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Title
D647-2
Date(s)
- 1936-02-26 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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In February of 1936 a crew of 110 W.P.A. workers, pushing wheelbarrows, were hard at work building the section of South Tyler that stretches from Snake Lake to South 66th Street. Build almost entirely by hand labor, the new section of road was designed to open a large area west of South Tacoma. It was also hoped that the new road would lighten the traffic on South Union Avenue. F.A. Halveson, the project supervisor (second from right, hands in pants pockets) estimated that the work would take another four months. When finished the road would be 30 feet wide with a gravel surface. (T. Times 3/7/1936 p.9).
Halveson, F.A.; Works Progress Administration (Tacoma); Road construction--Tacoma--1930-1940; Wheelbarrows; Laborers--Tacoma;