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D9381-2
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- 1940-02-10 (Creation)
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Beginning immediately after the final edition of the Tacoma Times was "put to bed" on Saturday afternoon February 10, 1940, several hundred tons of heavy machinery, equipment and furniture were moved from the newspaper's building at 819 Pacific Avenue to their new base of operations at 919 Market Street. Four Cooney Transfer & Storage Company trucks, and a crew of fifteen experienced movers, accomplished the transfer in 17 hours. Most of the heavy equipment was located on the second floor of the old building, and it needed to be loaded at the ground floor where the trucks were located. A giant ramp, made of heavy timbers, was constructed from the second floor to the level of the trucks' bed. A triangular "sled" was also constructed of heavy timbers. The machinery was placed on wheels, rolled to the sled on the ramp and slid into the motorized vehicles. When one truck was full, it proceeded to the paper's new home for unloading and an empty truck parked in its place. (T. Times 2/27/1940, pg. 14)
Cooney Transfer & Storage Co. (Tacoma); Tacoma Times Publishing Co. (Tacoma); Moving & storage trade--Tacoma--1940-1950; Dollies (Moving equipment); Trucks--Tacoma--1940-1950;