Description:
Child's Shopping Cart from Tatsuda's IGA Grocery Store
Good L. Corporation
This child's shopping cart was used at Tatsuda's IGA, formerly located at 633 Stedman Street. For over 100 years, Tatsuda's was important to the community not only as a grocery store but also as a safe, friendly location to catch up with friends and neighbors.
During the early morning hours of February 27, 2020 a massive rockslide struck Tatsuda's. Dirt, rocks, and trees sloughed off the hillside onto the building, damaging the roof and upending whole aisles of products inside the store. For weeks after the incident, store employees salvaged non-perishable goods and made them available at a temporary location in the Plaza Mall at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. This cart is one of three child's carts rescued from the rubble.
During the early morning hours of February 27, 2020 a massive rockslide struck Tatsuda's. Dirt, rocks, and trees sloughed off the hillside onto the building, damaging the roof and upending whole aisles of products inside the store. For weeks after the incident, store employees salvaged non-perishable goods and made them available at a temporary location in the Plaza Mall at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. This cart is one of three child's carts rescued from the rubble.
Ketchikan Museums, KM 2020.2.34.2 A&B
Links:
Daddy's Little Shopper
Christiana Pulju pushes a child-sized shopping cart at Tatsuda's IGA in 2015. Video courtesy of Chris Pulju, KM 2021.2.30.1