dry goods

For much of his working life, Raju has been on Interstate 5, hauling dry goods from California to Oregon and Washington state.

The second building next door was a dry goods shop.

Several decades ago, as big-box retailers moved into San Joaquin Valley towns, Main Street shoe shops and dry goods stores struggled to survive.

Tracing the history of the Lehman Brothers financial services firm from its humble beginnings as a dry goods company in Alabama in 1850 to its eventual collapse that triggered the 2008 financial crisis, “The Lehman Trilogy” is an undeniable feat of narrative construction.

“In my mind, a pantry is for storing dry goods’” says Susan Wittenbrink, a kitchen designer for Woodinville-based Keystone Kitchens.