Highfield & Myers sign
This morning when I picked up K’s mom to take her to work I saw an abandoned real estate sign in a vacant wooded lot across the road from her house (see photo). I have been to her house hundreds of times and never noticed it before. Yet there it was. Real estate signs are apparently indestructible as she said it’s been there about 25 years. The sign brought back some memories because Blaine Highfield was one of the first people I met when I moved here in 1975.
Just before the Trident submarine base was built at Bangor, Data-Design Laboratories, the company I worked for, decided to open an office in Silverdale. I volunteered to help staff the new office and relocated here from Norfolk, Virgina, arriving in October. During the Trident boom the office grew to more than 100 people. But when there were just a few of us, thousands of miles from our East Coast homes and unsure of what to make of rainy western Washington, it was Blaine and his wife Doris who extended a warm Kitsap County welcome. He found office space for us, first in a trailer across from the old Poplars Motel and later above Mitchell Lumber. In 1977 his real estate firm, Highfield & Myers, built what was then the largest office building in Silverdale on busy Bucklin Hill Road. We were the first tenants. I should call Blaine and ask him if he wants the sign as a keepsake.
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I thought you were going to end that they were no longer in business or does that fact that he may want it as a keepsake mean that they are. Good thing you are not an endorser. You’d have to spell it out according to the latest FTC guidelines.