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A109747-9
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- 1957-10-28 (Creation)
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Well-equipped Richards Camera Store and Portrait Studio, Villa Plaza Shopping Center. The business would be celebrating its grand opening on November 15, 1957, in the new Villa Plaza Shopping Center located in Lakewood. It would be the second Richards in the Tacoma-area with the first situated in downtown Tacoma since 1898. F.W. (Red) Cowan would be the first manager of the camera shop in Lakewood and Clare Richards the manager of the portrait studio. Richards was known for using the finest in photo equipment and supplies and offered complete photographic services. The Lakewood location would also offer equipment rentals and repairs. (TNT 11-14-57, A-13-alt. photograph)
Richards Cameras, Inc. (Lakewood); Photographic studios--Lakewood; Photography stores--Lakewood; Cameras; Villa Plaza Shopping Center (Lakewood); Shopping centers--Lakewood--1950-1960;