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Name and location of repository
Level of description
Item
Title
D7037-1
Date(s)
- 1938-01-23 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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Scope and content
There was a time when Tacoma had a neighborhood called Hollywood. More specifically it was called Hollywood-on-the-Tideflats. Surrounded by the old city garbage dump, a gas plant, Carsten's packing house and an open slough, it was a patchwork of shacks made from scraps of wood and sheetmetal, canvas and fiberboard. Started during the depression by men who were down on their luck, the colony grew into a rowdy village during World War II. The city finally torn down the last of the houses in 1956.
Huts--Tacoma; Slums--Tacoma; Depressions--1929;