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Hilltop Area - 14

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On his way to his aunt's apartment complex for a swim in the pool there, 7-year-old Ken Posey ("Cool Papa") leads Corey Bell, 8 (left rear) -- Ken's uncle -- and Errol Mares, 8, on a shortcut. In background, at corner of S. 15th and M Streets, stands brown apartment house, a former crack house now boarded up by police.
K Street Story -- Amy Kunhardt

Taken for the Tacoma News Tribune article titled, "K Street Kids" Aug 19, 1988, Fri p.C1 (see "Hilltop Neighborhood 1988-1992"clipping file)

Hilltop Area - 8

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Her doll accompanies Aisha Bell most days as the 5-year-old plays in the S. 15th Street neighborhood.
K Street Story -- Amy Kunhardt

Taken for the Tacoma News Tribune article titled, "K Street Kids" Aug 19, 1988, Fri p.C1 (see "Hilltop Neighborhood 1988-1992"clipping file)

Hilltop Area - 7

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Five-year-old Aisha Bell (left) eats her lunch on the front steps of a neighbor's house, watched by her older sister Lashanda, 10 and her niece, Tenika Posey, 3. (Tenika is sister of Cool Papa.)
K Street Story -- Amy Kunhardt

Taken for the Tacoma News Tribune article titled, "K Street Kids" Aug 19, 1988, Fri p.C1 (see "Hilltop Neighborhood 1988-1992"clipping file)

Hilltop Area - 6

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Four-year-old Rochelle Atkins plays with a hula hoop at the People's Center playground on S. 15th and K Streets.
K Street Story -- Amy Kunhardt

Taken for the Tacoma News Tribune article titled, "K Street Kids" Aug 19, 1988, Fri p.C1 (see "Hilltop Neighborhood 1988-1992"clipping file)

Hilltop Area - 5

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Thirteen-year-old Jeffrey Colvin flashes the hand sign of the Crips. (See Story: Colvin is one of two teenagers interviewed who seem to watch and respect the gang members.)
K Street Story -- Amy Kunhardt

Taken for the Tacoma News Tribune article titled, "K Street Kids" Aug 19, 1988, Fri p.C1 (see "Hilltop Neighborhood 1988-1992"clipping file)

Tacoma Public Library - Branches - 11

Tacoma Public Library - Martin Luther King Jr. Branch

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L Brown story
Carrie Thomas gets one of the few good vantage points to be had in a crowded ceremony at MLKing Branch of the Tacoma Public Library. (Her dad is the support, he is Dave Thomas, one of the project's architects).

Purchase, Dave (Tacoma) - 4

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"Dave Purchase (center, in hat and sunglasses) hands out clean hypodermic needles in exchange for used ones on Commerce Street in Tacoma. Standing next to him is a Pierce County Health Dept. worker who is engaged in a survey. (shot 2/7/89).

Back of Photo:
"Dave Purchase hands out clean hypodermic needles in exchange for used ones on Commerce Street near 17th. Next to him is a Pierce County Health Department worker who is working on a survey."

(For) "Severson story"
(Photo by Peter) "Haley 2/7/89"

Purchase, Dave (Tacoma) - 8

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"Tacoma Needle Exchange on a downtown street.
Dave Purchase gives a clean hypodermic needle to an I.V. drug user after the use put a used needle into the red plastic container on the table.
1988? 1989? Photo by Peter Haley, The News Tribune (Tacoma), 1950 S. State, Tacoma, WA 98405

Purchase, Dave (Tacoma) - 7

Front of Photo:
"Dave Purchase, founded the needle exchange program in Tacoma. Pic Credit: Morning News Tribune 1988"

Back of Photo:
"Purchase, Dave, he runs the needle exchange downtown Tacoma
Q and A
(Photo by Peter) Haley 1/6/88"

HALLOWEEN (HOLIDAY) 1980 thru - 3

Mary Brown, receptionist at Tacoma's Mary Bridge Hospital, seems immune to the bevy of jolly-faced jack-o-lanterns on her desk and frets away during a few moments this afternoon. The woman usually sports a smile popular with staff and visitor alike. (Photo by Geff Hinds)

HALLOWEEN (HOLIDAY) 1979 And Prior - 2

What is 150 feet long, 10 feet high, and has a serious over-bite? a mechanical haunted monster, of course. Erskine Manufacturing Co. of Puyallup has developed especially for Halloween this "experimental" model for public viewing near Willows Shopping Center, South 112th and Meridian. Proceeds will benefit Puyallup-area organizations.
Photo appeared in article, "WARNING: Possible health hazard" TNT 10/30/1974 p.A4

HALLOWEEN (HOLIDAY) 1979 And Prior - 4

He said he was an Irishman named Jack O'Lantern and he wanted to have his growth removed from his head, but Mrs. Kitty Stolen, admitting nurse at St. Joseph Hospital and Health Care Center allowed as how he'd better wait until Sunday, Halloween night. Actually, it was another hospital employee inside the pumpkin. And it didn't take surgery to get him out.
From article, "Haunted Hospital?" TNT 10/30/1976 p.B14

HALLOWEEN (HOLIDAY) 1979 And Prior - 3

Need some idea for inexpensive ways to dress up the little ones on Halloween? Designer Marie Smith of Hallmark Cards Inc., suggests that the children be allows to create their own masks because "it makes Halloween more fun and gives the children of accomplishment." "Bug-eyes" is made from assorted sizes and colors of paper plates. "Pretty Piggy" is strictly a feminine pig, who will be the belle of any Halloween ball.
Appeared in the article, "Homemade mask for Halloween" TNT10/22/1979 p.A6

HALLOWEEN (HOLIDAY) 1979 And Prior - 1

Goblins, vampires, and other creatures like these are among the residents of a haunted house the Pierce County chapter of the March of Dimes is helping sponsor at 17006 36th Ave E. from 7p.m. to midnight tomorrow. Other haunted houses include the KTAC Campus Life Mystery Mansion, on South 16th Street near Yakima; the Lakewood Youth Athletic Association house at Santa's Village in the Village Plaza Shopping Center, and the Boy Scout Troop 92 house at Camp Curran, 13220 50th Ave. E.
Photo appeared in article, "They're Haunting for Dimes" TNT 10/29/1976 p.A4

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