Archive for December 2016

Eighteen members of the Mountaineers Club posed for a group portrait before a background of snow-capped trees in late December of 1922. The men and women were at Longmire, located in Mount Rainier National Park. 160 Mountaineers left Tacoma on December 28th for their annual midwinter climb up Mt. Rainier. They made the hike from…

Perched high above the flight deck of the U.S.S. Lexington on the 8-inch guns of the forward turrets, these young women do not appear at all nervous during their visit to the aircraft carrier in December, 1929. The Navy permited tours of the ship which was tied up at Baker Dock from mid-December 1929 to…

In this photograph from December 1944, T/4 James B. Shettlesworth of Oroville, California, a wounded soldier at Madigan General Hospital, receives a visit and a packet of gifts from Mrs. Jack Davies, chairman of the Pierce County Red Cross division of the Hospital and Recreation Service. The Pierce and Thurston County chapters of the Red…

On December 20, 1968, thirty young debutantes were introduced to society under the auspices of the Unique Social & Community Club at the Winthrop Hotel's Crystal Ballroom. The debutantes wore white evening gowns and carried bouquets of American Beauty red roses. Names of the thirty young collegians were listed in a News Tribune article dated…

An unidentified postal worker sorts the mail at the main U.S. Post Office at 1102 A Street in December of 1948. The bins are piled high with holiday mail. The Tacoma Post Office expected to increase the number of postal employees from 475 to nearly 1,000 during the busy holiday season. Typically about 200,000 letters…