2 images. Public Market Bldg. R.E. Anderson, builder Potter & Merrill, arch. -site includes 402-10 So. 11th St. -bldg. was the location of Tacoma's first Mars Candy Manufacturing Co. factory c.1913
TDL 11/21/1909 p.45 Plans sanitary public market (mentions that market began 18 months earlier)
TDL 12/12/1909 p.48 Market to be ready in April
TDL 6/26/1910 p.37 ... is proving popular
TDL 12/18/1910 p.41 (il)
TDL 9/28/1913 p.14 Brighter, better public market
TDL 9/15/1935 p.B9 Downtown mart being renovated
TNT 9/30/1947 p.7 Grand opening (the Derby Club opens at 410 So. 11th St.) (remodeling by Palmer Steiro, contr.)
TNT 10/14/1949 p.25 Beautiful new Derby Club in grand opening Friday evening (remodeling by Carroll Construction Co. contr.) (full page ad) (interior il)
TNT 3/28/1950 p.1 Derby Club is raided
TNT 7/3/1950 p.11 Club robbed of $385
TNT 9/20/1959 p.A1 Local industry adds two clothing concerns (interior il of Item House at 404 So. 11th St.) 979.77 P119P Oct. 1924 p.60 (il of the Cosy Hat Shop at 406 So. 11th St.)
2 images. Mottau Bldg. Mrs. Robert Mottau, builder Russell & Lance, arch. Macdonald Building Co., contr. -one story cement -Carrara glass -bldg. later combined with bldg. at 1106-08 Martin Luther King Jr. Way -demolished in Aug. 2000 -plans at TPL -occupants included: Totem Food Store No.5, McMillan Drug Store, K Street Pharmacy, Paulson's Radio & Appliances, Harold Meyer Drugs SEE ALSO: 1106-08 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. WAY
TDL 7/2/1933 p.B6 $15,000 building for 11th and K
TDL 8/20/1933 p.B5 (sketch)
TNT 10/6/1933 p.13 Food department store will open (sketch)
TDL 8/19/1934 p.B9 K St. building is leased (to McMillan Drug Store)
TDL 9/9/1934 p.B9 Pharmacy in new home (interior il of the K Street Pharmacy)
TNT 4/7/1939 p.9 (il of Totem Food Store)
TNT 11/16/1939 p.22 (il of Totem Food Store) T.Times 2/1/1940 Totem stores celebrate anniversary (il)
TNT 4/30/1940 p.6 (il of Totem Food Store)
TNT 4/22/1941 p.9 Officially open today (il of Paulson's Radio & Appliances Store)
TNT 8/24/1941 p.C12 Paulson's new store (interior il)
TNT 8/13/1944 p.A4 (permit for balcony taken by Harold Meyer Drug)
TNT 9/15/1944 p.8 New store is opening (interior il of Harold Meyer Savon Drug Store)
TNT 10/22/1947 p.11,12 Something new on "K" Street; Harold Meyer's Professional Prescription Pharmacy (at 1110 So. 11th St.)
TNT 12/1/1948 p.16-19 Two fine new shops (Paulco Shoes and the Juvenile Shop take space in bldg.)
TNT 5/15/1949 p.B12 Dr. Charles Green expands practice; opens new optometric office (interior il of 1104 So. 11th St.)
TNT 7/5/1951 p.A9 (ad for appearance by Captain Hadacol)
TNT 1/29/1953 p.A11 Harold Meyer Drug opens ultra-modern pharmacy on Friday (interior il of Harold Meyer's Prescription Pharmacy at 1110 So. 11th St.)
TNT 8/17/1955 p.C1 Grand opening! (of the Music Mezzanine)
TNT 12/4/1956 p.25 Grand opening (il of employees)
TNT 9/27/1961 p.A8,A9 Meyer store plans grand reopening (two adjacent stores added, remodeling) (il)
TNT 10/12/1994 p.D1 Hilltop publisher seeks financing to develop retail center with food court, shops, office (sketch of proposed remodeling for Virginia Taylor)
TNT 8/18/1999 p.B1 Another Hilltop housing project in the works; senior apartment-retail remodel proposed for building ... T.Weekly 8/11/200 p.3 Hilltop store being converted to housing for low-income senior citizens (remodeliing project evolved into new bldg. construction and this bldg. was demolished)
8 images. Merchants National Bank Proctor & Dennis, arch. Barrett & Herod, contr. -site includes 1101-03 Commerce St., 204 So. 11th St. -renamed the Equitable Bldg. c.1897 after the Equitable Life Assurance Society moved into the bldg. -partial plans at TPL
TNT 12/14/1938 p.2 New store is ready; remodeled Crown Drug ... (il) ----- Pacific First Federal Savings & Loan Assoc.
TNT 6/14/1939 p.4 (il)
TNT 4/30/1940 p.9 Nationally recognized (il)
TNT 9/5/1940 p.9 Pioneer shoe repair shop is reopened (Carlsons's Shoe Repair at 208 So. 11th St.)
TNT 9/29/1948 p.1 Runaway auto injuries 3 racing down 11th St. hill (il)
TNT 5/9/1949 p.1 Lofty peril comes down (cornice damaged in earthquake removed) (il)
TNT 7/29/1949 p.22 32,000 pounds of door (interior il of vault)
TNT 9/22/1949 p.C2,C3 Horlucks will open new fountain lunch (interior il of Horluck's Fountain Lunch at 1104 Pacific Ave.)
TNT 11/29/1949 p.9 Many innovations in safe deposit vaults; only Tacoma escalator (remodeling by Lea, Pearson & Richards, arch.) (first escalator in Tacoma, "radiant germicidal lighting") (interior il)
TNT 4/23/1953 Our new clock ("first revolving clock of its kind on the Pacific Coast") (sketch of street clock)
TNT 4/29/1953 p.B7 (permit for neon sign)
TNT 11/29/1955 p.9 Auto crashes into building
TNT 12/12/1955 p.15 Computer first of kind here (receives a Univac 120 computer) (il)
TNT 10/8/1959 p.A10 Crashed car hits building
TNT 10/17/1963 p.A3 Former home of 1st Federal being demolished
TNT 11/17/1963 p.C14 Making way for progress (il of demolition)
TDL 6/7/1929 p.1 New $125,000 apartment announced (sketch)
TDL 7/28/1929 p.D8 New apartment for Yakima Ave.
TDL 9/15/1929 p.D10 (mention)
TDL 1/5/1930 p.B5 New apartment house is ready p.D3 (full page ad) (il)
TNT 10/8/1957 p.4 Purse stole in May found
TNT 6/10/1990 Troublemaker tenant won't stand for threats of eviction ----- Roosevelt Towers
TNT 7/16/1996 p.B1 Two men found dead in Hilltop apartment
TNT 8/10/1996 p.B4 Renovated Roosevelt Towers a test case for residental use in downtown Tacoma (bldg. converted into "retirement community" by Chris Nyhus) (interior il)
TNT 3/14/2001 p.B1 When the Stars and Stripes wear out, we have a duty to do
2 images. Pacific First Federal Savings & Loan Assoc. Lea, Pearson & Richards, arch. Strom Construction Co., Inc., contr. Chaffee-Zumwalt, landscape arch.
TNT 3/1/1959 p.A1 New building to go up at Bernice site
TNT 1/12/1961 p.1 Pacific First Federal will erect building
TNT 1/15/1961 p.A1 $1,800,000 in construction planned here (sketch)
TNT 2/14/1962 p.B6 Strom wins $1 million new building job
TNT 7/23/1962 p.1 Iron workers returning to projects here (il)
TNT 9/20/1964 Pacific First's new home called a "lily"
TNT 9/27/1964 (Grand Opening Suppl.)
TNT 12/16/1964 p.B5 Vander Ende presented with award
TNT 6/10/1965 p.C7 Possible tragedy prevented (il)
TNT 5/4/1967 p.B2 Burglars take $1,380 in cash from tavern (Shamrock Tavern at 1108 Pacific Ave.)
TNT 7/15/1974 p.A3 Energetic fountain leaves downtown (bronze fountain installed by artist Geo. Tsutakawa in 1964 to be moved to Pacific First Federal's new Lakewood branch near Villa Plaza at 10011 Gravelly Lake Dr. S.W. - to be replaced with "dandelion" fountain) 332.32 P119Y (il) ----- Washington Mutual Bank
TNT 8/22/1995 p.B4 ... clock Doc still has time on his hands (rotating clock installed on bldg. c.1980 by Ed "Doc" Farrens)
TNT 12/13/1996 p.A1 Safe after night in the vault 332.1 M823F 332.32 G8847L
Clover Park High School Charles V. Rueger, arch. Jos. Potucek, contr.
TDL 6/20/1937 p.1 Levy asked for Lakes high school
TNT 7/1/1937 p.25 Start soon on school
TNT 8/20/1937 p.8 (sketch)
TNT 9/15/1937 p.1 ... work is started (il of ground breaking)
TNT 1/19/1938 p.3 Open house at school; Clover Park addition to be inspected Thursday
TNT 1/21/1938 p.3 Building inspected
TNT 5/22/1938 p.A14 (mention)
TNT 5/17/1939 p.17 They'll dedicate Walter J. Thompson Field (il)
TNT 5/24/1940 p.19 Seats in the shade (il of new grandstand on Walter J. Thompson Field)
TNT 2/6/1941 p.6 Shop for Clover Park; WPA project ...
TNT 3/13/1941 p.5 Cornerstone at Clover Park (for new shop bldg.) (il)
TNT 5/8/1941 p.1 Inspect new school wing (Charles Rueger, arch. and Peder Steiro, contr.) (il)
TNT 7/10/1942 p.5 Clover Park work begun (addition by Charles & Clarence Rueger, arch. and Peder Steiro, contr.) (il)
TNT 11/23/1942 p.11 Inspect school job (il of addition under construction) T.Times 11/23/1943 Clover Park School District project inspected by Coffee (addition by Charles & Clarence Rueger, arch. and Steiro & Hansen, contr.) (il under construction)
TNT 2/4/1943 p.1 New Clover Park vocational training center is all ready in use
TNT 9/20/1943 p.9 Ready to serve (interior il of new cafeteria by Charles & Clarence Rueger, arch.)
TNT 4/28/1947 p.1 Workman's fall is fatal (killed while working on a new industrial arts shop)
Clover Park Intermediate School Hill & Mock, arch. -T-shape design -"first rural intermediate school in state" -bldg. later used as part of the Clover Park High School complex
TDL 4/22/1928 p.A13 Rural junior high school is planned here (sketch)
TDL 6/29/1928 p.11 (il of cornerstone ceremony)
TDL 8/30/1928 p.12 New junior high near completion
Clover Park Junior High School Clover Park School District, builder Charles V. Rueger, arch. Standard Construction Co., contr. -reinforced concrete and brick -dedicated 10/22/1953
