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D42127-4
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- 1949-04-28 (Creation)
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Five of the barbering students studying under E.S. West at the Tacoma Vocational-Technical School, 1101 Yakima Avenue South, were photographed in 1949 while practicing their new skills on five unidentified boys. The 1,712 hour, nine-month course in barbering was the only one of its kind offered in a vocational-technical school west of the Mississippi. Tacoma Vocational-Technical School began building their facilities in 1940. After the first wing was constructed, the schools facilities were used as a war job training center during WWII. The name of the school was changed to L.H. Bates Vocational-Technical Institute in 1969 to honor the man who was hired in 1944 to be the school's vocational training director. (T.N.T., 5/1/49, p. 1, B-1).
Barbers--Tacoma; Barbering--Tacoma; Apprentices--Tacoma--1940-1950; Hairdressing--Tacoma; Students--Tacoma--1940-1950; Vocational education--Tacoma--1940-1950; Tacoma Vocational School (Tacoma);