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Name and location of repository
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Item
Title
D8245-1
Date(s)
- 1939 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
(1919-1980)
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
ca. 1939. Aerial view from the Narrows of Tacoma's West End with downtown and the Tideflats beyond. Running down the center of the photograph is Sixth Ave. as it veers off to Titlow Beach in the lower right hand. It is crossed by Pearl Street, where the excavation for (what is believed to be) a planned Tacoma airport forms a pattern on the ground. The area is largely undeveloped. Construction on the Narrows Bridge (Galloping Gertie) had begun but was far from completion. For a 1961 aerial view of the same location, see D129800, images 43 & 131. TPL-9156
Aerial photographs;