Tech-Craft Plastics, Inc. Plastic and plywood table with four legs. Plastic takes on curved shapes to create legs and supports for the two shelves in this table. Plastic allows more freedom in design because of its ability to take a shape when soft and harden into the desired fixed form.

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Tech-Craft Plastics, Inc. Plastic table. Clear plastic was used to create the top and the two lyre-shaped supports. The base is made of dark, opaque plastic and shaped much like wood. By August 1946 Tech-Craft was producing 400 end, lamp and coffee tables of their own design per month for distribution in Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho and California. (T.Times, 8/14/1946, p.5)

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Tech-Craft Plastics, Inc. Plastic and plywood table with three legs. The designers of this table have used the quality of plastic to take a shape and hold it to create a piece of furniture that departs from the traditional in a beautiful way.

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Hundreds of Tech-Craft tables were being designed and produced in the Tacoma plant per month, then they were distributed throughout the Pacific Northwest. Tech-craft felt plastic was an ideal material for home furnishings, due to its durability and versatile aspects. View of end table made out of plastic and plywood.

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In 1947 Tech-Craft Plastics, Inc. at 2107 Center Street branched out from the manufacture of toys and furniture to producing signs. They could produce anything from 12 inch shelf signs to 60 foot building signs; they were all custom built. Tech-Craft had well trained plastic specialists, which insured prompt delivery and courteous service. This interior view of the sign shop from November of 1947 shows four employees working on signs in various stages of completion, some will be illuminated with incandescent, fluorescent or neon lighting. Per additional information received by readers, the man on the far right has been identified as James Embree and the man second from left is James Wilson Pattin. Mr. Pattin had been employed by Tech-Craft since its beginning and was later shop supervisor for a time when the plant turned its production to dormitory furniture for PNW colleges and universities. Tech-Craft moved to the SE corner of 56th & Tyler in the mid-60s. (T. Times, 12/10/47, p. 25)

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