Harry Morgan's Theater Comique Dougan & Bringham, contr. -completed May 1887
TDL 5/8/1887 p.8 The variety theatre
TDL 1/1/1888 p.6 permits
TDL 6/20/1888 p.4 An exciting scene at fight in Harry Morgan's gambling saloon
TDL 6/26/1888 p.4 Another big raid
TDL 8/14/1888 p.5 Morgan's defiance (builds passage ways, extra doors, etc. in bldg.)
TDL 8/18/1888 p.5 A disgrace to the city; a vulgar and obscene theater ...
TDL 8/19/1888 p.2 (editorial)
TDL 10/14/1888 p.3 Harry Morgan's hell
TDL 10/22/1888 p.4 The tin horn must go (part of a series of editorials against Morgan)
TDL 1/6/1889 p.1 "Hell's half acre"
TDL 1/20/1889 p.8 Babylon has fallen!
TDL 10/14/1889 p.5 Some remarks about gambling
TDL 11/22/1890 p.4 Almost a murder T.Morning Globe Annual 1/1/1891 (il of interior)
TDL 1/15/1892 p.5 Murphy at Morgan's (evangelist)
TDL 2/25/1892 p.5 Gamblers and police
TDL 2/26/1892 p.3 More Morgan matters
TDL 4/12/1892 p.4 The Comique closes
TDL 1/29/1894 p.5 Put to better use (bldg. to be church mission)
TDL 4/30/1899 p.5 Drive the devil out (Salvation Army rally held in bldg.)
TDL 5/13/1906 p.19 (mention that the bldg. is being demolished, last occupants being the Golden Gate Saloon and the Maze Saloon)
TDL 4/10/1910 p.7 Ancient landmark must be wrecked (bldg. declared dangerous and ordered demolished) (NOTE: date of article is wrong, correct date not yet traced) TDN 2/7/1917 When "Morgan the Sphinx", "Honest Gambler", operated in >Tacoma one of biggest "dives" in all America
TDL 10/2/1921 p.E4 When the Theater Comique was one of Tacoma's best T.Reporter 6/11/1998 p.6 Shanghaied! In old Tacoma (il) 979 P118P Jan. 1980 p.6 (il) 979.72 H91 Vol.I p.511 979.778 M823S p.80 (il)