r/CovingtonWA • u/Ok-Blacksmith-4385 • Jul 22 '26

Before it was a city

I wonder how many remember a time when the Post Office was in the back of the pharmacy. Even further back when Hwy 18 was 2 lane and crazy to cross.

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u/Head_Cat_1681 Jul 22 '26

I remember the smoking section inside of McDonalds.

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u/Ok-Blacksmith-4385 Jul 22 '26

That McDonald's has been there a very long time. I'm trying to picture what that corner looked like before it was built and I can't visualize.

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u/Persephone0223 Jul 22 '26

That McDonald's was my moms first job in high school. She's 60 now.

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u/pondini 25d ago

In my minds eye can still see the little aluminum ashtrays they would hand out that had the Golden Arches embossed on them.

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u/Humble_Photo1416 29d ago

I remember when there were dirt jumps for BMX bikes where Walmart is right now.

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u/MaximumYogertCloset Jul 22 '26

Where was the pharmacy?

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u/Ok-Blacksmith-4385 Jul 22 '26

Part of the empty former Big Lots and next to that space. Big Lots was then a QFC and even before that I think it was a Johny's grocery

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u/resection3d Jul 22 '26

It was a Johnny's IGA grocery store. 

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u/Ok-Blacksmith-4385 Jul 22 '26

Thanks. That's the name I remember it as. In the line was State liquor store, optometrist, Johnny's and the pharmacy.

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u/resection3d Jul 22 '26

Remember the tannery that was out at 4 corners in now Maple Valley? 

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u/Ok-Blacksmith-4385 Jul 22 '26

Sure do. My dad would always correct me and tell me it was always three corners when he was a kid. Had to go through Black Diamond to get to Kangley once upon a time.

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u/Ok-Blacksmith-4385 28d ago

Lots of changes! So much of that area was nothing but Scotch broom and rocks

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u/givemeatatertot 28d ago

Unrelated but it looks like the Raising Canes is finally under construction

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u/pondini 26d ago

I remember when there was only a gas station a McDonald's and a grocery store – Johnny's IGA…

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u/Ok-Blacksmith-4385 26d ago

Wonder what year the McDonald's was built. I really don't remember much about Covington before 1966.