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Item
Title
D12876-1
Date(s)
- 1942-05-19 (Creation)
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Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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Scope and content
As a wartime security move to protect the Tideflats Industries, a decision was made to burn down all the shacks in a six block area beginning May 20, 1942. This area had the cheery title of "Hollywood on the Tideflats" and it was composed of shacks built from scrap wood, sheet metal and any other materials its inhabitants could scavenge. Started during the depression, most of its inhabitants had resided there over eight years and averaged 60 years of age. (T. Times 5/20/1942 p.1)
Huts--Tacoma; Slums--Tacoma; World War, 1939-1945--Civil defense--Tacoma;