The Rise And DecUne Of The Ol^mpla Oyster 



ing refrigerating rooms and a sterilizing plant. This 

 building is still in use, being occupied by the "Olympia 

 Oyster House," where their purveying of Olympia Oys- 

 ters has become as famous as in the days of "Doane's 

 Oyster House." After the inspection of this plant by the 

 United States Department of Health, it was pronounced 

 a model oyster opening and shipping plant. In fact, these 

 officials told me while I was in Washington D. C. that the 

 oyster plants here were superior to most of those on the 

 East Coast, and that the Olympia Oyster Co. plant and 

 the J. J. Brenner Oyster Co. plant were so well equipped 

 and so clean that they looked more like a laboratory 

 than an oyster house. (See picture). 



In 1925 the United States Bureau of Fisheries recog- 

 nized this and commented as follows in Document No. 

 1066, referring to the Olympia Oyster industry in the 

 Southern part of Puget Sound: 



"The shucking houses are built according to specifica- 

 tions established by the United States Health Service, 

 and in many respects surpass these requirements. The 

 rooms where oysters are opened are sunny; the benches, 

 tables, floors and walls are of cement; in respect to clean- 

 liness and compliance to the highest standard of sanitary 

 requirements, the condition of the Olympia shucking 

 houses is unsurpassed in any other oyster producing 

 state." 



As the J. J. Brenner Oyster Co., due to changed condi- 

 tions, found it advisable to change the location of its 

 packing plant to Oyster Bay, so for the same reasons the 

 Olympia Oyster Co. constructed a plant near the head of 



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