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Reference code
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Item
Title
D13509-12
Date(s)
- 1942-10-07 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
(1919-1980)
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
In October of 1942, Maxwell Super Service Station, 910 Puyallup Ave., really offered its customers super service. Nine women attendants rush out to take care of a 1942 De Soto convertible (with hide-away headlights!) that has stopped for gas. The women pump gas, check under the hood, put air in the tires and clean the headlights. As more men enlisted or went to work in the defense industries, the women took over the jobs they left behind.
World War, 1939-1945--Women--Tacoma; Automobile service stations--Tacoma--1940-1950; De Soto automobiles; Maxwell Super Service Station (Tacoma);