This site had floating docks equipped with electric elevators for hoisting marine crafts, a showroom with motorboat supplies, boat and fishing equipment. View of Standard Oil Marine Products, "Chevron" gasoline pumps, oil tank in background and a motorboat parked in foreground.

Gasoline pumps--Tacoma; Piers & wharves--Tacoma; Motorboats--Tacoma; Standard Oil Marine Products (Tacoma);

View of Standard Oil Marine Products office and workroom, a fire extinguisher is between office door and workroom, "Chevron" gasoline pumps, rules and regulations for people getting gas for their boats, two people and a motorboat parked in foreground.

Gasoline pumps--Tacoma; Piers & wharves--Tacoma; Motorboats--Tacoma; Standard Oil Marine Products (Tacoma);

Standard Oil Marine Products main office is in the background, sailboats and yachts are docked in foreground. Tacoma Boat Mart was originally on this site, they opened in May 1938. Their services included motorboat and sailboat storage, woodworking department, boat and fishing supplies and a large machine shop. Standard Marine likely continued offering the same services to their customers.

Piers & wharves--Tacoma; Harbors--Tacoma; Sailboats--Tacoma; Yachts--Tacoma; Standard Oil Marine Products (Tacoma);

Standard Oil Marine Products main office is in the background, sailboats and yachts are docked in foreground. Tacoma Boat Mart was originally on this site, they opened in May 1938. Their services included motorboat and sailboat storage, woodworking department, boat and fishing supplies and a large machine shop. Standard Marine likely continued offering the same services to their customers.

Piers & wharves--Tacoma; Harbors--Tacoma; Sailboats--Tacoma; Yachts--Tacoma; Standard Oil Marine Products (Tacoma);

Sanford-Nash employees on deck of "Galant Lady", Mr. Nixon. The employees of the automobile dealership and their families are ready to begin their picnic and cruise from the Tacoma Boat Mart. The group is nestled between two automobiles and the men in the back hold a sign announcing the cruise from Quartermaster Harbor.

Sanford-Nash, Inc. (Tacoma); Automobile dealerships--Tacoma--1940-1950; Employees--Tacoma--1940-1950; Automobiles--Tacoma--1940-1950; Tacoma Boat Mart (Tacoma); Families--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Sanford Nash Company, Employees Picnic and Cruise. 30 adults and 15 children between two Nash automobiles in front of Tacoma Boat Mart, 2315 Ruston Way, on September 6, 1947. Banner reads "Sanford Nash Empolyees Picnic-Cruise, Quartermaster Harbor - Tacoma, September 6, 1947."

Sanford-Nash, Inc. (Tacoma); Automobile dealerships--Tacoma--1940-1950; Sanford-Nash, Inc. (Tacoma)--Employees; Nash automobile; Tacoma Boat Mart (Tacoma); Families--Tacoma--1940-1950;

A Tacoma Boat Mart employee is shown assembling a Chris-Craft kit boat at the company's Ruston Way facilities on November 19, 1952. Owned by Mendel and Paul Riggs, Tacoma Boat Mart was a boat service plant which opened in 1938. In addition to boat painting and repairing, they handled new and used boats, outboard motors, and yachts for charters. Photograph ordered by Tacoma Boat Mart.

Boat & ship industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; Boats--Tacoma; Tacoma Boat Mart (Tacoma);

This 31-foot Chris-Craft wood boat was being assembled at Tacoma Boat Mart in January of 1953. After World War II, Chris-Craft began selling boats in kits which could be easily put together. An unidentified Tacoma Boat Mart employee is examining the plywood hull of the boat. To keep the cost of their kits down, Chris-Craft introduced a new boat building material into their kits - plywood. Tacoma Boat Mart, located on Ruston Way, was a boat service plant which had opened in 1938. The Chris-Craft Kit Boat Division was in business from 1950 to 1958. Photograph ordered by Douglas Fir Plywood Association.

Boat & ship industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; Boats--Tacoma; Tacoma Boat Mart (Tacoma); Douglas Fir Plywood Association (Tacoma);

Work continues on a 31' Chris-Craft boat at Tacoma Boat Mart in January, 1953. The Chris-Craft was constructed out of a kit; here a Tacoma Boat Mart employee lifts the plywood hatch. A level and other tools are scattered close by. Photograph ordered by Tom Sias, Douglas Fir Plywood Association.

Progress photographs; Tacoma Boat Mart (Tacoma); Boat & ship industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; Boats--Tacoma; Plywood; Douglas Fir Plywood Association (Tacoma);