The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 646

ALVIN H. WINEMAN.

Modern commercial enterprise finds a worthy representative in Alvin H. Wineman
of the firm of Wineman Brothers, owning and conducting at Yakima the largest
shoe store between Seattle and Spokane. He was born in Chicago, Illinois,
February 19, 1882, a son of Samuel S. and Jennie Wineman, the father a clothing
manufacturer who in 1889 removed to California, where he established and
conducted a successful business that was ultimately taken over by his sons.

Alvin H. Wineman was but seven years of age at the time the family home was
established on the Pacific coast. He acquired his education there in the schools
of Oxnard and he received his business training under his father's direction.
When his textbooks were put aside he entered the store, which in 1889 had been
established by his father. He became associated with his brother, M, J. Wineman,
in the conduct of this enterprise and the Oxnard store is still carried on by
the brother. In 1909 they established business in Yakima, but in 1913 M. J.
Wineman returned to California upon the death of their brother, Samuel S., and
assumed the management of the Oxnard store, which is one of the leading
commercial establishments of that city, employing seventeen people. The Yakima
store was purchased from W. B. Dudley, who had established it as the pioneer
shoe store in the valley, and its first location was at 206 East Yakima avenue.
They removed to the corner of Third street and Yakima avenue in September, 1917,
remodeling the corner store, which is twenty-five by one hundred and forty feet.
They carry the leading stock of shoes in the city and in fact have the largest
retail shoe house between Seattle and Spokane, employing seven people. The
business has increased one hundred per cent between 1913 and 1917. They began
with three clerks and now have more than double that number. Their store is
thoroughly modern in its appointment and equipment and they have a fine
second-story stock room. They carry in stock more than ten thousand pairs of
shoes all of the time, including shoes for men, women and children, handling the
Stetson, Hanan, Florsheim and other fine lines of footwear. Their progressive
business methods, their earnest desire to please their patrons, their reasonable
prices and straightforward dealing, combined with the uniform courtesy ever
extended patrons, have been the salient features in the upbuilding of their
constantly growing trade.

Mr. Wineman belongs to Yakima Lodge, No. 24, F. & A. AL; Yakima Chapter, R. A.
M.: Yakima Consistory, S. P. R. S.; and to the Mystic Shrine. He is also
connected with the Elks lodge and his membership relations extend to the
Commercial Club, of which he served as director for several term's, to the
Yakima Valley Business Men's Association, of which he has also been director,
and to the Country Club. He is preeminently a merchant and one who possesses in
large measure that quality which for want of a better term has been called
commercial sense. He is the principal stockholder of the Storaasli Company, of
which he is the secretary and treasurer, handling general lines of men's
furnishing and outfitting goods. This connection and his shoe business rank him
with the most prominent, progressive and enterprising merchants of Yakima. He
looks ahead, studies modern conditions, formulates his plans wisely and well
and is ready for any emergency. There are no spectacular phases in his career
and he is the last to claim any unusual qualifications, but he has those
admirable characteristics which make the typical, reliable and progressive
business man.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.