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737-41 SAINT HELENS AVE, TACOMA

  • 1 image. bldg. Broadway Development Co., builder Heath, Gove & Bell, arch. Martin Petrich, contr. -light art brick and terra cotta -marble wainscoting -site includes 740-44 Broadway -occupants included: Carson's Beauty College, Holt Art Store, Glendale Restaurant, M.D. Boland the Photographer, Progress Italian-American Club, United Churches Service Center, Luigi's Restaurant, Honan's Restaurant, Tacoma Art League, Fox Book Store, The What? Shop, Club Silverstone, Musicians Exchange, Critical Line Art Gallery, Rainbow Center
  • TDL 1/19/1924 p.1 Downtown site brings big figure
  • TDL 1/20/1924 p.E8 (mention)
  • TDL 2/24/1924 p.E8 May add floor to new building
  • TDL 4/27/1924 p.E10 Contract let for Broadway brick building
  • TDL 9/28/1924 p.A11 Store-building construction is heavy in Tacoma (il from Broadway)
  • TDL 3/1/1925 p.E10 Leases of firm total $145,000
  • TDL 3/8/1925 p.B4 Opening elaborate beauty college here (Miss Max MacGilvray, operator) (interior il of Carson's Beauty College at 739 Saint Helens Ave.)
  • TNT 5/6/1944 New service center to be opened Sunday (United Churches Service Center to open at 744 Broadway) T.Times 5/6/1944 Church center for service men ... T.Times 3/14/1946 ... wil dedicate new quarters Sunday (Progressive Italian-American Club)
  • TNT 9/8/1954 p.10,11 Luigi's makes bow to public on Wednesday (Luigi's Restaurant at 739 Saint Helens Ave.) (interior il)
  • TNT 10/12/1954 p.17 (ad for Luigi's)
  • TNT 11/8/1957 p.B4 (ad for Honan's Restaurant)
  • TNT 5/25/1962 p.19 Local Demos dedicate new office (Pierce County Democratic Party)
  • TNT 8/2/1964 p.D13 Trovani's Bootery newly remodeled
  • TNT 3/17/1968 p.A1 "Green Line" for sister saloons; St. Patrick's Day phone tieup to Ireland (call to Honan's Pub in Ennis, Ireland) (interior il of Honan's Restaurant at 739 1/2 Broadway)
  • TNT 3/18/1968 p.8 Sister saloon program sparks boisterous all-day celebration
  • TNT 3/9/1969 P.a1 Irish senator (Dermot Honan) due here for St. Pat's Day
  • TNT 3/14/1969 p.A1 Tacomans salute a proud son of Old Erin p.B6 Honan's 2nd annual St. Patrick's Day celebration
  • TNT 3/16/1969 p.A1 St. Patrick's Day non-parade participants to march to the beat of no drum at all
  • TNT 3/18/1969 p.6 Governor joins Irish in celebration here
  • TNT 8/25/1969 p.29 Burglars finally open restaurant safe on weekend
  • TNT 9/18/1989 Barbara Fox knows her clientele like a book (Fox Book Co. at 737 Saint Helens Ave.)
  • TNT 4/11/1996 p.SL1 Literary animals; children's book set in Tacoma'slandmark downtown bookstore ("The Bookstore Mouse" by Peggy Christian) (interior il of Fox Book Co.)
  • TNT 10/3/1996 p.C8 New owners lure Honan's crowd with "hometown" style
  • TNT 2/24/1998 p.C6 Honan's new face is a gay one (Club Silverstone opens at 739 1/2 Saint Helens Ave.)
  • TNT 11/26/1998 p.B19 What? Shop is what's happenin' (the What? Shop opens at 740 Broadway)
  • TNT 12/9/1998 p.B1 Only death could keep Barbara Fox from her books
  • TNT 4/1/1999 p.B4 Death of owner in December put longtime shop's future in doubt
  • TNT 4/24/1999 p.C9 Loss of Fox book collection leaves a void in downtown; Powell's of Portland purchases entire collection of 30,000 books ... T.City Paper 8/5/1999 p.3 Where queens and lawyers mingle; the Silverstone Family makes it through their first year as owners ofa gay club T.Reporter 12/30/1999 p.21 Musicians Exchange move (Robert Richholt, operator) T.Weekly 5/18/2006 p.C1 New gallery proves critical to new media scene (Critical Line Art Gallery) T.Weekly 5/17/2007 p.A7 Rainbow Center is "out" to celebrate ... new home for Tacoma's LGBT community (interior il) Ranger 4/3/2008 Are our gay bars dumps? (interior il of Club Silverstone)
  • TNT 10/28/2010 p.A1 Raise a glass to Honan, but don't let Irish eyes cry (il of John Honan) 709.797 M613D p.52 The black hole (Tacoma Art League leases space at 742 Broadway from Oct. 1958 to Dec. 1963) 979.778 H628H Vol.I p.429 (ad for the Fox Book Co./Fox's Book Store at 737 Saint Helens Ave.) (sketch)
  • Year Built: 1924
  • Decade Built: 1920s