Archive for October 2016

The Tacoma Golf and Country Club's annual Costume Ball was held on October 31, 1934. Dressed in a period-inspired costume, Miss Ohlson was declared the winner of the costume contest. She is pictured here posing next to her prize, a live turkey. Happy Halloween!  goo.gl/pWPzT0…

At a time when timber was king, and logs of this size were not unusual, thirteen delegates to the 13th annual Pacific Logging Congress Convention were able to balance themselves on top of large cut logs in this late October 1922 photograph - with room to spare. A special excursion train left Tacoma's Union Station…

"Eating crow" was never so true as in this October 20, 1965 studio set-up when a diner wearing a colorful bib appears to be ready to chow down on a very dead black crow. His pained look is due to the fact that the Minnesota Twins were proclaimed the 1965 American League champions, a fact…

Ruins loom where the once majestic Tacoma Hotel stood after an October 17, 1935 fire ripped through the building leaving only charred remains. The modified Tudor structure built by the architectural firm headed up by Stanford White was a Tacoma landmark since its construction in 1884. Northwestern Dock Co. can be see through the gaping…

Tacoma firefighter Ray Hammond prepares to fill a rubber raft containing a model of the second Narrows Bridge in this photo taken at Fire Station #10 at S. 74th and Park Avenue. The model of the bridge was built by members of the Tacoma Fire Department for the benefit of the Tacoma and District annual flower…

Did you know that in addition to the more than 35,000 images available online through the Tacoma Public Library’s Image Archive, the library’s Northwest Room collection contains thousands more photos, many of which haven’t been digitized? How can you access them? Visit the Northwest Room and browse the more than 200 binders with pages and…

The Tacoma Mall Thriftway supermarket had its grand opening on October 13,1965. The store was decorated throughout with wooden panels and murals that, through color and design, imitated Pacific Northwest Indian art motifs without reproducing actual design elements from any particular tribe. In the Bakery Department, shelves offered a variety of freshly baked goods and…

Frank Temple, sitting on a large pumpkin, appears to approve of Joann Glenn's selection of a nicely shaped, small pumpkin. Frank, Joann and "Charlie Brown" were photographed in Mr. and Mrs. Eberhard Kaelin's pumpkin patch at Valley Avenue and 54th Avenue East in Fife in October, 1968. Charlie Brown seems to be commenting on the…

The entire front of the Community Theater at 5441 South "M" St. was heavily damaged by explosives in the early morning hours of Sunday, October 5, 1930. 3-5 sticks of dynamite were shoved through the bars of the ticket office window. Parts of the ticket booth were blown across the street, and door castings, drapes…