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Item
Title
D129800-186
Date(s)
- 1961 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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Scope and content
ca. 1961. Circa 1961 aerial view of Tacoma Yacht Club, ASARCO smelter, Point Defiance Park and Ruston. The large, long buildings to center left belong to the copper smelter ASARCO. To the right of ASARCO is the Tacoma Yacht Club and its mooring. Above the Yacht Club is the outline of Pt. Defiance's amusement park Funland. To the upper right hand of the photograph is the pond garden in the Bowl area entrance to Point Defiance. To the upper center is the city of Ruston.
Aerial photographs; Boathouses; Boats; Tacoma Yacht Club (Tacoma); Mooring; American Smelting & Refining Co. (Tacoma); Smelters--Tacoma--1950-1960; Funland (Tacoma); Point Defiance Park (Tacoma); Amusement parks--Tacoma--1930-1940;