Did a little digging and discovered that The Marysville Globe has (only) two pre-21st century issues that are digitally archived (and searchable) -- 1959 and 1962.
This was fortuitous, because in 1961, my grandfather, Francis C. "Bud" Bry, purchased Marysville ApplianCenter from Clen Berglund (who'd founded the store in 1955), changing the name to Bry's ApplianCenter.
So what's the first photo I find of him in the archive, from the Jan. 25, 1962 edition? Unloading appliances from a rail car at Marysville's Great Northern Railway depot.
Grandpa Bry sold the store just eight years later to Rod Wolfe, in 1969, retaining the "Bry's" name.
In 2007, Wolfe passed the business on to his sons, Chad and Josh, and "Great Buys at Bry's" are still going strong. The "secret room" in the basement still lives on -- where the hi-fi stereo equipment used to be -- now it displays home theater systems.
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