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D748-3
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- 1937-03 (Creation)
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John Sankovich of the City Garbage Department and Charlie Merchant and Gene Robinson of Cooney Transfer & Storage (left to right) muscled an upright piano onto a pile of rubbish and tin cans at the City dump. This worn-out piano was consigned to the dump by Myron Clinton of Clinton's Music House in late March of 1937. It was originally built in London nearly 100 years ago and cost nearly five times what a piano of its type would sell for in 1937. Mr. Clinton felt that no child should learn on a piano that was too dilapidated and was willing to dispose of more worn-out pianos as it became necessary. As the moving men drove away, inhabitants of the nearby "Hollywood on the (Tide)flats" shantytown swarmed over the discarded instrument to tear it apart 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; Refuse disposal--Tacoma--1930-1940; Sankovich, John; Merchant, Charlie; Robinson, Gene; Clinton's Music House (Tacoma);