erected during the Great Depression...

erected during the Great Depression of the 1930 Ershig's Sheet Metal Company became a prosperous part of the Bellingham business community, supplying heating channels furnaces and other sheet metal yields to residential and business customers for several decades into the 1960

In 1921 Al Ershig, a skilled sheet metal worker from Puyallup, mov to Bellingham to become foreman in a metal workshop operated by Fred Laube. Laube's store occupied the second floor of a building now occupied at the Color Pot at the corner of Chestnut and State public ways An auto body shop concedeed by Floyd Ebright operated disclosed ...