14105 PURDY DR NW, GIG HARBOR

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The Peninsula School District purchased five new International Harvester buses to transport their students in July, 1954. The buses are parked outside the massive multi-storied brick building housing the Peninsula High School. A field of tall grass adjoins the parking lot. Photograph ordered by International Harvester.


School buses--Gig Harbor; Peninsula High School (Gig Harbor); Public schools--Gig Harbor; International Harvester Co. (Tacoma);

14105 PURDY DR NW, GIG HARBOR

  • 1 image. Peninsula High School Charles & Clarence Rueger, arch. Lewis Construction Co. (Seattle), contr. Carl James, supt. of construction -reinforced concrete and brick veneer -opened 9/16/1947 TNT 5/30/1946 p.6 Purdy district gets hi school TNT 7/3/1947 p.10 Peninsula gets school (il) TNT 8/31/1947 p.A3 New school to open for Peninsula students (il) TNT 8/16/1950 p.26 Bridge booms Peninsula (il) TNT 4/7/1953 p.E16 Peninsula country (il) TNT 9/20/1953 p.B2 Peninsula Hi football field has new look TNT 9/25/1955 p.C16 Peninsula schools completing another phase of expansion (il) TNT 10/16/1955 p.D10 Peninsula Hi adds wing for music (Charles Rueger & Associates, arch.) TNT 3/11/1956 p.B10 New drying room TNT 2/17/1957 One-room school yields to motorized age (il) TNT 10/16/1958 p.8 Purdy burglary being probed by detectives TNT 3/22/1960 p.14 Burglars ransack Peninsula High TNT 5/11/1960 p.B8 More land for Peninsula H.S. wins approval TNT 7/10/1960 p.B4 Peninsula schools being improved (addition by Charles Rueger & Associates, arch.) TNT 11/20/1960 p.B5 Board asks bids ... TNT 1/15/1961 p.D16 Tacoma firm low bidder on school (addition by Jardeen Brothers, contr.) TNT 10/8/1961 p.D16 Peninsula High may get CD shelter TNT 10/22/1961 p.D14 CD shelter cost talked before board TNT 1/28/1962 p.D14 State board Okey awaited for building (new industrial arts bldg.) TNT 7/12/1962 p.C4 Jardeen low on Peninsula school bid (industrial arts bldg. by Jardeen Brothers, contr.) TNT 8/23/1962 p.14 Peninsula board plans new garage (Worthen, Wing, Seifert & Forbes, arch.) (sketch) TNT 2/10/1963 p.B5 New school unit to be dedicated TNT 2/24/1963 p.B5 Building plus bleachers (il of industrial arts bldg.) TNT 3/7/1963 p.A4 Peninsula adding new sound system TNT 3/10/1963 p.B5 New school unit ready at Peninsula TNT 11/8/1964 p.A14 Board given school plan at Peninsula (Seifert, Forbes & Berry, arch.) TNT 4/8/1965 p.A8 Peninsula contracts let for school (addition by Standard Construction Co., contr.) TNT 9/19/1967 p.29 Full restitution promised in Peninsula blast (toilet exploded) TNT 2/13/1969 Peninsula to build ... (library and swimming pool by Seifert, Forbes & Berry, arch. and Puget Sound Construction Co., contr.) TNT 3/9/1969 p.B15 Site cleared for additions at Pen. High (Puget Sound Construction, contr.) TNT 4/19/1969 p.21 Cracks in Peninsula school imperil safety TNT 4/24/1969 p.B10 Board orders probe of cracks in school TNT 7/11/1969 p.A2 Peninsula High gym repair OKd TNT 8/10/1969 p.A27 Board will view school building work TNT 10/24/1969 p.A3 School safe thwarts robbers TNT 11/16/1969 p.B13 Peninsula High center to open Monday TNT 4/12/1970 p.D8 Peninsula High construction bids called (sketch of proposed group instruction bldg. by Donald Seifert, arch.) TNT 6/29/1978 Gig Harbor firm wins school job (vocational-agricultural bldg. by Hunter Construction Co., contr.) GTWY 9/18/1991 p.A6 Architects outline school build plans GTWY 8/15/2001 p.B5 Ready for game time (il of new gymnasium floor) GTWY 12/26/2001 p.A1 Friends, family remember teen (bench dedicated to Mackenzie Lightfeldt) GTWY 7/23/2003 p.A7 PHS auditorium curtain catches fire during camp GTWY 9/24/2003 p.B1 Namesake graces field for opener of football game ... first contest on new turf surface (il of Roy Anderson Field) GTWY 11/12/2003 p.B2 Field rededication held at Peninsula High School (il) GTWY 4/23/2008 p.A15 Lowe's grant helps students with "Green Courtyard" plans (il) TNT 6/3/2009 p.A1 Student's marijuana speech ends with flourish - and a trip to jail TNT 6/6/2009 p.A1 Teen (Ian Barry) accepts penalty for marijuana speech 379.797 P378K 979.778 AL72A 979.778 T546G p.113 (il)
  • Year Built: 1947
  • Decade Built: 1940s
  • Style: Modernistic