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Hilltop Area - 23

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Hilltop (Home Ownership Program)


“One of the six houses in the Seafirst program awaits the remodelers’ hammers and saws.” Seafirst Bank, the Martin Luther King Housing Development Association, and the Tacoma Housing Authority organized a program to help low-income Pierce County residents purchase a home and revitalize Tacoma’s Hilltop Neighborhood. Four houses were purchased by the Martin Luther King Housing Development Association and two others were owned by the Tacoma Housing Authority. The Martin Luther King Housing Development served as the developer and remodel of all six homes while Seafirst Bank provided government backed loans to both agencies that would later be assumed by the buyers.

Bingo (Gambling) - 5

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--BJ's Bingo, new Indian gambling rules.
Lazara Gallardo, 90, of Tacoma plays bingo at BJ's Bingo Hall Friday. Her granddaughter, Lamar Abalahin, 22, of Tacoma is sitting behind her. They were playing in hopes of winning one of the six Yugos given away at BJ's. The winner of the car was Lazara's daughter! (Juanita A. Pastor, winner)
Photo by Susie Post

Hawthorne Neighborhood (Hawthorne District) - 1

“Hawthorne residents protested giving up their homes for the dome.” During a public hearing, the public was divided on where to build the dome. The city council heard people arguing about placing the dome downtown or in the Hawthorne Neighborhood. Photo by staff member Bob Rudsit.


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Erick Johnson


Three people hold signs reading, "Save Historic Hawthorne" and "We won't move our homes of fifty years or more. They are paid for."

Indians, Puyallup (General) - 16

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Indians, Puyallup


Joe Washington, shaman of the Lummis, led the Puyallup Tribe in a ceremony marking the start of the salmon run. The ancient ceremony was held on tribal land near the Portland Avenue Bridge. The ceremony ended with a wedding. Joe Washington asked for the tribe’s adults to remember what they had seen and to pass the knowledge on to their children. Photo by Tribune staff member Russ Carmack.

Bingo (Gambling) - 6

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Neighbors
Rev. H. 'Shorty' Brown, pastor of Servants of Christ Reformed Church in Federal Way, calls friends and associates, asking for donations to the American Cancer Society. He and several other 'celebrities' were kidnapped and brought to SeaTac Mall in police cars, put behind bars, dressed in striped suits and forced to raise enough money in donations to cover their 'bail' on Tuesday during the Jail and Bail fundraiser.
Carrie Robertson/photo

Bingo (Gambling) - 7

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Donna Halliburton scans her card for the called number during the Children's Industrial Home Bingo Friday afternoon. The board above her shows which numbers have been called and the TV screen shows which number will be the next one called.
Photo by Joe Giron

Hawthorne Neighborhood (Hawthorne District) - 3

This residence was one of the homes moved to make way for building the sports convention center in the Hawthorne neighborhood. Hunsaker’s House Movers of Silverdale placed the home on a barge. It will travel to a new neighborhood called Gorst in Bremerton and be resold. Photo by staff member Russ Carmack.


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Some Hawthorne homes were moved - this one by sea.

Hawthorne Neighborhood (Hawthorne District) - 4

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--House-Moving: "On-Abridged" Version-- Motorists on Interstate-5 near Tacoma had an unusual view Monday as this four-plex passed above them on a freeway overpass. The building was being moved from Tacoma's Hawthorne district, where a new sports-convention center will be built, to a vacant lot a few blocks up the street. Tacoma, WA, June 2, 1981
Freeway drivers gawked as an apartment trundled by. Tacoma, WA, April 17, 1983

Indians, Puyallup (General) - 20

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Indians, Puyallup


Employees of the Puyallup tribe’s fish hatchery released young trout into a tributary of the Puyallup river leading the trout to the Puget Sound and eventually the Pacific Ocean. The trout were around a year old and had been raised by the Puyallup Tribe at the tribal hatchery on Pioneer Way West. The Puyallup Tribe obtained the trout from the Quinault Tribe and the fish are the Quinault River steelhead. Photo by Tribune staff member Bob Rudsit.

Baarsma, William H. (Tacoma) - 4

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ATLANTA July 19--WHIPPING UP THE VOTES--Delegate Bill Baarsma of Tacoma, Washington, counts votes while on the phone. He handles communications for his delegation and is the whip. Action was during the Monday night session of the Democratic National Convention (AP LaserPhoto/Eric Risberg) 1988

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Baarsma, William

Indians, Puyallup (General) - 22

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Nets Salmon


Puyallup Tribal member Mike Turnipseed fished near the Burlington Northern Railroad bridge in defiance of a court order and warnings of arrest by Game and Fisheries department officers. Superior Court Judge Charles T. Wright modified a temporary restraining order preventing Game and Fisheries department officers from making arrests or seizing gill nets. Wright’s actions limited fishing to Frank’s Landing on the Nisqually and only allowed two Native Americans to fish there: Suzette Bridges Mills and William Frank Jr.

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