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, in Mount Rainier National Park, even then a popular tourist destination. 160 Mountaineers left Tacoma on December 28th for their annual midwinter climb up Mt. Rainier…
Stockings Will Be Hung by the Chimney with Care
Little Harriet Sue Deering, in pajamas, hanging a Christmas stocking on the fireplace. She is concerned that Santa will forget her 11 day old baby brother William Seymour, so she has thoughtfully hung a stocking for him. See more featured images and posts…
U.S.S. Lexington
January 1930 would have started off as a very dark year in Tacoma without the assistance of the U.S.S. Lexington, pictured here encircled by mist at Baker Dock. She arrived in Tacoma about December 17, 1929, and remained to mid-January, 1930, to provide electricity to the City of Tacoma. A severe drought in 1929 had…
A Toast to the Host for the Best Roast
Basting an enormous roast in the kitchens of the Tacoma Vocational-Technical Institute in December of 1967 are (from l to r) Herman Walker of Hilltop, George Johnson, Mrs. Alice Dunn of Eastside and Carl Munsen of the Tri-Mart Multi-Service Center, four of the directors of the Tacoma-Pierce County Opportunity & Development, Inc. They are practicing…
The Kitchen of Your Dreams
Color photograph of a section of kitchen emphasizing the fine cabinetry and screened wine rack. Also included was a built-in double oven and unusual curved pantry. This was an exhibit located at the Village Shopping Center in Lacey in December of 1973. See more featured images and posts…
Local author Inara Verzemnicks wows us at Kobetich
Kobetich Branch of Tacoma Public Library would like to thank author Inara Verzemnieks for her visit on Saturday, November 4, 2017. While she teaches creative nonfiction at the University of Iowa, she wanted to share her story with the library and community in which she grew up. What a privilege it was to have her…
Show of Chrome
December was the month to showcase the upcoming year's new automobile models. Here the 1951 Chevrolets, including the Bel Air, are gleaming under the overhead lights of South Tacoma Motor Company at 5602 South Tacoma Way. Both South Tacoma Motor Co. and Walker Chevrolet would open their showrooms at night during part of December to…
Prized Poultry
On December 3, 1926, a quartet of salesgirls from the Rhodes Brothers department store departed from their usual duties to pose with four of the prize winning chickens from the 29th Annual Tacoma Poultry Show. The girls are, left to right, Isabel Kearns with a Rhode Island Red Cockerel, Irene (Iva) Ratcliffe with a Buff…
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