Food Fun at Storytime

On Saturday, September 29th around 60 parents and kids got down and dirty with food at a special Sensory Storytime at Wheelock Branch. Children's Librarian Elizabeth Covington created several interactive stations around the room for kids to explore including; stringing cereal necklaces, painting with apples and broccoli, playing with waterbeads and more. Families had a…
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Ascending and Descending

An unidentified man is pictured on October 24 1952, on the grand central staircase at the new Tacoma Public Library, 1102 Tacoma Avenue South. The feeling of spaciousness was accentuated by the use of bowed stainless steel balustrades and fine grained birch handrails. The staircase would be altered in future library remodeling, removing the pictured…
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Time Before HDTV

Mrs. Bernice Rupp (now Mrs. Bernice Rupp Johnson) points out one of several new Motorola television sets being sold in October of 1956 at Paulson's Appliances, located at the corner of South 11th & "K" (now Martin Luther King Jr. Way). The store was owned by Cliff Paulson. They sold radios, furniture, and appliances including…
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Can You Hear Me Now?

Judy Maida tests a phone line while securely strapped to a telephone pole by her lineman's belt in October of 1974. Ms. Maida was employed by Pacific Northwest Bell. By the 1970s, telephone companies were using women as linemen. Women were given the opportunity to move out of the business office to good paying outdoor…
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