Coy's Hardware Store, North End Buildiers' Supply. Interior view. Owned by Edwin L. Coy. Shelves hold glassware, small rugs, lamps, gifts, stuffed animals, paints, and housewares. Chairs, hampers and small tables are also for sale.

Hardware stores--Tacoma--1940-1950; Coy's Hardware Store (Tacoma); North End Builders' Supply (Tacoma);

Coy's Hardware Store, North End Buildiers' Supply. Interior view. Owned by Edwin L. Coy. A woman helps customers at a counter with scales and paper on large roll with paper cutter. Bean pots and animal feeders are in the foreground. Gifts, paints, shovels, and mirrors are also seen. Signs say, "We make corsages", "Don't forget a Paint Brush", "We cut Glass and Repair Windows".

Hardware stores--Tacoma--1940-1950; Coy's Hardware Store (Tacoma); North End Builders' Supply (Tacoma);

Window display of Motorola television sets at Barnes Radio and Television Company. Three different television models are shown including a table model and one with doors that close over the not-quite-round screen. Televisions were advertised as a gift for the home at Christmas 1950. "Christmas 1950 can be the most wonderful Christmas ever", "Television may never again cost so little", and a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt, "To me television offers a magnificent opportunity to increase the education which we make available to the children of today". Ordered by Don Wok. (TNT, 11/25/1950, p.12)

Barnes Radio & Television Co. (Tacoma); Televisions--1950-1960; Window displays--Tacoma--1950-1960; Storefronts--Tacoma;