The New Yorker / New Yorker Cafe Ted Clark & Mike De Voto, builder -brown brick -Blue Room, Coney Island Room, Manhattan Room, Staten Room, Long Island Coffee Shop -capacity of 750 diners -preview opening 10/21/1946 -formal opening 10/27/1946 TNT 10/22/1946 p.9 Preview ... of city's newest cafe (il) TNT 10/26/1946 p.26 (full page ad) (il,interior il) TNT 3/7/1947 p.6 ... win a dinner "on the house" (sketch) TNT 1/2/1948 p.1 Yeggs get $3,500 in New Yorker robbery (il of safe) TNT 1/3/1948 p.1 Police shot cracksman suspect ... TNT 1/5/1948 p.1 More cash found in cafe case TNT 1/25/1948 p.B10 (ad,sketch) TNT 5/25/1949 p.1 Gunman robs New Yorker Cafe TNT 10/31/1949 p.1 New Yorker robbed TNT 12/10/1949 p.1 Cafe loses to bandit 4th time TNT 12/11/1949 p.A1 Publicity lack irks "Tape-Face" TNT 7/23/1950 p.A1 Bandit ("Tape-Face") robs New Yorker TNT 11/8/1951 p.D2 New Yorker unveils unique new cafe TNT 11/15/1951 p.C10,C11 "New" New Yorker's official grand opening (interior il) TNT 3/31/1954 p.6 Senator Kennedy plans to address Tacoma Demos (John F. Kennedy) TNT 4/3/1954 p.1 Sen. Kennedy sees his party winning in '54 (il of Kennedy) TNT 10/12/1954 p.17,18 (ad,sketch) TNT 1/12/1955 p.10 (ad for appearance by entertainer Stan Boreson) TNT 11/21/1955 p.A11 (ad) (interior il of the Staten Room) TNT 10/26/1956 p.16 Art Mineo's new organized band! TNT 12/25/1956 p.37 New Year's Eve (ad,sketch) TNT 11/12/1968 p.1 Woman sues for right to sit at bar TNT 11/13/1968 p.A14 She wants the right to sit at cocktail bar as men do TNT 12/22/1996 p.A1 Boom town Tacoma 784.54 V567H p.33 (club used for an early recording session by the rock group the Ventures) ----- Backstage Restaurant / Falstaf Dinner Theater -"Finest of All Liquor, Shows, Theater and Food" -"Prop Room" cocktail lounge TNT 8/27/1978 New dinner theater set to open TNT 10/4/1978 Dinner theater due (remodeling for theater by Bernie Rhoades, arch.) TNT 10/27/1978 New Falstaf Theater opening found uneven TNT 1/18/1979 p.A8 Backstage life puts him in forefront ----- Jarvie Memorial Family Lodge, Salvation Army -named in honor of long-time Salvation Army leaders Alvin & Faylene Jarvie TNT 9/30/1999 p.B2 Ceremony to note name change to Jarvie Memorial Family Lodge TNT 7/12/2008 p.B1 Service gives needy a CleanStart (il of Tide CleanStart Mobile Laundromat)