)--Seattle; Ladders--Washington (State)--Seattle
• People: Nordstrom, John W.; Wallin, Carl F.