View of the Tacoma Hotel and the waterfront from the original 11th Street Bridge. The bridge was completed in 1895 and closed in 1911. It was later replaced by the current vertical lift bridge, now named for local historian Murray Morgan. circa 1898.

Vibrant Roberta Cohoon, Queen of the Bakers' Ball, leads the Grand March with a fragrant, freshly baked loaf of bread. To the left of Miss Cohoon is Lee Hodgert, member of the executive committee of the Bakers Bureau, and to her right is Gus Mankertz, a baker from Puyallup. The Bakers' Ball, held at the Tacoma Hotel on December 8th, 1934, was the highlight of Tacoma's "Bread Week." It was attended by 2,000 members of the baking industry and their wives who danced the night away in the Peacock Room and the Viking Room. (T. Times 12/10/1934, pg. 10) TPL-8779

Bread; Cohoon, Roberta; Hodgert, Lee; Mankertz, Gus;