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Title
D7183-3
Date(s)
- 1938-04-08 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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Early in the morning on Friday April 8, 1938 Al Meyers (left) and Roy Arnold guided cable car No. 87 into the car barn at 13th and A Streets. At 1 a.m. the last cable car in Tacoma had made its last loop run up 11th Street to K Street (now Martin Luther King Jr. Way) and down 13th to A. For 47 years Tacoma's cable cars had carried hill weary Tacomans up 11th Street to the County Court House, the Tacoma Public Library, and the K Street shopping district. (T.Times, 4/8/1938, p.1).
Mass transit--Tacoma; Cable railroads--Tacoma; Street railroads--Tacoma; Street railroad employees--Tacoma; Myers, Al; Arnold, Roy; Tacoma Railway & Power Co. (Tacoma);