The C Shop

4825 Alderson Road
Blaine, WA 98230
United States (US)

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The C Shop Story

by Patricia Alesse

In the summer of 1970 Mr. Alesse was considering what he might do as a summer job to coordinate with his teaching job. He considered fishing in Alaska but neither one of us liked the idea of him being gone all summer. He considered working at the border, but he said, “Then you are always on the look out for what people are doing wrong, and that’s not my style.” The other obvious choice for a summer thing in the Blaine area is a business at Birch Bay.

That whole summer we cruised the bay like the teenagers. We looked at the businesses that were already there and tried to figure out what Birch Bay needed. We also spent a lot of time along the Oregon coast which had always been one of our favorite vacation spots. As we looked over their businesses, we were constantly asking ourselves, “What do they have that Birch Bay could use.” Mrs. Alesse’s mom had a sorority sister whose parents ran caramel corn shops in Long Beach and Seaside so, by contacts through them, we had an opportunity to talk to some candy store owners. Of all the ideas we thought about, that one seemed like the most fun to us, and there was nothing like it at Birch Bay.

The C Shop Story

by Patricia Alesse

In the summer of 1970 Mr. Alesse was considering what he might do as a summer job to coordinate with his teaching job. He considered fishing in Alaska but neither one of us liked the idea of him being gone all summer. He considered working at the border, but he said, “Then you are always on the look out for what people are doing wrong, and that’s not my style.” The other obvious choice for a summer thing in the Blaine area is a business at Birch Bay.

That whole summer we cruised the bay like the teenagers. We looked at the businesses that were already there and tried to figure out what Birch Bay needed. We also spent a lot of time along the Oregon coast which had always been one of our favorite vacation spots. As we looked over their businesses, we were constantly asking ourselves, “What do they have that Birch Bay could use.” Mrs. Alesse’s mom had a sorority sister whose parents ran caramel corn shops in Long Beach and Seaside so, by contacts through them, we had an opportunity to talk to some candy store owners. Of all the ideas we thought about, that one seemed like the most fun to us, and there was nothing like it at Birch Bay.