The Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine were joining many other Northwest Temple Shriners for a Shrine parade in Tacoma. Groups from Tacoma, Seattle, Spokane, Portland and many others were going to participate in the Northwest Temples March, where they would lead camels through the parade. The Afifi Temple would host the…
Northwest Room Scavenger Hunt
Northwest Room Scavenger Hunt
Remember scavenger hunts? Yes, that time-honored staple of elementary school assignments, and the establishing premise of 1936’s
Welcome To The Winthrop
An unidentified man and Ruth McDowell, "Miss Winthrop," posed with a large key on May 26, 1925. Miss Winthrop, also known as the "Girl of the Mountain," was on hand to greet guests during the weeks following the hotel's Grand Opening on May 16, 1925. She was attired in a scarlet "mountain costume" and welcomed…
Grand Gardens
Mrs. C. H. Ingram (Aida) was one of five hostesses who opened their gardens to the public to benefit the women's guild at St. Mary's Episcopal Church. All five families who displayed their gardens lived on Gravelly Lake Drive in Lakewood: Corydon Wagner, Jr., W. W. Keyes, Byron Scott, L. T. Murray and the Ingrams…
Shipshape Ships
N.C. Garrison sat on a ladder as he helped prepare the display of 30 of his model ships in the lobby at the National Bank of Washington, 1123 Pacific Ave., for World Trade Week in May of 1950. Mr. Garrison had been building ship models since 1929 and this was the first complete display of…
Operator – Information!
Genevieve Brophy (left) and Anna Fuchs, employees of the main central office of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co., sit at the new Hotel Winthrop switchboard surrounded by 300 desk telephones. After the telephones and switchboard were installed, Hotel Winthrop became the first Tacoma hotel to have a telephone in every room. The switchboard was…
No, YOU Stick’em Up!
On Thursday morning May 9, 1940 at 5 minutes after 9 a.m., 21 year old bookkeeper Emma Olsen foiled a daring attempt to rob the State Bank of Orting. This is a recreation of the event, with a reporter standing in for robbery suspect Kenneth Elliot Ambler. The marks on the window show where the…
Mother’s Day Moment
In preparation for Mother's Day in May of 1938, Louise Hunter arranges lilacs in a vase with the help of her young son, Dana Joseph Hunter. Her husband, Charles D. Hunter, Jr., was an attorney with the Tacoma law firm of Eisenhower & Carlson, and was a law partner with Edgar Eisenhower, the brother of…
Like Father And Son
The newest in automotive beauty and power was posed with the old in this photograph taken in front of the Mueller-Harkins Buick dealership at 455 Saint Helens Avenue on May 4, 1950. The car on the left is a 1950 Buick Eight sporting a "bumper guard grill"; the car to the right is a Model…
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