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Name and location of repository
Level of description
Item
Title
D152004-5C
Date(s)
- 1967-06-12 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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Scope and content
Color view by air of the Hylebos Waterway in the summer of 1967; General Metals of Tacoma giant scrap yard with piles of junked automobiles and other scrap metal adjoining the water. Metal could be transported via barges, rail or roadway. General Metals of Tacoma's yard was located at 1902 Marine View Dr. N.E. Brown's Point is across the road from the scrap yard. General Metals had a shredding mill and general scrap facility in full operation on their 20-acre site. They had been located there for just a few months when this June, 1967, photograph was taken. (TNT 2-4-68, C-21)
Aerial photographs; Hylebos Waterway (Tacoma); Barges--Tacoma; Junkyards--Tacoma; General Metals of Tacoma Inc. (Tacoma);