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C157920-2
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- 1933 (Creation)
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ca. 1933. Copy negative of tugboat employed as "Municipal Garbage Tug" ca. 1933. The tugboat "Wallowa" was built in Portland in 1889, and for over 40 years assisted sailboats on the Columbia River and towed log rafts and barges up and down the coast from Portland to Skagway. She was sold to the Foss Launch & Tug Company of Tacoma in 1929. When Hollywood needed a tugboat to star alongside Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery in the film "Tugboat Annie," they chose the old "Wallowa." For the film, she was renamed the "Narcissus." The film "Tugboat Annie" had its world premiere in Tacoma on October 18, 1933. After her starring role, she was rewarded with a new engine, and a complete rebuild of her auxiliary machinery, deck, cabin and pilot house. She was also given an new name, becoming the "Arthur Foss" in honor of the company's president in 1934. The "Arthur Foss" went on to have a distinguished career including service in the World War II; she was the last vessel out of Wake Island before the Japanese invasion of 1941. Renamed the "Theodore Foss" in 1963, she was retired in 1968. ALBUM 6. TPL-9391
Motion pictures; Tugboats--Tacoma; Foss Launch & Tug Co. (Tacoma);