Paul Seabert, owner of Olympia’s Wind Up Here toy store, has died at 83
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Downtown Olympia business owner Paul Seabert, who owned Wind Up Here toy store, has died, the Olympia Downtown Alliance announced this week in its newsletter. He was 83.
“He was a long-time member of our organization,” the newsletter reads. “He served multiple terms as our president, as well as on committees and leading downtown cleanups. Our organization honored Paul with the organization’s first Downtown Person of the Year.”
Seabert died at home Oct. 14, the result of lung cancer, according to his online obituary.
Before becoming a small business owner, he worked in education and was the 1982-83 Washington state Counselor of the Year, according to the obituary. He worked at Timberline High School before retiring after more than 30 years in public education.
He later made trophies and plaques at Seabert’s Custom Awards in Aberdeen and then co-founded and owned the Olympia toy store Wind Up Here at Washington Street and Fifth Avenue, according to the obituary.
“He firmly believed in ‘shopping local,’” the obituary reads.
Wind Up Here was later sold and finally closed in March 2014. It was replaced by the current toy store called Captain Little.
A memorial service is set for 2 p.m. Nov. 5 at St. Benedict’s Church in Lacey.
This story was originally published October 27, 2022 at 5:15 AM.
