1102-04 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR WAY, TACOMA

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Part of Tacoma-Pierce County Buildings Index

2 images. Mottau Bldg. Mrs. Robert Mottau, builder Russell & Lance, arch. Macdonald Building Co., contr. -one story cement -Carrara glass -bldg. later combined with bldg. at 1106-08 Martin Luther King Jr. Way -demolished in Aug. 2000 -plans at TPL -occupants included: Totem Food Store No.5, McMillan Drug Store, K Street Pharmacy, Paulson's Radio & Appliances, Harold Meyer Drugs SEE ALSO: 1106-08 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. WAY
TDL 7/2/1933 p.B6 $15,000 building for 11th and K
TDL 8/20/1933 p.B5 (sketch)
TNT 10/6/1933 p.13 Food department store will open (sketch)
TDL 8/19/1934 p.B9 K St. building is leased (to McMillan Drug Store)
TDL 9/9/1934 p.B9 Pharmacy in new home (interior il of the K Street Pharmacy)
TNT 4/7/1939 p.9 (il of Totem Food Store)
TNT 11/16/1939 p.22 (il of Totem Food Store) T.Times 2/1/1940 Totem stores celebrate anniversary (il)
TNT 4/30/1940 p.6 (il of Totem Food Store)
TNT 4/22/1941 p.9 Officially open today (il of Paulson's Radio & Appliances Store)
TNT 8/24/1941 p.C12 Paulson's new store (interior il)
TNT 8/13/1944 p.A4 (permit for balcony taken by Harold Meyer Drug)
TNT 9/15/1944 p.8 New store is opening (interior il of Harold Meyer Savon Drug Store)
TNT 10/22/1947 p.11,12 Something new on "K" Street; Harold Meyer's Professional Prescription Pharmacy (at 1110 So. 11th St.)
TNT 12/1/1948 p.16-19 Two fine new shops (Paulco Shoes and the Juvenile Shop take space in bldg.)
TNT 5/15/1949 p.B12 Dr. Charles Green expands practice; opens new optometric office (interior il of 1104 So. 11th St.)
TNT 7/5/1951 p.A9 (ad for appearance by Captain Hadacol)
TNT 1/29/1953 p.A11 Harold Meyer Drug opens ultra-modern pharmacy on Friday (interior il of Harold Meyer's Prescription Pharmacy at 1110 So. 11th St.)
TNT 8/17/1955 p.C1 Grand opening! (of the Music Mezzanine)
TNT 12/4/1956 p.25 Grand opening (il of employees)
TNT 9/27/1961 p.A8,A9 Meyer store plans grand reopening (two adjacent stores added, remodeling) (il)
TNT 10/12/1994 p.D1 Hilltop publisher seeks financing to develop retail center with food court, shops, office (sketch of proposed remodeling for Virginia Taylor)
TNT 8/18/1999 p.B1 Another Hilltop housing project in the works; senior apartment-retail remodel proposed for building ... T.Weekly 8/11/200 p.3 Hilltop store being converted to housing for low-income senior citizens (remodeliing project evolved into new bldg. construction and this bldg. was demolished)
Year Built: 1933
Decade Built: 1930s
Demolished: 2000
Style: modern

BU-13633

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1978

Part of Homes and Buildings Photograph Collection

BU-3659

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6/30/1993

Part of Homes and Buildings Photograph Collection

D112200-166

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1958-01-31

Part of Richards Studio Photographs

Harold Meyer Prescriptions, Rexall Drugs on So." K" St. (later known as Martin Luther King Jr. Way). The Harold Meyer drugstore offered free delivery of its prescriptions. Here a young driver is entering his Volkswagen preparing to make his deliveries. The drugstore was located in the Mottau Bldg. which later combined with the building at 1106-08 So. "K". Totem Food Store #5, McMillan Drug Store, K Street Pharmacy, Paulson's Radio & Appliances, and the forementioned Harold Meyer Prescriptions would eventually occupy the building. The Mottau Bldg. was later demolished in August, 2000. Photograph ordered by Teleradio Advertisers, Inc., for KTVW television. (TPL-4777)

Drugstores--Tacoma; Harold Meyer Prescriptions (Tacoma); Volkswagen automobile;

Mottau Building

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6/20/1933

Part of Lost Tacoma Project Collection

One of eight technical drawings for the Mottau Building, created by Gaston C. Lance and Ambrose J. Russell on June 20, 1933. Mrs. Robert Mottau was the builder of this structure, whose occupants included the Totem Food Store, K Street Pharmacy and Paulson's Radio and Appliances. The building was demolished in 2000.