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- 9 images. Weeks Bldg. Farrell & Darmer, arch. Huntington & Litle, contr. -completed Dec. 1887 -site includes 733-35 Commerce St. -occupants included: Drake & Schreiber Wholesale Liquors, Merchants Saloon, Clark & Keating Billiards, Hotel Revere, Zaugg Saloon, Congress Saloon, Apex Lunch, Richards Photo Studio, Tacoma Athletic Commission, Drake's Bar & Dance Club
- TDL 8/21/1887 p.8 Captain Ainsworth (bldg. to be duplicate of Fife Wholesale Block at 718-20 Pacific Ave.)
- TDL 12/20/1887 p.8 permits
- TDL 1/1/1888 p.6 permits
- TDL 1/29/1888 p.5 (Drake & Schreiber Liquors lease bldg.)
- TNT 1/25/1946 p.8 New home for club (remodeling for the Rudder Club at 735 Commerce St. by Lea, Pearson, & Richards, arch. and Bonnell Construction, contr.) (sketch) (plans at TPL)
- TNT 12/6/1949 p.1 Rudder Club gets permit
- TNT 12/10/1950 p.D15 Grand opening (il of the Tropics Restaurant at 735 Commerce St.)
- TNT 3/23/1956 p.1 Former Rudder Club to be new home for TAC
- TNT 4/24/1956 p.7 TAC moves into new location
- TNT 6/1/1956 p.4 TAC opening new quarters (interior il of Tacoma Athletic Commission at 735 Commerce St.)
- TNT 1/29/1995 p.A1 Restarting the heart of the city (interior il of Drake's Bar & Dance Club) 917.972 T37 p.177 (ad for Drake & Schreiber Liquors) ----- -print at TPL (General Coll., Richards Coll.)
- Year Built: 1887
- Decade Built: 1880s