ca. 1947. This 1947 Diamond T was the first pallet loading beverage truck in Washington state. An unidentified Cammarano Brothers employee is pictured above operating a MobilLift forklift with the first load of Rainier Beer being placed into the truck. (Photograph courtesy of the William Cammarano Collection) TPL-10417
Diamond T trucks; Beer--Tacoma; Cammarano Bros. (Tacoma);
ca. 1951. In 1951 five new Dodge soft drink route trucks were parked outside the Cammarano Brothers warehouse at South 23rd & "A" Sts. The trucks advertised Mission Orange sodas. The Cammarano Brothers were distributors of beer and bottlers of carbonated beverages. After many decades in the beverage distribution business, the firm closed in May of 2001. (Photograph courtesy of the William Cammarano Collection) TPL-10421