Fight promoter Ethel Seifert sponsored the Semi-Final All-Heavy Wrestling Show at the Starlight Athletic Club at S 11th Street and Market St. in 1948. Tacoma Times newspaper carriers were invited as guests of Ethel Seifert. Left to right view of Rocco Toma, known as the wild bull of the Argentine Pampas, Nick Zvolis, the referee…
Creepy For Christmas…
This group of elaborately costumed Tacomans took part in the annual Toyland Parade on the morning of November 27, 1936 through the streets of downtown Tacoma. The first float in the parade carried Santa Claus in a giant sled pulled by 2 white reindeer. The Toyland Parade was the official opening for the Christmas shopping…
Why Are Clowns Creepy?
The 1936 Toyland Parade kicked off the day after Thanksgiving in a dense fog. The parade celebrated the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. It was made up of 10 elaborate Mother Goose floats, three marching bands and 75 costumed characters, such as these clowns. See more featured images and posts…
Donald Barrows Got To Keep His Job
Donald Barrows - popular Lincoln H. S. music teacher allowed to keep job. He is congratulated above by his happy supporters. Students and parents were upset that Mr. Barrows, a recent hire in the music department, was probably going to lose his job. An arbitrator in November of 1976 ruled that the school district had…
Memories of Sears
Exterior of Sears store at the corner of South 13th Street and Broadway as pictured on November 15, 1950. The Coliseum Bowling Alley is seen up the hill along South 13th Street and the Savon Rexall Drug store is across Broadway. See more featured images and posts…
One Man Band
Halfdan O. Stromsnes, a master of 14 trades, plays his one-man band. His "depression band" includes a 5 gallon oil can drum, a guitar made from a grease can and a Ford fender, 5 harmonicas mounted on a coffee can, and cymbals. See more featured images and posts…
He’s a Poet And Now You Know It
81-year-old Gig Harbor resident Milan Mikich was tending a garden of native wildflowers and shrubs behind Scandia Gaard when News Tribune columnist Emily Walker first met him in August of 1970. The slender, gray-haired native of Vojvodina, Yugoslavia had emigrated to the United States when he was 15 years old in 1904. He enjoyed singing…
Ship Twins
Ships under construction in November of 1975 at what is believed to be the J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corp.'s yard adjoining the City (now Thea Foss) Waterway. This aerial view also shows the new Familian-Northwest, Inc., plumbing supply building on 15th St. E. See more featured images and posts…
The Art of Upside Down Writing
Harry Kahne dazzled crowds gathered about the Broadway Theater as he hung by his heels suspended from the theater's roof on November 1, 1930. They watched with astonishment as Mr. Kahne wrote upside the latest news in legible cursive script on the large Ledger blackboard several feet above ground. Mr. Kahne was in town for…
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