ca. 1929. John and Hazel Hewitt house. Exterior view of rear of house and back yard. Brick exterior painted white. Manicured garden includes lawn, several trees, garden house, and concrete and stone paths. Architects: Delano & Aldrich. (WSHS) filed as 1-3

Hewitt, John J.--Homes & haunts; Estates--Tacoma; Houses--Tacoma--1920-1930; Gardens--Tacoma;

ca. 1929. John and Hazel Hewitt house. View of back yard, garage and guest cottage, trees, awning covered path leading to steps. Brick exterior of buildings painted white. (WSHS) filed as 1-4

Hewitt, John J.--Homes & haunts; Estates--Tacoma; Houses--Tacoma--1920-1930;

ca. 1929. John and Hazel Hewitt house. Exterior view of rear of house showing three fireplaces, brick garden wall, brick upper patio, and landscape. Delano & Aldrich, principal architects, with Sutton, Whitney and Dugan, associate architects in Tacoma. (WSHS) filed as 1-5

Hewitt, John J.--Homes & haunts; Estates--Tacoma; Houses--Tacoma--1920-1930;

ca. 1929. John and Hazel Hewitt house. Exterior view of house and landscape. Brick exterior painted white. Landscape includes a cluster of trees, boxwood hedge, lawn, and walkways. (WSHS) filed as 1-6

Hewitt, John J.--Homes & haunts; Estates--Tacoma; Houses--Tacoma--1920-1930;

ca. 1929. David and Sarah Scott house, "Belleterre." Side and front view of mansion showing slate roof and decorative emblems above dormer windows. A mature evergreen stretches upward toward the fireplace on end wall. Other fireplaces appear to the left of the entrance. (WSHS, filed as 12-7)

Scott, David C.--Homes & haunts; Estates--Lakewood; Gardens--Lakewood;

ca. 1929. Harry L. and Alpharetta Brown house. Exterior view of rear of house overlooking a large concrete tennis court and landscape. Three-story, Tudor-style house with stuccoed exterior. Clothes line over lawn is accessible from back door. Mr. Brown was one of the founders of the Brown & Haley Candy Co. This English style home was built for him in 1925 and designed by E.J. Bresemann. (photograph also numbered as HG 3 image 2, also in WSHS as 3-2)

Brown, Harry--Homes & haunts; Brown & Haley (Tacoma); Houses--Tacoma--1920-1930;

ca. 1929. Harry L. and Alpharetta Brown house. Exterior view of front and side of three-story house. Side bay features upper balustraded deck off double-doors. The English style home was built in 1925 for Mr. Brown and designed by E.J. Bresemann, architect. Brown's candy recipes spurred the founding of Brown & Haley, Inc., now world-renowned confectioners. (photograph also numbered HG 3 image 5; also in WSHS as 3-5)

Brown, Harry--Homes & haunts; Brown & Haley (Tacoma); Houses--Tacoma--1920-1930;

ca. 1929. Pilot Harold Bromley and his wife and son prior to his failed July 28, 1929 attempt at a trans Pacific Tacoma to Tokyo flight. His son was approximately six years old at the time of this picture. Harold Bromley was born on November 10, 1898 in Victoria, B.C. As a teenager, he enlisted in the Canadian army and served as a machine gunner in World War I. He joined a Canadian unit of the Royal Air Force and made his first solo flight just as the war ended. He fell in love with flying. After a career as a barnstormer and stunt pilot, he settled in Olympia and operated a flying school in Tacoma in the twenties. He also worked as a test pilot for Lockheed in Burbank, California. Tacoma businessmen, headed by Canadian-born John Buffelen, financed numerous attempts by Bromley to fly across the Pacific. After two years and faced with the Depression, his Tacoma backers could not afford another flight. Bromley died at the age of 99 in a Palm Desert nursing home. He outlived his first wife and son and enjoyed a varied career as a pilot, aviation inspector, farmer and real estate salesman. BGN-310E (TNT 1/11/1998)

ca. 1929. Herb Fahey, Lockheed test pilot, presents Harold Bromley with a lucky rabbit's foot prior to Bromley's attempt to fly the Lockheed Vega monoplane the "City of Tacoma" from Tacoma to Tokyo. The woman standing between the men is believed to be Bromley's first wife. The rabbit's foot did not give off much good luck since Bromley was blinded by gasoline spewing from overfilled tanks and crashed during his first attempt at the trans Pacific crossing on take off. Fahey was the test pilot on the second "City of Tacoma" which crashed in September of 1929 during testing. Fahey suffered a broken arm and skull fractures. He recovered but was killed months later test piloting another Lockheed plane. BGN-019

ca. 1929. The first "City of Tacoma" monoplane poised at the top of a ramp designed to give the plane more momentum on take off. On July 28, 1929, Harold Bromley intended to enter the history books as the first pilot to fly solo and nonstop from Tacoma to Tokyo. The early dawn flight was scheduled to take off from Tacoma Field, an area that is now part of McChord Air Force base. The large orange Vega crashed on takeoff. BGN-310K

ca. 1929. Herb Fahey, Lockheed test pilot, presents Harold Bromley with his lucky rabbit's foot prior to Bromley's attempt to pilot the Lockheed Vega "City of Tacoma," shown in the background, from Tacoma to Tokyo. The monoplane crashed on take off July 28, 1929 when the tanks were overfilled and Bromley was blinded by flying gasoline. The plane was insured and Lockheed constructed a new plane, using some of the parts of the original. Fahey was the test pilot when the second plane crashed in September of 1929 during tests in California. Fahey was seriously injured but recovered, only to be killed months later in an unrelated Lockheed crash.

ca. 1929. Conjunction of Pacific Ave., and Commerce, Jefferson and South 17th Streets circa 1929. At the far left edge is the Carlton Hotel, 1552 Jefferson Ave. The building at 1701 Commerce St. (near lower center) was built on the site of the old Northern Pacific Railroad passenger station, dubbed "Villard Depot," which was subsequently moved across the street and demolished in 1909. The Teamsters & Chauffers Hiring Hall occupied the 1701 Commerce St. address from 1928-1977. In the 1500 block of Pacific Ave. (center) are the Hotel Croft and other businesses. Puget Sound National Bank's familiar spire is in the center background.

ca. 1929. Street scene showing east side of Pacific Ave. looking south from 10th Street. Buildings shown include (left to right) First Mutual Savings Bank of Tacoma (1005 Pacific Ave.), Western Union Telegraph Co.& Lindsay Hotel (1007 Pacific Ave.), Bank of California (1011-13 Pacific Ave.), Feeney's Cafe (1017), Washington Building (1019), Peoples Store (1101-07), Bankers Trust Building (1109-13) and Puget Sound Bank (1117-19.) This circa 1929 photograph was one of a series of downtown shots taken on behalf of the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce.

Commercial streets--Tacoma--1920-1930; First Mutual Savings Bank of Tacoma (Tacoma); Western Union Telegraph Co. (Tacoma); Lindsay Hotel (Tacoma); Bank of California National Association (Tacoma);

ca. 1929. In July of 1929, pilot Harold Bromley posed next to his bright orange Lockheed Vega monoplane, named "City of Tacoma". Bromley was planning a solo transcontinental flight from Tacoma to Tokyo, a distance of 4700 miles. His Tacoma financial backers hoped the flight would bring Tacoma the same kind of attention that Charles Lindbergh and the "Spirit of St. Louis" brought to that city. Bromley, however, never made it to Tokyo. His plane crashed on takeoff on July 28, 1929. Two subsequent planes crashed during test flights. A later attempt, in the opposite direction, from Tokyo to Tacoma also ended in failure.

Bromley, Harold; Airplanes--Tacoma--1920-1930; Aeronautics--Tacoma--1920-1930;

ca. 1929. J. Clifford and M. Mae Haley house. Exterior view of three-story house and landscape. Wood-shingle house with cross-gable roof. Mature landscape includes ivy-covered exterior, trees and shrubs. Haley was co-founder of Brown & Haley, Inc. (candy company.) (WSHS)

Haley, J.C.--Homes & haunts;

ca. 1929. J. Clifford and M. Mae Haley garden and back yard. A peaceful setting with canvas lawn swings and wooden chairs looking onto lily pond. Fruit trees, shade tree and lawn. (WSHS)

Haley, J.C.--Homes & haunts; Backyards--Tacoma; Gliders (Outdoor furniture);

ca. 1929. Kitchen in Chester and Anna Thorne mansion on American Lake. Two-door, side-by-side built-in refrigerators. Upper compartments have small freezer section and metal shelving. Lower sections contain three metal shelves.

Thornewood (Lakewood); Estates--Lakewood; Thorne, Chester--Homes & haunts; Refrigerators;

ca. 1929. Gardens at "Belleterre," the Lakewood estate of David C. and Sarah T. Scott. Strips of lawn create broad paths among flower beds and radiate out from a birdbath in the garden, terminating at a concrete bench placed at the end of a strip of lawn. Large trees surround the park-like estate. (filed with WSHS as 12-2)

Scott, David C.--Homes & haunts; Estates--Lakewood; Gardens--Lakewood;

ca. 1929. Gardens at the estate of David C. and Sarah T. Scott, "Belleterre." Strips of lawn create broad paths among perennial flower beds, bursting with the colors of snapdragons, lilies and other flowers, and radiate out from a birdbath in the garden. Large trees surround the park-like estate. Mr. Scott was an executive with Cispus Logging Co. and Scott & Howe Land Co. (filed with WSHS under 12-3)

Scott, David C.--Homes & haunts; Estates--Lakewood; Gardens--Lakewood;

ca. 1929. Residence of Harry L. Brown, of Brown and Haley Candy Company. Residence at 3521 No. Washington designed by Architect E.J. Breseman in 1925. Side view of stucco house with half-timbering on gable. Tennis court in foreground. (Argentum)

Brown, Harry--Homes & haunts; Brown & Haley (Tacoma); Houses--Tacoma--1920-1930;

ca. 1929. Digitized for use by Frye Museum/jg. This painting-like piece is listed as "Kwei Dun" according to the book "A Turbulent Lens." A black and white version can be seen at series VH, image KWEI. The circa 1929 portrait was made of Chinese finger painter Kwei Dun who had traveled to Seattle to study art and architecture at the University of Washington. (Bullock: A Turbulent Lens, p. 107)

Grainy December, 1929, photograph of the U.S.S. Lexington tied up at Baker Dock. After much discussion and negotiation, the U.S. Navy ordered the aircraft carrier to help the City of Tacoma by supplying auxiliary power. Severe drought conditions had rendered hydro plants inoperable and conservation methods employed were simply not enough to stave off a power crisis. The Lexington's monthlong stay would generate enough power for 25% of the city's needs. It allowed the city to turn on its streetlights, store lighting, and resume night shifts. (Tacoma Public Utilities Story: the First 100 Years: 1893-1993, p. 91-93)

U.S.S. Lexington (United States Navy); Aircraft carriers--United States; Power shortages--Tacoma;

This photograph taken in December, 1929, is of the aircraft carrier, U.S.S. Lexington, who came to Tacoma's rescue in an acute power crisis due to severe drought conditions. Power cables run from the ship's generator to a transformer on Baker Dock. About this time rain finally started to fill the lakes necessary for the operation of power plants; with the addition of the Lexington's auxiliary power, Tacoma was able to once again function normally. The Lexington stopped power deliveries to Tacoma on January 16, 1930, and departed for San Francisco the following day. TPL-1857; G71.1-118

U.S.S. Lexington (United States Navy); Aircraft carriers--United States; Power shortages--Tacoma; Piers & wharves--Tacoma--1920-1930;

ca. 1929. Daniel (Dan) Peterson and Ione (last name unknown) were pictured sitting on some large segments of logs and smiling for the camera. It is believed that Mr. Peterson came to Tacoma from Aberdeen when A.A. Star Transfer Co. of Aberdeen acquired the Commercial Truck Co. of Tacoma from owner James Garvin in 1929. The company incorporated as Star Commercial Moving and Storage Co. with J.E. Turnquist as president, J.E. Anderson as vice-president and Dan Peterson as secretary/treasurer. Mr. Peterson was the grandfather of Dan Powell, owner of Star Moving Co. in Tacoma. (photograph courtesy of Dan Powell.) TPL-9837

Peterson, Daniel; Star Commercial Moving and Storage Co. (Tacoma); Moving & storage trade--Tacoma--1920-1930;