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Sven's is not Sporthaus. Two different businesses. Sporthaus is a small chain store. There's even one here in the Dry-Shitties on Columbia Center Boulevard. Sven's was last located on W Lincoln Avenue, in a tiny shopping area between Custer and Oregon Streets, IIRC. Googling for Sven's in Yakima just now did not turn up any hits, so mebbe Sven's has also finally succombed to the Curse of Crackima Climbing Shops...??
I used to work for an engineering company located in the Sunfair Building, directly across the street from the 3rd Street PO. I left that company in 2007, and there wasn't anything in the space between the PO and the bar on the corner that I recall then. I assume you're talking about those storefronts between the PO and The Speakeasy sports bar on the corner of Chestnut Ave? We would drink there after work when we wanted to bitch about the BS that was going on at work. Now that I think about it, we used to drink there an awful lot...