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3223 S UNION AVE, TACOMA
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- 1 image. Pacific Match Co. -closed 6/26/1964 SEE ALSO: TPL Catalog/Clipping File TDL 6/18/1924 p.1 Tacoma to get new industry TDL 8/31/1924 p.A8 Match factory is progressing TDL 12/7/1924 p.E8 Pacific Match Co. erects big plant on Center Street (il) TNT 1/22/1925 Now turning out Tacoma-made matches (il) TDL 7/11/1926 p.A6 Match factory is unique plant (il,interior il) T.Times 4/12/1927 Size of match plant doubled TDL 4/24/1932 p.D6 Match firm is constructing new building (concrete warehouse by Fred Smith, contr.) TNT 5/11/1939 p.1 Big match plant saved from flames TNT 5/9/1943 p.A10 Carpenters work scrap (on adjoining "Profanity Hill") TNT 6/24/1951 p.A5 Matches "chewing up doomed milk bottle TNT 9/4/1953 p.C15,C18 Eight million matches daily produced here (il) TNT 9/3/1954 p.C11,C16 Pacific Match daily output 80 million (interior il) TNT 9/5/1955 p.C4,C16 (ad,il) TNT 9/3/1956 p.C2,C13 Plant makes billions of matches here (aerial il) TNT 10/30/1962 p.30 Local firm to make only pine matches TNT 6/27/1964 p.1 Pacific Match closes, idling 150 employees TNT 9/25/1965 p.10 Pacific Match property sold TNT 6/6/1982 Tacoma firm produced matches by the billions (il) 979.7788 R278S p.94 (il of parade float)
- Year Built: 1924
- Decade Built: 1920s
- Demolished: c. 1970
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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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