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Comment on WHEN COAL WAS KING: Garrett Motors by Cal Bashaw: A Life Well Lived - BillBored.org
['Bill Kombol']
Comments for VOICE of the Valley
Last week’s column detailed Dwight Garrett’s early years in Black Diamond and his eventual formation of Garrett Motors, located on Stevenson Avenue in Enumclaw.
After gaining experience as a salesman for Collins Motors, in 1945 Dwight started selling GMC Trucks and later obtained a Buick dealership.
Pease, office manager; Ole Swanson, body man; Dave Garrett, shop; “Shorty” Blair, mechanic; Dean Brevik, body man; Pete Olson, shop; Archie Hill, mechanic; and Dwight Garrett, owner.
They were sometimes derisively referred to as the “codfish aristocracy.” In fact by the mid-1960s, Garrett founded a new bank named Cascade Security.
Originally located on Wells Street east of City Hall, Cascade Security Bank grew, prospered, and in time rivaled the old guard’s favored bank.
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