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D748-2
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- 1937-03 (Creation)
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Charlie Merchant and Gene Robinson from Cooney Transfer & Storage with assistance from John Sankovich (at right) are moving an old upright piano off their truck onto refuse piles at City of Tacoma dump. Built about 100 years ago in London, the once-elegant instrument had outlived its usefulness. Myron Clinton of Clinton's Music House in Tacoma had decided to discard the piano instead of permitting unwitting piano students to practice on such a dilapidated item. The piano, once dumped, would not remain intact for long as nearby residents of "Hollywood on the (Tide)flats" immediately confiscated the remnants of the piano for their own personal use. (T. Times, 3-30-37, p. 14-article & alternate photograph).
Pianos; Cooney Transfer & Storage Co. (Tacoma); Moving & storage trade--Tacoma--1930-1940; Trucks--Tacoma--1930-1940; Refuse disposal--Tacoma--1930-1940; Sankovich, John; Merchant, Charlie; Robinson, Gene; Clinton's Music House (Tacoma);