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D20190-10

The Standard Oil gas station located at the Camp Tahoma Auto Camp cabins, 3836 South Tacoma Way. Camp Tahoma, owned by Frank and B.J. Winkes, offered the driving public an alternative to staying in a hotel. The auto camp was demolished around 1966 to make way for Gill Lincoln Mercury.


Automobile service stations--Tacoma--1940-1950; Tourist camps & hostels--Tacoma; Motels--Tacoma--1940-1950; Camp Tahoma (Tacoma);

3836 SOUTH TACOMA WAY, TACOMA

  • 2 images. Camp Tahoma Auto Camp F.D., Thomas E. & Elmer L. Jeter, builder Modern Pacific Cottage Camp Co., contr. -demolished c.1966 to make way for Bill Gill Lincoln-Mercury TDL 2/19/1928 p.A8 Tourist village is building here TDL 5/13/1928 p.E8 (il) TDL 9/9/1928 p.D7 (permit for garage) TDL 2/17/1929 p.E8 (permit for service station) TDL 4/28/1929 p.D10 (permit for eight additional cabins) TDL 10/18/1936 p.B9 ... is sold for $26,000 T.Despatch 7/8/1952 p.1 $15,000 motel blaze TNT 7/17/1988 Motor camps and service stations once peppered South Tacoma Way (il) ----- Tahoma Motel TNT 10/21/1958 p.2 Car snaps off motel faucets 388.10973 F6591W p.100,101 (il)
  • Year Built: 1928
  • Decade Built: 1920s
  • Demolished: c. 1966

D20190-11

The Standard Oil gas station located at the Camp Tahoma Auto Camp cabins, 3836 South Tacoma Way. The station is glass on all four sides, with venting widows that open at the top. Camp Tahoma's cabins, owned by Frank and B.J. Winkes, offered the driving public an alternative to staying in a hotel. The auto camp was demolished around 1966 to make way for Gill Lincoln Mercury.


Automobile service stations--Tacoma--1940-1950; Tourist camps & hostels--Tacoma; Motels--Tacoma--1940-1950; Camp Tahoma (Tacoma);

D20190-12

The Standard Oil gas station located at the Camp Tahoma Auto Camp cabins, 3836 South Tacoma Way. Located next to the cabins was Interstate Motor Sales at 3826 South Tacoma Way. The sign in the background over the auto sale building is for Ace Furnace and Steel at 3740 So. Union.


Automobile service stations--Tacoma--1940-1950; Tourist camps & hostels--Tacoma; Motels--Tacoma--1940-1950; Camp Tahoma (Tacoma); Interstate Motor Sales (Tacoma);