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Freeway--Interstate 5 - 1

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--Freeway Model Displayed--
A 40-foot model of the Tacoma Freeway as it will appear when completed in several years is being displayed this month on the second floor of the county-City Building. Picture shows freeway running east to and over the Puyallup River. G. M. Schuster, city public works director, front right, points to state approach to city's projected Yakima Avenue Bridge. Under his arm are Delin Avenue and Tacoma Avenue undercrossings. Behind Schuster are Harold A. Hagestad, left, coordinating engineer between Tacoma and state, and Myron Calkins, city engineer. They are pointing to the complex of crossings and approaches that will be the Pacific Avenue Interchange, designed to relieve Freeway of Cross-town traffic congestion.

Aged and Age--Activities - 5

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Norbert Paul and Maggie Heasley were a whirlwind at the weekly square dance at the Kent Senior Center called "Ring N Swing" last Thursday. Every Thursday from 1 to 3 seniors from around the area get together for the dance with a live caller.
Haley

Freeway--Interstate 5 - 2

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--Who Needs a Sign?--
No arrow is necessary at the South 108th Street and Pacific Avenue intersection to point out Mount Rainier. Not in good weather anyway. The early spring, with crystal-like skies, is now in its seventh consecutive rainless day. It affords new opportunities to capture Tacoma's favorite mountain on film, as seen in this framed photograph by News Tribune Staff Photographer Wayne Zimmerman.

Hilltop Area - 1

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Hilltop Area


SCAM (Sheridan, Cushman, Ainsworth, and M Street) neighborhood group members are shown picking up litter in the alleyway between South Sheridan and South M Street. It was the second annual clean up hosted by SCAM. “In addition to cleaning the alleys, the group has put pressure on neighborhood landlords to clear vacant lots of trash and high weeds and to demolish the remnants of partially raised structures.” Photo by staff member Jerry Buck

Indians, Nisqually - 12

Sid Mills and an unidentified tribal member fishing on the Nisqually River despite laws preventing fishing. Both tribal members were arrested after they dropped a net and sped upstream.


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Indians, Nisqually
Photograph by Jerry Buck

Nuclear Power Plant--(Hanford Nuclear Reservation)(Hanford Atomic Energy Commission Reservation) - 13

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At its peak, population at the Hanford Site swelled to 51,00, making it one of the largest construction camps in the world. Between 1943 - 45, 130 barracks, 900 temporary buildings and 4,300 trailers were built. Eighty tons of food were served each day in the eight mess halls.
Westinghouse Hanford Company photo

PORT OF TACOMA--PIER 7 (Pier 7) pictures Oct 1960 thru Dec 1978 - 2

From clipping in file: "Pier 7 Extension Project Begins: Manson Construction and Engineering equipment dredging the $3 million extension to Pier 7 appear in this aerial photo taken by News Tribune staff photographer Bob Rudsit. The 900-foot concrete extension will provide a fourth berth for Pier 7, located on the northeast side of Sitcum Waterway between East 11th Street and Commencement Bay. The port's giant alumina storage domes and the tallow shipping tank farm, the latter at the left, dominate the aerial scene. Floating drydock for Aerojet's surface-effect test craft is at right.
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"Port of Tacoma - Pier 7"
"Pier 7 extension"
Photograph by Bob Rudsit

Aged and Age--Activities - 6

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Eighty-seven-year-old Rudy Anderson has earned the privelege of sacking out for a snooze in the middle of the Old Fashioned Senior Picnic held at Five Mile Lake County Park Thursday. He had just finished a lunch of barbecued hamburger and the Navy Band of Seattle had begun to play. Hundreds of seniors from around the area attended and activities included games and drawings as well.
Haley

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