ca. 1926. This photograph of the Rock Dell soccer team ran in the January 16, 1927 Tacoma Daily Ledger when the team became Tacoma's representative in Division II of the Northwest League. They were scheduled to play the Black Diamond Bricquets in a double header at Athletic Park. Soccer was very popular in America in the 1920's. The USA was one of 13 teams attending the first FIFA World Cup in 1930 Uruguay, a contest they were favored to win before being eliminated by Argentina in the semi-finals. Pictured are back row, left to right, Tom Downing, Horace Steele, C. Froste and Joe Bowers. Middle row: Alex McLeod, Arthur Piltie, Jay Cook, Fred James and Bobby Sandford. Front row: Fred Jennings, Jack Reed, Sam Downing, Les Brogan and Bert Warner. (WSHS) (TDL 1/16/1927, pg. C-2)

Soccer--Tacoma--1920-1930; Soccer players--Tacoma--1920-1930; Rock Dell Soccer team (Tacoma);

ca. 1926. Soda Fountain interior, circa 1926. Marble counter with built in bar stools. Backbar has assortment of bottles, candies, and fountain equipment, sign for Brown and Haley Candies above. Pie case with countertop gum machine at end of counter. (filed with Argentum)

Soda fountains--1920-1930;

ca. 1926. Walker Cut Stone Company, view of rock quarry in Wilkeson. From 1914 until 1959, the stone quarry was operated by Robert Walker of the Walker Cut Stone Co. Located about a quarter mile up and to the left of the town, the Wilkeson stone quarry was a section of hillside 250 feet high and 175 feet across. It required three cranes to move the men and equipment up to the platforms located on the face of the sandstone. The temporary platforms were moved as the men worked about the face of the stone. Wilkeson sandstone had waterproof qualities and was highly valued as a durable building material. TPL-976 ("Carbon River Coal Country" by Nancy Irene Hall)

Walker Cut Stone Co. (Tacoma); Building materials industry--Tacoma--1920-1930; Quarrying--Wilkeson--1920-1930;

ca. 1926. Walker Cut Stone Company, view of rock quarry in Wilkeson. Located about 3 miles southwest of the current location of Buckley, Wilkeson was an important producer of coal and sandstone. Sandstone was a common building and paving material. The sandstone quarry was operated by Walker Cut Stone from 1914-1959. The drillers and powdermen worked from temporary platforms on the face of the stone that could be moved as needed. It took three cranes to move the men and equipment up to the platforms to work. ("Carbon River Coal Country" by Nancy Irene Hall)

Walker Cut Stone Co. (Tacoma); Building materials industry--Tacoma--1920-1930; Quarrying--Wilkeson--1920-1930;

ca. 1926. Walker Cut Stone Company, view of rock quarry in Wilkeson. A large block of stone is being hoisted out of the quarry. The rock they removed had to come down in solid square pieces, averaging 30 tons each. The stones were then loaded onto railroad cars to be sent to Tacoma for processing. Wilkeson sandstone was used frequently as a building material in Tacoma and around the state. ("Carbon River Coal Country" by Nancy Irene Hall)

Walker Cut Stone Co. (Tacoma); Building materials industry--Tacoma--1920-1930; Quarrying--Wilkeson--1920-1930;

ca. 1926. Ladies Aid Society gathering at Plymouth Congregational Church. (filed with Argentum)

ca. 1926. A little girl and a man in a suit pose beside an early model automobile driven by a woman. (WSHS)

ca. 1926. Unidentified meat market. (WSHS)

ca. 1926. Internal Revenue Class in front of Tacoma Federal Building, designed by the United States Treasury Department, James Knox Taylor, Supervising Architect. (Argentum)

Internal Revenue Service (Tacoma)--1920-1930; Federal Building (Tacoma);

ca. 1926. Judge William and Pauline Snell's residence. Large Dutch Colonial house designed in 1913 by Heath, Gove and Bell, Architects for Mrs. F.S. Blattner. Natural wood siding, awnings on second floor windows, landscaping. Detached garage to left of house. (Argentum)

Snell, William--Homes & haunts; Houses--Tacoma--1920-1930;

ca. 1926. Dressed in pinstriped uniforms are the Cammarano Bros. baseball team, circa 1926 or 1927. The Cammarano Bros. were Tacoma bottlers and distributors of carbonated beverages and beer. They sponsored employee baseball teams for many years who competed in local leagues. Names of the above players were not given. (Photograph courtesy of the William Cammarano Collection) TPL-10407

Cammarano Bros. (Tacoma); Baseball players--Tacoma--1920-1930; Uniforms;

The cargo ship "Tacoma" takes on lumber at the Defiance Mills dock in January of 1927

N Yakima Avenue at N Carr Street, looking west up the small hill, taken on January 16, 1927. Grassy strip on the right with small bare trees and lamppost. Paved street at center turns up an incline; houses on both sides.

Employees of the Skansie Shipbuilding Company, in Gig Harbor, posed around a Fairbanks Morse engine intended for the "Defiance," the Pt. Defiance to Gig Harbor ferry which had been launched on January 16, 1927. By the mid 1920's, ferries were being designed to carry automobiles. The Skansie Brothers yard in Gig Harbor was one of the first to build the auto ferries. The "Defiance" had an 70-car capacity. Mitchell Skansie pioneered the use of diesel engines in ferries and the "Defiance" had a 360 hp engine which could travel with a speed of 10 knots. (Neal & Janus "Puget Sound Ferries") G66.1-091 (TNT 1-15-27, p. 14-article; TNT 1-17-27, p. 15-article)

Ferries--1920-1930; Skansies Shipbuilding Co. (Gig Harbor); Boat engines;

Rex McCargar and his Orchestra at the Hotel Winthrop. The tuxedoed musicians have their instruments on display in this January 20, 1927, photograph. The singers and entertainers, advertised as the "most popular orchestra in the city," went on to appear at the Hotel Tacoma the following week. The Hotel Tacoma provided dancing every Friday night with a 50 cent cover charge. (TNT 1-31-27, p. 8-ad) G40.1-034

McCargar, Rex; Musicians--Tacoma--1920-1930; Hotel Winthrop (Tacoma);

Scene of an automobile wreck on the Mountain Hwy. in the Loveland area. This photograph was taken in January of 1927. The accident apparently occurred at the railroad crossing. There are three buildings in the immediate area, two of which sold gas, and Loveland Park is in the distant background. G77.1-142

Neighborhoods--Loveland; Railroad crossings; Roads--Washington;

Several unidentified members of Tacoma's Chamber of Commerce paid a visit to the Danish motorship "Tacoma" when she docked at the Defiance Lumber Mill on her maiden voyage January 14, 1927. They posed with members of the crew for this portrait. The "Tacoma" was built in Copenhagen for the Orient Steamship Company of Copenhagen. She was loading Northwest lumber enroute to Japan. She was 400 feet in length with a beam of 55 feet. She ran under the power of two diesel engines with a crew of 15 officers and 34 crewmen. (TNT 1/14/1927, pg. 20) (WSHS)

Lumber industry--Tacoma--1920-1930; Cargo ships; Shipping--Tacoma--1920-1930; Orient Steamship Co. (Copenhagen); Commerce--Tacoma--1920-1930; Chamber of Commerce (Tacoma)--1920-1930;

9A Class, Franklin B. Gault School, Jan. 1927 Franklin B. Gault intermediate school opened in February of 1926. The school was designed by Hill & Mock. It was intended to serve Tacoma's East Side. It was named after Dr. Gault, superintendent of Tacoma's schools from 1888-1892. The school, with additions, is still in use in 2006. (WSHS)

Public schools--Tacoma; Gault Junior High School (Tacoma); School children--Tacoma--1930-1940; Portraits;

Washington State Associated Master Barbers of America banquet held January 1927 at the Hotel Winthrop. (WSHS)

Hotel Winthrop (Tacoma); Washington State Associated Master Barbers of America (Tacoma); Banquets--1920-1930;

Tacoma's grand opera house, the Tacoma Theater was built at 902 Broadway in 1889. It was converted into a motion picture theater in 1927 and renamed the Broadway Theater (or Theatre, as on its marquee). Workmen are seen preparing the new marquee in January of 1927. Over 20,000 people attended the grand opening on Feb. 4, 1927. Renamed the Music Box Theater in 1933, the building was destroyed in a spectacular fire on April 30, 1963.

9A Class Robert Gray School, January 1927. The school designed by E.J. Bresemann opened for classes in February of 1926. It was intended to serve the South Tacoma community and was named the Capt. Robert Gray Intermediate School. Gray was an American naval officer and explorer who, in 1792, was the first to sail a ship into the Columbia River. This was the first group of students to graduate from the intermediate course of study at the school. They for the most part would continue with their studies at Lincoln High School. (WSHS) (TNT 2/2/27, pg. 13)

School children--Tacoma--1920-1930; Public schools--Tacoma--1920-1930; Gray Junior High School (Tacoma);