Archive for January 2016

On January 30, 1947 a malfunctioning switch in the Centennial Flour Mill ignited flour dust in the building, setting the massive structure located on Bayside Drive (now Schuster Parkway) on fire. The mill was totally destroyed at a loss of $2,400,000.  The fire was the first in Tacoma history with property damage that exceeded $1,000,000…

Lots of snow fell in the winter of 1936, judging by the size of this snowman! NWR Richards, http://goo.gl/yl3YEE…

January,1940--unfinished Narrows bridge from the southeast. The bridge would officially open in July of 1940 only to collapse four months later. NWR Richards, http://goo.gl/WtXJGk…

View of the Western Washington Experiment Station barns in Puyallup as seen in January, 1922. NWR Boland, http://goo.gl/FEp2yq…

In January, 1957, three Camp Fire girls stopped by the Brown & Haley Co. to pick up boxes of candy to be used to fund raise door to door all over Tacoma. It was the first time wafer-thin chocolate-covered mints were offered. NWR Richards,  http://goo.gl/OW84u3…

This shows the original cloverleaf interchange at I-5 and 512 when it was under construction in January, 1959. NWR Richards, http://goo.gl/vjPNW4…

A small snowy and icy house at Manitou Park in South Tacoma, circa 1908.  NWR Browning, http://goo.gl/mEEWfl…

This aerial photograph featuring the Columbia Breweries (center) was taken in the winter of 1949-50. Snow has blanketed the rooftops and surrounding streets. NWR Richards, http://goo.gl/NAcrNl…

This winter view of the Northern Pacific Shops in South Tacoma dates from sometime before 1910. Started in 1890 as the Edison Car Shops, the complex of buildings at 5200 So. Proctor became the Northern Pacific Shops in 1895. NWR Browning, http://goo.gl/xNMR0n…