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D28551-2
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- 1947-06-25 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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This aerial photograph from June of 1947 shows the south end of the Wapato (now Blair) Waterway in Tacoma's tideflats industrial area. The large building at the end of the waterway is the Birchfield Boiler Company at 2503 East 11th Street, the first industry in Tacoma to lease land from the Tacoma Port Commission. The logs in the right bottom corner are part of the large Cascade Pole Company operation. Cascade Pole opened in 1943. Their creosote treated poles, ties, lumber and pilings were sent as far as Arabia. Much of the tideflats land south of 11th Street was still undeveloped in 1947. (T.Times, 7/2/1947, p.5)
Cascade Pole Co. (Tacoma); Utility poles--Tacoma--1940-1950; Lumber industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Logs;