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Item
Title
D7797-1
Date(s)
- 1939-01-07 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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Scope and content
In January of 1935, a Pierce County grand jury was convened to crack down on vice, gambling, and money slot machines in Tacoma. All Tacomans were called on to step foreward and testify so that "vice, graft and corruption" could be driven from the city. In this picture, taken for the Tacoma Times, Police Sergeant Sherman Lyons and Officer Clarence Rolfson, with slot machines, watch as a jail trustee splinters a pinball machine with a sled hammer. (T. Times, 1/9/1935, p. 5)
Pinball machines--Tacoma; Slot machines--Tacoma; Police--Tacoma; Grand juries; Gambling--Tacoma--1930-1940; Police raids--Tacoma--1930-1940;