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Title
C11626-1
Date(s)
- 1937-07-17 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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The Tacoma Times paid H.M. Wernick of northeast Tacoma $3 for the rights to publish this dramatic photograph of multiple bolts of lightning in July of 1941. On Thursday July 17th of that year as the temperature in Tacoma rose to 94 degrees, a vicious thunder and lightning storm swept through the south sound. It was the fourth day in a row that temperatures in Tacoma had exceeded 85 degrees. The storm, which started dozens of fires throughout the region, did little to moderate the temperatures which were already back up to 88 degrees by noon on Friday the 18th. (T. Times, 7/18/1941 p. 1)
Lightning; Lightning strikes; Storms--Tacoma--1930-1940;