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1600 TITLOW RD, TACOMA

  • 3 images. H.C. Weaver Productions, Inc. Albertson, Cornell Bros. & Walsh, contr. Carl J. Bilsted, supt. of construction -
  • 105 ft. by 180 ft. with 52 ft. ceiling -"largest floor in the Northwest without supporting pillar" -"only two larger in Hollywood"
  • -five acre site -dedicated 12/14/1924
  • -studio closed c.1928 -bldg. converted into a dance hall in 1932 and renamed the Studio Ballroom
  • -destroyed by fire 8/24/1932
  • -address approximate SEE ALSO: TPL Catalog/Clipping File
  • TNT 9/23/1924 Co. to make home in Tacoma
  • TDL 9/24/1924 p.12 Start new film studio here soon
  • TDL 10/9/1924 p.12 Start construction on big movie studio ("only two larger in Hollywood", largest floor in the Northwest without supporting pillar")
  • TDL 11/9/1924 p.E8 Movie studio has enormous floor space
  • TDL 12/14/1924 p.B1 Dedicate Tacoma movie studio today (il)
  • TDL 12/15/1924 p.1 Studio is hailed as big asset
  • TDL 1/5/1925 Studio praised
  • TDL 1/18/1925 p.A9 City to get movie film laboratory
  • TDL 1/25/1925 p.A5 Studio praised by New York man
  • TDL 2/1/1925 p.A3 Open house to be held today by new studio p.A10 Motion picture plant is ready
  • TDL 2/22/1925 p.A9 (il) TDL 5/10/1925 p.A1 Movie stars reach Tacoma
  • TNT 5/11/1925 p.1 Stars of Hollywood begin work on first photodrama in Tacoma studio (interior il)
  • TDL 5/13/1925 p.1 Close-ups at Tacoma's Hollywood (filming of "Hearts and Fists") (il)
  • TDL 1/3/1926 p.A13 Tacoma made picture given its premier p.H1,H2 (ad)
  • TNT 4/9/1926 "Beggar's" title changed ("Totem Pole Beggar" retitled "Eyes of the Totem")
  • TDL 7/30/1927 p.3 Tacoma-made picture now showing at Rialto ("Raw Country" retitled "Heart of the Yukon")
  • TDL 4/6/1928 p.5 Director may operate
  • TDL 8/25/1932 p.1 Old Weaver studio burns (hard copy only)
  • TNT 8/25/1932 Fire destroys building formerly used as Weaver Studio
  • TNT 11/1/1981 Time Machine
  • TNT 5/24/2015 p.A1 A reawakening for Tacoma silent film! Long-lost "Eyes of the Totem" undergoing restoration for a local September screening (il)
  • 979.7788 ST769H p.99
  • Year Built: 1924
  • Decade Built: 1920s
  • Demolished: 1932

Community Event Collection

  • CAC0003

Includes videos, interviews, and other material gathered by the Community Archives Center at community events.

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

A54766-3

A night view of Mueller-Harkins Buick dealership decorated for Christmas. A Buick has been placed on top of the roof of the service marquee with trees and "Make this a Buick Christmas" banner. Glass-topped Texaco gas pumps, a Firestone neon sign, US Royal Master tire banner, and a motor oil display are also shown. The dealership's neon sign advertising Buick shines brightly on the vertical sign. TPL-10295


Mueller-Harkins Motor Co. (Tacoma); Automobile dealerships--Tacoma--1950-1960; Buick automobile; Christmas decorations; Window displays--Tacoma--1950-1960; Electric signs--Tacoma--1950-1960;

Puget Sound Environmental Atlas

  • 7.1.5
  • Collection
  • 1987

Contains volumes 1 and 2 of the 1987 Puget Sound Environmental Atlas and the 1992 Update. Volumes 1 and 2 have corporate authors: Untied States Army Corps of Engineers, Puget Sound Water Quality Authority, United States Environmental Protection Agency, D. R. Systems Inc. and Evans-Hamilton Inc. The 1992 Update has corporate authors: Puget Sound Water Quality Authority, Washington State and Puget Sound Estuary Program.

Puget Sound Water Quality Authority

3802 6TH AVE, TACOMA

  • E. Goettling TDL 5/22/1904 p.15 permits ----- -information reported that the house was moved c.1980s to "across from Point Defiance School", possibly to 4501 No. Defiance St.
  • Year Built: 1904
  • Decade Built: 1900s
  • Style: cottage
  • 1904 First mention of Goettling house in city directory
  • April 3rd, 1904 Started building house permit issued for $100 North eighty feet of Lots 1,2,3 in block #10
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