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D8927-1
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- 1939-10-01 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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The Second Annual Picnic of the Columbia Powder Company took place at Spanaway Park on October 1, 1939. Small children are pictured chomping on watermelon while men are stuffing down hot dogs at a picnic area shelter. The man on the far left holding the fedora is Fulvio G. Deangelis,a superintended at the plant. Columbia Powder, one of four powder plants in the state, operated a plant at Frederickson, ten miles southeast of Tacoma. A little more than a year later, a devastating explosion at the plant killed four workers and reduced the two-story frame mixing shed to splinters.
Columbia Powder Co. (Frederickson); Picnics--Spanaway--1930-1940; Eating & drinking--Spanaway; Watermelons--Spanaway;