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3012 S WILKESON ST, TACOMA
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- 10 images. Atlas Foundry & Machine Co. -established in 1899 SEE ALSO: TPL Catalog/Clipping File TDL 7/24/1910 p.39 New foundry building TDL 3/26/1916 p.28 Fireproof pattern vault for Atlas Foundry Company (Heath & Gove, arch.) TNL 10/15/1916 p.23 (il of pattern house) TNL 2/11/1917 p.2 Big foundry makes addition to plant TDL 2/13/1921 p.B5 Foundry shows big growth in 17 years (interior il) TDL 5/29/1922 p.6 (il of employees in front of plant) TDL 10/15/1923 p.5 (il) TNT 7/24/1941 p.9 Addition to Atlas Foundry (Ketner Bros., contr.) T.Times 12/10/1947 South Side Section (il) TNT 3/8/1953 p.A8 Winds up 50 years on same job at foundry (il of Harry L. Cozine) TNT 1/16/1955 p.A18 Foundryman will retire after 44 years (interior il) TNT 3/11/1958 p.1 22-foot fall kills worker TNT 6/8/1958 p.A1 Cobalt capsule saves thousands at foundry TNT 8/17/1962 p.3 Fire causes $1,000 loss at Atlas Foundry TNT 6/2/1963 p.B4 (addition) TNT 1/8/1964 p.B2 Atlas Foundry wins award TNT 1/19/1964 p.A12 Out of Tacoma's past (il of Wm. Schiesz Butcher Shop at 1911 So. 30th St. in 1891) (bldg. later used by Atlas Foundry as a pattern shop) TNT 9/26/1965 p.B13 (permit taken for office bldg.) TNT 3/20/1966 p.B9 (permit taken for craneway) TNT 8/10/1969 p.D9 (permit taken for melt shop, pattern shop and quality control bldg.) TNT 9/14/1969 p.D12 (office remodeling) TNT 8/26/2002 p.B2 ... fire blamed on late-night welding work TNT 8/27/2002 p.D1 Foundry work goes on despite fire (il) TNT 11/6/2002 p.D1 Hometown buyers shoulder Atlas 363.37 T142O p.72 (account of fire on 9/24/1929) p.86 (account of fire on 1/24/1935) 979.7788 R278S p.67,86,93,101,115,122 (il, interior il) ----- Atlas Castings & Technology TNT 5/23/2004 p.A1 Home-sourced with pride ... from Center Street in Tacoma to atop the new Narrows Bridge (interior il) TNT 10/7/2007 p.A1 "Everything shook then went black"; a fireball from a propane explosion ... foundry a large employer with historic roots here (il) TNT 10/8/2007 p.A1 In foundry's charred belly, inspectors look for clues (il) TNT 10/9/2007 p.A1 Gas leak blamed for blast TNT 10/10/2007 p.A1 Pre-blast scene caught on tape T.Weekly 10/11/2007 p.A1 Explosions rip through foundry (il) TNT 10/14/2007 p.B1 Atlas drains propane tanks TNT 10/15/2007 p.A1 Driver of propane truck dies TNT 11/18/2007 p.D1 What would your company do? ... disaster planning (il) TNT 6/28/2008 p.D1 What's that? (il of new heat treatment and burn-and-arc bldg. by General Mechanical, Inc., contr.) ----- Bradken-Atlas Foundry TNT 12/20/2011 p.A12 What's that? (il of concrete vault for accelerator under construction) TNT 7/26/2013 p.A3 Roof collapse ignites foundry fire (il) TNT 3/21/2014 p.A12 Century-old building at foundry being razed (il)
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Abbreviation Key GTWY - Peninsula Gateway, TDL - Tacoma Daily Ledger, TDN - Tacoma Daily News, TNL - Tacoma News Ledger, TNT - Tacoma News Tribune
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