THIS TINY TOWN IS FADING FAST THE FUTURE OF WASHINGTON'S SMALLEST TOWN IS BLEAK, BUT THE RESIDENTS OF KRUPP REFUSE TO GIVE UP `AS SOON AS THE RESERVE FUND IS GONE, WE AIN'T GOT A TOWN.'.(News)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | Date: July 27, 2000| Author: Modie, Neil | Copyright information

A stroll through the business district of Washington's smallest town is a walking tour of ghosts and ashes.

``Dad worked there, at the Ruff Garage, but it burned down,'' said Loren Totusek, 63. He was pointing to a weedy vacant lot - a basketball hoop incongruously standing at one end - on Urquhart Avenue, the tree-lined main street of Krupp.

Totusek, a farmer and lifelong area resident, took a visitor past the tiny post office, originally a dance hall and lat...

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