By SUSAN PARK

Last summer right before the great Lake City fire, a new tenant moved into the old Northwest Winds storefront at 12335 Lake City Way. Although the location is new, the store is an antique.

Rossman's Industrial Supply has been around since 1933 when owner Bob Rossman's grandfather opened his store at 2500 Western Avenue in Belltown.

Last year, Rossman moved to Lake City and formerly changed its name to Rossman Paint Supply. Although the store still sells a complete array of paints and air brushes, they no longer carry hardware. Three generations of leftover stock including moistening guns from 1949, pulleys, wooden rawls, copper tips for acetylene torches, cotter pins, old helmet goggle filters, and hook finishing scraper blades are displayed on a clearance table.

The store now caters to Sunday painters - both the honey-do kind and the Rembrandts; as well as show rooms, window artists, and local theaters. They also carry complete lines of house paint.

Rossman says the decision to sell his Belltown location in favor of renting in Lake City was made after their customers began to have a hard time getting into their store without being harassed by vagrants. Their store was the constant victim of vandalism. Filth littered the sidewalks.

All that behind him, Rossman says he likes the one story shops of Lake City and feels very at home here. "The neighbors are great."

Rossman and his wife are both locals. Bob Rossman grew up in Lake City and graduated from Ingraham High School in 1965. Barbara Swanson Rossman graduated from Nathan Hale in 1967. The couple live in Shoreline and say they enjoy the shorter commute.