1117-19 PACIFIC AVE, TACOMA

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1117-19 PACIFIC AVE, TACOMA

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D22718-14

Woman and girl riding horses in parade event dressed in Spanish style flat brimmed hats with fringed banner overhead. Puget Sound National Bank can be identified in the background.

D16080-10

Grassi Brothers (Nello and Julio) Radio Program (5th). One man is at the microphone while three others look on. First two men from L-R are not known. The Grassi brothers are on the right in this September, 1943, photograph.


Radio broadcasting--Tacoma--1940-1950; Grassi, Nello; Grassi, Julio;

D16042-6

Grassi Brothers Radio Program. Band and singers on stage at the USO Club at 13th & Pacific. Everyone holds their ears while the male singer struggles for a high note. Banners hung from the microphone name KTBI. KTBI was at 1490 AM on the radio dial and broadcast from the second floor of the Puget Sound Bank Building.


Radio stations--Tacoma--1940-1950; World War, 1939-1945--Communications; USO clubs (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Grassi, Nello; Grassi, Julio; Singers;

A129709-1

An unidentified employee of the Puget Sound National Bank put the bank's new IBM 1210 Reader Sorter through its paces for (l to r) Robert G. Gordon, Vice President and Cashier, and Harold Stephens, Assistant Vice-President, on January 13, 1961. In 1959 PSNB became the first bank in the State of Washington - and the second on the west coast - to convert to the use of computers. The other banks in the northwest resisted computerization, and attempted to talk PSNB out of taking this radical step, because they felt that banking customers would not accept being numbered. (Banking on Independence; the first century of Puget Sound Bankcorp, c1990)


Puget Sound National Bank (Tacoma); Banks--Tacoma;

A91855-2

Exposure of the Tacoma Planning Commission's traffic control display in the lobby of the Puget Sound National Bank. Photograph ordered by the Condon Co. The display shows the Commission's plans for a street program that will provide for a growing Tacoma's traffic needs. The plan is the result of a long range study of Tacoma's future traffic needs completed by the City Planning Commission. Emphasis is placed on the development of a Tacoma- Everett toll road, the forerunner of a freeway system. It is predicted that in the future Tacoma will have several freeways with one way traffic, no left turns, no parking and no commercial traffic. (TNT 7/12/1955, pg. 4)


Presentation drawings; Traffic congestion--Tacoma;

D139383-1

Three employees of Puget Sound National Bank are prepared to put the bank's new IBM 1419 check-sorting machine into operation on September 30, 1963. The main office's basement was fully equipped to handle bank processing matters. Gene Amar, assistant cashier in the electronic department, Mary Lee Fanger and Eleanor Anderson (seated) look at the machine which is capable of sorting and reading 96,000 checks an hour. In 1962 Puget Sound National Bank processed some 10.4 million checks and deposits. Photograph ordered by Puget Sound National Bank. (TNT 10-6-63, B-7)


Puget Sound National Bank (Tacoma); Banks--Tacoma; Machinery; Amar, Gene; Fanger, Mary Lee; Anderson, Eleanor;

D160224-2

It was a brisk 49 degrees in April 1971 when this photograph of the National Realty Building, then Puget Sound National Bank, was taken from a building across the street. The building was sandwiched between Peoples department store and the National Bank of Washington (later home to the Tacoma Art Museum). The landmark structure, with its familiar spire, was at one time the tallest building on the West Coast, and the first built to withstand earthquakes. Puget Sound National Bank, established in 1890, would promote itself as an independent, "hometown" bank. It would merge with Key Bank in 1993. Photograph ordered by De Vac, Minneapolis, MN.


Puget Sound National Bank (Tacoma); Banks--Tacoma; Peoples (Tacoma);

NWRPC-0079 Front

  • The National Realty Building was the tallest building on the west coast when completed in 1910. circa 1912.
  • Printed on front: National Realty Bldg, Tacoma, Wash.

1117-19 PACIFIC AVE, TACOMA

  • 11 images. National Realty Bldg. Heath & Twichell, arch. Hans Pederson, contr. -completed bldg. was the tallest on the West Coast (until the Smith Tower in Seattle was completed in 1914) -first bldg. on the West Coast built to withstand earthquakes -first bldg. in Tacoma to use cantilevered beam construction -16 stories, 232 ft. -bldg. at 1115 Pacific Ave. built as annex/addition in 1912 -"largest single real estate transaction in Tacoma history" when bldg. was sold in 1917 -Puget Sound National Bank purchased bldg. in 1920 -rehab c.1983 -plans at TPL, C1, roll11 SEE ALSO: 1115 PACIFIC AVE. TDL 1/10/1909 p.9 Six-teen story office block TDN 1/30/1909 p.1 (sketch) TDL 2/21/1909 p.33 Various delays halt building TDL 3/21/1909 p.40 Work will begin about July 1 on Realty Building Pacific Builder & Eng. 3/27/1909 p.29 TDL 5/9/1909 p.43 Close deal for building lots (lots bought in 1883 for $1,700 sold for $80,000) TDL 5/23/1909 p.46 Break ground for skyscraper TDL 5/30/1909 p.36 Making soil tests TDL 6/13/1909 p.37 Surrenders his lease on store TDL 7/4/1909 p.35 Receiving bids on Realty skyscraper TDL 8/15/1909 p.37 Heavy demand for skyscraper space TDL 8/29/1909 p.36 Skyscraper of unique design TDL 9/5/1909 p.36 permits TDL 9/19/1909 p.40 New buildings rising rapidly TDL 9/26/1909 p.48 Builders race the fall rains Pacific Builder & Eng. 10/2/1909 p.394 TDL 10/3/1909 p.42 Ready to begin on Realty foundation TDL 11/14/1909 p.45 Open bids for power plants TDL 11/21/1909 p.44 Tacoma to have the cantalever TDL 2/27/1910 p.37 Weather keeps building back TDL 3/20/1910 p.40,43 Lost girder found ... TDL 4/24/1910 p.42 (il under construction) TDL 5/22/1910 p.39 (il under construction) TDL 6/29/1910 p.38 (il) TDL 9/4/1910 p.36 Pacific Coast tallest ... (il) TDN 12/14/1910 (il) TDL 1/1/1911 p.29 (il from rear of bldg.) TDN 7/4/1911 p.15 (full page ad) (il) TDL 3/3/1912 p.31 One of the finest cafes on Coast to be installed In National Realty basement (proposed) T.Times 4/18/1912 Catch turnip from top of Realty Bldg. T.Times 4/19/1912 Can Zanetta catch turnip from top of Realty Building? (il) T.Times 4/22/1912 ... Gee! What a crowd TDL 5/26/1912 p.36 (ad) TDL 7/28/1912 p.35 (interior il) TDL 9/15/1912 p.28 (il of site before bldg. and sketch of proposed expansion) T.Times 12/7/1912 p.8 How long does it take to eat loaf of bread as big as Realty Building? (sketch) TDL 6/1/1913 p.1,19 Begin $600,000 hotel in fall (proposed Winthrop Hotel) TDL 7/6/1913 p.19 Newest features in Winthrop Hotel (proposed doubling of building) p.35 Pig pen on roof TDL 9/14/1913 p.21 Winthrop will be up in year (proposed) TDL 11/16/1913 p.1 Work begins on hotel March 1 (proposed) TDL 2/1/1914 p.19 Erection of hotel is assured (proposed Windsor Hotel addition) TDL 6/13/1915 p.28 Tacoma architect has roof garden TDL 7/1/1915 p.1 Falls 13 stories down elevator shaft to death T.Tribune 10/15/1916 p.1 Forty trapped in police raid on "exclusive" downtown club; office suite is rich barroom (prominent business leaders busted in Prohibition raid on a "club" called the "Electric Logging Co." in rooms 1602-07) TNL 10/15/1916 p.1 Raid in skyscraper brings panic TNL 8/5/1917 p.1 Skyscraper sold to syndicate of East Side men ("largest single real estate transaction in Tacoma history") TDL 9/1/1918 p.B4 New ticket office here is remodeled (U.S. Railroad Administration Consolidated Ticket Office at 1119 Pacific Ave.) TDL 9/15/1918 p.A6 (il of "human fly" climbing up bldg.) TDL 10/19/1919 p.B5 Renovating large Avenue skyscraper Senior Scene Mar. 2000 p.8 Tacoma's sketchy past (sketch); Apr. 2000 p.2 More on Tacoma's sketchy past 071 F779F 12/20/1913 p.12 Spirit of progress in Tacoma (sketch) 338.973 P83Pt 1918 p.68 (il); 1919 p.37 (sketch) 917.972 Op& p.2 (il) 979.778 H628H Vol.I p.439 979.7788 ST769H p.29 ----- Puget Sound Bank Building TDL 9/12/1920 p.1 Tacoma bankers buy National Realty Building (bldg. purchased by Puget Sound National Bank for $551,000) (sketch) TDL 12/19/1920 p.A24 (bldg. directory) TDL 3/20/1921 p.B5 Bank will have larger quarters (remodeling by O.F. Larson, contr.) TDL 8/21/1921 p.B5 Announces change to new quarters (C.V. Munsey Gymnasium moves from ninth floor to fourth floor) TNT 12/26/1922 Do you remember? (il of excavation c.1909) TNT 5/2/1922 p.11 Do you remember? (il of excavation taken 9/25/1909) TNT 4/28/1925 p.9 Pacific Avenue, as steeplejack sees it (il) TDL 6/19/1928 p.1 Coroner to probe accident; inquest in elevator death ... TDL 6/7/1936 p.B7 Improve building exterior ("average of 5,000 persons visit the structure daily") TNT 6/5/1938 p.A13 (remodeling by Ketner Bros., contr.) TNT 1/24/1941 p.1 Voracious gulls call regularly at office building window for lunch TNT 8/30/1941 p.1 KTBI opens Saturday (new radio studio on second floor) TNT 12/20/1941 p.12 Bank will remodel TNT 9/30/1942 p.10 Modern quarters for Tacoma bank (interior remodeled, first three floors refaced with ruby red granite) (interior il) T.Times 9/30/1942 Puget Sound Bank completes big remodeling project (interior il) TNT 5/27/1943 p.21 Insurance firm in Puget Sound Bank Building (Hansen & Rowland, Inc.) TNT 6/13/1943 p.A10,B1 Offices occupy whole floor (Hansen & Rowland, Inc. Insurance leases the 13th floor) (interior il) TNT 12/12/1944 p.1 Gets $1,000 in bank holdup TNT 12/13/1944 p.1 17 yr. old confesses crime TNT 6/17/1947 p.1 Look pretty now (il of two owlets born in the tower) TNT 12/23/1948 p.1 Holdup of P.S. Bank fizzles TNT 3/2/1952 p.A16 Air raid shelters ... TNT 6/12/1953 p.B8 A new symbol of Puget Sound service (sketch of new time and temperature sign) TNT 10/24/1954 p.C18 Scaffold up, balcony down (16th floor concrete balcony to be removed) (il) TNT 11/11/1960 p.36 (permit taken to remodel rear entrance) TNT 5/10/1963 p.C14 Four more buildings CD shelters TNT 12/8/1963 p.C16 (permit taken to remodel sixth floor) TNT 9/20/1964 p.B8 Bank adds to Tacoma facelifting (remodeling by Lea, Pearson & Richards, arch. and Merit Co., contr.) (sketch) TNT 9/27/1964 p.C18 Unusual wood (il of Brazilian Rosewood, to be installed in the board room of Puget Sound National Bank) TNT 2/7/1965 p.C17 Huge piece of equipment moved here (air conditioning unit moved to the 5th floor) TNT 2/15/1965 p.7 Raising the temperature (il) TNT 5/27/1966 p.16 Bank steeple to be saved TNT 10/9/1966 p.A18 (permit to remodel 10th floor taken by Busch & Webb) TNT 10/21/1966 p.A4 Burglar escapes by fire escape TNT 11/12/1966 p.16 24-hour flag raised atop bank's tower (il) TNT 3/5/1967 p.B16 (permit taken to remodel the 5th through 16th floors) 720.28 T119TR p.56 (rehab c.1983 by Martin Construction Co., contr.) ----- Key Bank of Washington / Key Tower TNT 2/23/1996 p.B1 Falcon welcome mat (mention) TNT 5/7/1998 p.B3 Peregrine pair may make home in Tacoma TNT 9/23/1999 p.D6 KeyBank to sell office building as part of consolidation effort TNT 2/10/2000 p.D1 High-tech start-ups eyed for Key Tower 917.9778 M177T p.184 (il) ----- Heritage Bank Plaza TNT 1/6/2001 p.D1 Heritage Bank finds a more visible home TNT 12/27/2021 p.3A Residential units and more planned for former Key Tower (ext il) TNT 12/25/2022 p.2A Two market-rate apartment projects gain tax breaks in Tacoma (ext il) Puget Sound Business Journal 2/17/2023 p.16 Tacoma landlords are turning offices into apartments
  • Year Built: 1910
  • Decade Built: 1910s

A12308-5

ca. 1941. Row of teller windows and safe deposit boxes inside lobby of Puget Sound National Bank, 1117-19 Pacific Ave., circa 1941.


Puget Sound National Bank (Tacoma); Banks--Tacoma;

D75496-19

Erection of new sign. An overhead shot of the new Puget Sound Bank Building sign being erected was taken on June 10, 1953. The bank building was a narrow skyscraper and the exterior sign chosen was also narrow in width. It would be placed between the annex and the main building on Pacific Avenue. A Sunnen Crane is in the process of completing the hoisting. The sign was designed in Spokane by the American Sign Products Co. and delivered to Tacoma via flatbed truck. Photograph ordered by Dutton Hayward, Puget Sound National Bank.


Progress photographs--1950-1960; Electric signs--Tacoma--1950-1960; Puget Sound National Bank (Tacoma); Sunnen Auto Freight & Heavy Hauling Co. (Tacoma); Hoisting machinery; American Sign Products Co. (Spokane);

D75496-7

Erection of new sign. Part of the tall vertical Puget Sound National Bank sign has already been erected by a Sunnen Crane prior to the bank's opening hours on June 10, 1953. The main offices of the bank were located on Pacific Avenue. Until the Smith Tower was constructed in Seattle in 1914, the Puget Sound National Bank building was the tallest west of the Missouri River. The bank sign, designed by American Sign Products Co. of Spokane, would be placed between the bank annex and the main building. Photograph ordered by Dutton Hayward, Puget Sound National Bank.


Progress photographs--1950-1960; Electric signs--Tacoma--1950-1960; Puget Sound National Bank (Tacoma); Sunnen Auto Freight & Heavy Hauling Co. (Tacoma); Hoisting machinery; American Sign Products Co. (Spokane);

A116589-1

When erected in 1910, Puget Sound National Bank's main branch was the tallest building west of the Missouri River. Later buildings were constructed to rival the bank's height but it remained a focal point on Pacific Avenue. It dwarfed its neighbors, Peoples store and the National Bank of Washington. A large plaque on the side of the building indicates that the bank was established in 1890. Puget Sound Bank was the first to use a T & T sign, clearly visible, which gave the time and temperature to passersby. A "hometown bank," Puget Sound National Bank was absorbed by Key Bank in the early 1990's. Photograph ordered by the Condon Co. TPL-6569


Puget Sound National Bank (Tacoma); Banks--Tacoma;

D103464-1

Reno Odlin stands under the 96 foot tall Puget Sound National Bank electric sign which displayed both the temperature and time in this photograph from December 5, 1956. Erected in June, 1953, the double "T" sign was one of the first in the country. Reno Odlin was the long-time president and chief executive officer of the bank. He successfully led Puget Sound National Bank for several decades, positioning it as the "hometown bank" and increasing branches to 33. He retired in 1974, leaving the bank to be led by former son-in-law, Bill Philip, and passed away in 1979. (Provorse: Banking on Independence, p. 130)


Odlin, Reno, 1897-1979; Bankers--Tacoma; Puget Sound National Bank (Tacoma); Electric signs--Tacoma--1950-1960; Clocks & watches;

D131289-8

Informal portrait of Puget Sound National Bank president Reno Odlin. He led the Tacoma-based bank for 26 years, seeing deposits grow almost 50% between 1950 & 1960, and rewarding shareholders with cash plus stock dividends. He accomplished this growth internally, without buying or merging other banks. In 1964, Puget Sound National Bank was officially designated the largest bank in Tacoma with deposits exceeding $121 million. Mr. Odlin was also for many years president of the Washington State Historical Society. (Provorse: Banking on Independence)


Odlin, Reno, 1897-1979; Bankers--Tacoma; Banking--Tacoma--1960-1970;

D161485-6C

Group portrait of the Board of Directors, Tacoma Better Business Bureau, Inc. Local business, civic and military leaders gathered on the second floor of Puget Sound National Bank's main branch on February 24, 1972. Color photograph ordered by the Tacoma Better Business Bureau, Inc.


Tacoma Better Business Bureau, Inc. (Tacoma);

D138251-2

Umbrella display. Puget Sound National Bank vice-presidents Arvie Harris and Vince Carlstrom pose with the bank's umbrella display on April 29, 1963. The accompanying sign states that people could borrow umbrellas when needed on rainy days and return them when the weather became sunny. Customer Ann Ball smiles at the bank officials while trying out a borrowed umbrella. The new free loan service of 36 umbrellas was located at the Main branch's entrance on Pacific Ave. (TNT 5-2-63, A-23)


Umbrellas; Puget Sound National Bank (Tacoma); Signs (Notices); Harris, Arvie; Carlstrom, Vincent A.; Ball, Ann;

BOLAND-B15134

This damaged print is of the Puget Sound National Bank Building (1117-19 Pacific Avenue-formerly the National Realty Bldg.) taken from the 12th St. viewpoint on June 25, 1926. On its right at the corner is the National Bank of Tacoma. Looking northbound, buildings right to left are: the barely visible one-story structure at 1115 Pacific Avenue which had been built as an annex/addition to the National Realty Bldg., then the Bankers Trust building at 1109-13 Pacific, Peoples department store (1101-07 Pacific) with the 17-story Washington Building skyscraper at the far left (1019 Pacific). Flags and bunting decorate both Peoples and the Puget Sound National Bank Bldg. G61.1-043


Commercial streets--Tacoma--1920-1930; Business districts--Tacoma--1920-1930; Puget Sound National Bank (Tacoma); National Bank of Tacoma (Tacoma); Banks--Tacoma; Peoples (Tacoma); Washington Building (Tacoma); Office buildings--Tacoma--1920-1930;

A12308-2

ca. 1941. Teller windows and Christmas tree in lobby of Puget Sound National Bank for the Christmas season circa 1941. Square columns, open beam ceiling, and what appears to be either granite or marble embellishments.


Banks--Tacoma; Puget Sound National Bank (Tacoma);

A12308-3

Puget Sound National Bank, vault with open door.


Business Enterprises - Financial Institutions - Banks - Tacoma - Puget Sound National Bank

A10984-1

ca. 1941. Detail view of Puget Sound National Bank (National Realty Company) building showing elaborate doorway featuring carved figures. Heath and Twichell, Architects, 1910.


Commercial facilities--Tacoma--1940-1950; Business districts--Tacoma--1940-1950; Puget Sound National Bank (Tacoma); Banks--Tacoma;

D16120-8

ca. 1943. Grassi Brothers radio show (6th). Eleven men and two women posed in a tight group circa 1943. The Grassi brothers (Nello and Julio) are the third and sixth men from the left standing. One of the men standing is wearing a police uniform. The Grassi's operated a used car dealership in Tacoma.


Radio stations--Tacoma--1940-1950; World War, 1939-1945--Communications; Radio broadcasting--Tacoma--1940-1950; Grassi, Nello; Grassi, Julio;

D75496-2

Erection new sign. The Sunnen Crane Service was in the process of installing a large new sign on the Puget Sound National Bank Building in the early morning hours of June 10, 1953. The tall vertical sign would be in addition to large signs on the side and front of the building. The American Sign Products Co. of Spokane constructed the sign. Photograph ordered by Dutton Hayward, Puget Sound National Bank.


Progress photographs--1950-1960; Electric signs--Tacoma--1950-1960; Signs (Notices); Puget Sound National Bank (Tacoma); Sunnen Auto Freight & Heavy Hauling Co. (Tacoma); Hoisting machinery; American Sign Products Co. (Spokane);

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