1623 E J ST, TACOMA

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Part of Tacoma-Pierce County Buildings Index

3 images. Carstens Packing Co. -partial plans at TPL SEE ALSO: TPL Catalog/Clipping File TDL 8/15/1903 p.7 New $100,000 packing plant TDN 1/16/1905 p.21 (il) TDN 6/29/1905 (il) TDL 2/19/1913 (il) TDL 4/6/1913 p.20 New quarters for Carstens employees TDL 11/9/1913 p.19 (il of employees) TDL 10/11/1914 p.28 Temporary home (after fire) is nearing completion (il) TNL 4/1/1917 p.23 How Carstens Packing Co. is rebuilding (after fire) (il) TNL 6/24/1917 p.21 Carstens building new killing shed TDL 11/13/1921 p.B7 Carstens to start $300,000 building (the first of four new concrete bldgs. by P.V. Cornils, arch.) TDL 11/28/1921 p.6 (il of employees at plant) TDL 7/16/1922 p.B4 Carstens starts building program TDL 3/15/1925 p.B5 Packing Co. will start new factory (new unit by P.V. Cornils, arch.) TDL 3/27/1926 p.10 Carstens will build new unit (Walesby Construction Co., contr.) TDL 7/27/1930 p.D6 (new smoke house planned) TDL 11/16/1930 p.D8 (il of improvements under construction) TDL 8/2/1931 p.A7-A9 Now in $150,000 modern office building (il) TDL 2/9/1932 p.C7 New executive offices of Carstens Co. (il) TDL 6/27/1933 p.B4 Carstens in march of progress (il) TDL 7/21/1935 p.A6 New Internationals to Carstens (il) T.Times 8/19/1938 p.18 Carstens celebrating 41st anniversary (aerial il) TNT 8/28/1939 p.2 Carstens Co. will build (slaughter house by C.F. Davidson, contr.) TNT 5/15/1947 p.1 Tacoma "rodeo"; Carstens' herd on rampage (il) TNT 5/16/1947 p.1 Ten steers still are at large TNT 6/21/1953 p.B6 Carstens firm building huge fertilizer plant (Otto Stolz, arch.) TNT 9/4/1953 p.C12 Big industry 49 years old (aerial il) 917.97 W52W 1905 p.35 (il) ----- Hi-Grade Packing Co. / Hygrade Food Products Corp. TNT 1/16/1954 p.1 Carstens Packing Co. sold to eastern firm TNT 2/14/1954 p.A11 Carstens Co. in new hands TNT 3/10/1955 p.B4 Hygrade executives here (interior il) TNT 9/5/1955 p.C4 (ad,aerial il) TNT 9/3/1956 p.C5 (aerial il) TNT 5/25/1960 p.A21 (il of employees) TNT 8/15/1960 p.2 Meat plant fire halted TNT 9/1/1961 p.B9 Hygrade plans shows growth in 6 years here TNT 8/31/1962 p.B11 Hygrade plant NW supplier of meats (interior il) TNT 12/4/1965 p.1 Tacomas police spend 2 hours shooting bull TNT 5/22/1967 p.21 Smokehouse fire ruins $5,000 worth of meat TNT 1/12/1969 p.B19 Hygrade ranks high as Tacoma employer (interior il) TNT 10/4/1985 Hygrade to close; 400 to lose jobs Seattle Times 7/12/1990 p.E6 Hygrade to close plant in Tacoma TNT 10/24/1996 p.B6 Mopping up the fire (il)
Year Built: 1903
Decade Built: 1900s

1623 E J ST, TACOMA

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Part of Tacoma-Pierce County Buildings Index

3 images. Pacific Meat Co. Richley, arch. -address approximate TDL 2/16/1895 p.7 To build the packing house TDL 5/4/1895 p.3 Packing house takes form TDL 5/5/1895 p.5 (mention) TDL 6/1/1895 p.5 Two hundred men at work TDL 7/14/1895 p.12 Biggest in all the West (sketch) TDL 7/3/1898 (il) TDL 4/20/1903 p.1 Big packing house destroyed by fire (il)
Year Built: 1895
Decade Built: 1890s
Demolished: 1903

1623 E J ST, TACOMA

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Part of Tacoma-Pierce County Buildings Index

Northwest Detention Center, U.S. Bureau of Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), Dept. of Homeland Security (before 2003 the dept. was known as the U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service) GEO Group / Correctional Services Corp. (Sarasota, Florida), builder & operator -original162,000 sq. ft., 500 inmate capacity, expandable to 760 inmates -expanded to 1,500 in 2008 -opened 4/7/2004 TNT 12/3/1999 p.A1 Tideflats sites eyed for INS holding jail T.Reporter 4/6/2000 p.7 Just another jail in paradise TNT 12/17/2000 p.B1 Work on INS jail may start soon TNT 7/31/2002 p.B2 Florida company will build INS detention facility on Tideflats T.Weekly 9/27/2002 p.A6 Opinions: INS detention center will drag Tacoma down TNT 3/9/2004 p.A1 Federal jail anything but a dungeon (interior il) TNT 3/14/2004 p.B6 Prosecutor warns feds not to dump alien convicts here (il) T.Weekly 4/1/2004 p.A1 New detention center in Tacoma raising concerns (il) TNT 4/8/2004 p.B1 Detention center discord TNT 7/4/2008 p.A1 Detainee facility to expand TNT 1/9/2009 p.D1 Detention Center cleanup due again TNT 9/9/2012 p.A1 Center of detention (first of a special five-part News Tribune report) (aerial il) TNT 3/10/2014 p.A3 330 immigration center detainees on hunger strike TNT 10/8/2015 p.A3 Must we have 10 more years of privately run immigrant detention on Tideflats? (interior il) TNT 2/10/2017 p.A1 Under Trump, detention centers expected to be a growth industry (aerial) TNT 2/26/2017 p.A1 In Trump era, could ICE center expand? (aerial il) TNT 3/9/2017 p.A1 Interim rule blocks detention site growth T.Weekly 3/31/2017 p.A1 Northwest Detention Center: Inside the fence (interior il) TNT 3/25/2018 p.B1 ICE detention site sues city over efforts to limit its size TNT 6/28/2018 p.A1 Ten arrested outside migrant detention center, police say (aerial il) TNT 9/26/2018 p.A1 Tacoma gets win in effort to stop immigration detention center growth (il) TNT 7/14/2019 p.A1 Police shoot, kill attacker at center for ICE detainees (il) TNT 7/15/2019 p.A1 Morning after attack, bullet holes and a search for answers (il) TNT 7/17/2019 p.A1 Officials urge unity following ICE center attack TNT 7/20/2019 p.A1 Officers in fatal shooting at detention center identified TNT 7/21/2019 p.A5 Man killed outside detention center felt angry toward ICE TNT 8/17/2019 p.A3 Video reveals explosion, gunfire during immigrant center attack ----- Northwest ICE Processing Center TNT 9/11/2019 p.A1 ICE allows media in detention center 2 months after attack (interior il) TNT 12/14/2020 p.2A Advocates seek court order on detention facility (il)
Year Built: 2004
Decade Built: 2000s

A120685-1

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1959-04-17

Part of Richards Studio Photographs

Carsten- Hygrade employees pose in the yard at the meat packing facility at 1623 East "J" St. According to Richards Studio notes, the picture is of 300-400 people. The locally owned Carstens Meat Packing got its start in Tacoma in 1903. In 1954, it was sold to the Hygrade Food Products Corporation. In 1990, the company made the decision to close its Tacoma plant.

Carstens Packing Co. (Tacoma); Meat industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; Carstens-Hygrade (Tacoma)--Employees;

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1949-08-23

Part of Richards Studio Photographs

Three unidentified employees at the Carstens Packing Company plant, 1623 East J St., in Tacoma look over the sides of beef hanging in one of the Carstens' meat lockers. Carstens Packing Company was the largest independent meat packing company on the West Coast, with plants in Tacoma, Seattle and Spokane. They provided quality assured wieners, beef, bacon, ham, sausage, lamb, pork, veal and many other meat products. A copy of this photograph was ordered by the Poodle Dog Restaurant in Fife to be part of the Richard's Commercial Photography photo mural at the restaurant. The Carstens Packing Company was sold to Hygrade in 1952, and closed in 1990.

Industrial facilities--Tacoma; Meat industry--Tacoma; Meat; Meat cutting--Tacoma--1940-1950; Laborers--Tacoma--1940-1950; Carstens Packing Co. (Tacoma); Poodle Dog (Fife);

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1926-07-10

Part of Marvin Boland Photographs

These cattle were confined within the Carstens Packing Co.'s stockyards in July of 1926. Feeding troughs were built within the pens and many of the cattle pictured have their heads buried deep inside the bins. Carstens was a major meat packing firm located in the Tideflats since 1903. The stockyards had space for 1,200 cattle. The cattle would have been fattened up, slaughtered, and their meat processed by Carstens' large workforce. (TNT 3-31-27, p. 6-article on Carstens plant)

Cattle--Washington; Carstens Packing Co. (Tacoma); Meat industry--Tacoma--1920-1930; Stockyards--Tacoma--1920-1930;

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1926-07-10

Part of Marvin Boland Photographs

Unidentified Carstens Packing Co. employee stands in front of a heavy duty truck with trailer on July 10, 1926, at the company plant, 1623 East J St. in the Tideflats. The truck and accompanying trailer are labeled "Carstens Products" and state that the U.S. government has inspected meats processed by the firm. Customers could be assured that the meat was safe to eat, no small worry after the horrors of the meat packing industry uncovered decades before by novelist Upton Sinclair.

Trucks--Tacoma--1920-1930; Carstens Packing Co. (Tacoma); Meat industry--Tacoma--1920-1930;

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1926-08-18

Part of Marvin Boland Photographs

Exterior view of large Carstens Packing Co. plant taken in mid-August of 1926. The meat packing firm was located at 1623 East "J" St. in the Tideflats, now the site of the Northwest Detention Center. Carstens relocated to Tacoma in 1903 and would later be known as the largest meat packing company on the West Coast with plants in Tacoma, Spokane and Seattle. In 1926 Carstens put forth plans to build a new four-story unit to hold the sausage factory, sausage coolers, lard refinery and smoke houses, beef coolers and beef sales coolers. The company sought to replace annually older, outdated buildings with permanent reinforced concrete construction. The gradual replacement meant that no sections of the plant would be out of commission before their replacements were erected. Fires in 1914, 1916 and shortly after caused the company to incur $750,000 in losses. The replacement of wooden buildings by concrete structures would make the plant more modernized as well as fireproof. (TDL 3-27-26, p. 10-article; TNT 3-31-27, p.6-article)

Carstens Packing Co. (Tacoma); Meat industry--Tacoma--1920-1930;

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1926-08-28

Part of Marvin Boland Photographs

Carstens Packing Co. crane with unidentified worker photographed in late August of 1926. The large meat packing firm was located in the Tideflats at 1623 East "J" St. TPL-5821; TPL-7935; G49.1-188; G34.1-165

Hoisting machinery; Carstens Packing Co. (Tacoma);

BOLAND-B24896

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1932-10-13

Part of Marvin Boland Photographs

Carstens Packing Co. building as viewed on October 13, 1932; two KMO antennae in sight. Completed in 1931, this $150,000 building housed the executive offices of the company. Despite the nation's economic woes, Carstens continued to do annual business of about 15 million dollars. TPL-5919; G34.1-166 (TDL 2-9-32, C-7-article & alternate photograph)

Carstens Packing Co. (Tacoma); Meat industry--Tacoma--1930-1940; Radio antennas--Tacoma;