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A8380-1
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- 1939-05-31 (Creation)
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Windows of Tacoma Savings and Loan in Bowes Building being cleaned by Universal Window Contractors. Three men standing in front of steam cleaning vehicles, scaffold lowered from roof. Renaissance style building by Heath and Twichell, Architects, 1909. There were seven banks in Tacoma in 1899 but no savings and loan association until Tacoma Savings and Loan opened on June 28, 1899 in an office in the Vanderbilt building on the southwest corner of 13th and Pacific Avenue. George R. Whitty became the organization's first president. Tacoma's population at that time was 40,000. In 1939 Alfred Lister was president of the association and had served in that capacity for 35 years. (TNT, 4/30/1940)
Window cleaning--Tacoma--1930-1940; Universal Window Contractors (Tacoma); Banks--Tacoma; Tacoma Savings & Loan Association (Tacoma);