ca. 1946. Turner Richards Studio, commercial photographers, photographs of the Richards family. Two young boys, one wearing a sailors hat and holding a puppy, sitting on a fabric covered sofa in a paneled room. Photograph is believed to be of two of the sons of Helen Richards Koski and her husband William.

Richards, Turner--Family; Turner Richards Studio (Tacoma); Photographers--Tacoma; Photographic studios--Tacoma; Boys--Tacoma--1940-1950; Richards Commercial Photo Service (Tacoma); Koski, William--Family;

ca.1946. Turner Richards Studio, photograph of the studio and the Koski-Richards family. Sitting of the couch are William Koski and his wife Helen Richards-Koski. Children petting the family dog are Bob (sitting in William's lap), Jerry (in the white shirt), Patricia, and Bill (wearing the sailor's hat). The family home was at 103 East Rd.

Richards, Turner--Family; Turner Richards Studio (Tacoma); Photographers--Tacoma; Photographic studios--Tacoma; Richards Commercial Photo Service (Tacoma); Koski, William--Family;

ca. 1946. Turner Richards Studio, commercial photographers, portraits of the Richards family. Ed and Margaret Richards with daughter Nancy. Ed Richards was one of four brothers active in the family business. The studio was founded in 1921 by 19 year old Turner Richards. He was later joined by brothers Bob, Ed and Nelson.

Richards, Turner--Family; Turner Richards Studio (Tacoma); Photographers--Tacoma; Photographic studios--Tacoma; Richards, Nancy; Richards, Ed; Richards, Margaret; Richards Commercial Photo Service (Tacoma);

ca. 1946. Turner Richards Studio, commercial photographers, portraits of the Richards family. Profile photograph of Nelson Richards, one of the four active owners of the Richards Studio. Prior to its closure in 1980, Richards Studio was the premier commercial and studio photographer in the Puget Sound area. The studio was established in 1921 by 19 year old Turner Richards. Three of the Richards brothers, Bob, Ed and Nelson, plus various other family members participated in the business. The family's interest in photography dated back to father Paul Richards and uncle Byron Aldrich who in 1898 were some of Tacoma's earliest photographers.

Richards, Turner--Family; Turner Richards Studio (Tacoma); Photographers--Tacoma; Photographic studios--Tacoma; Richards, Nelson; Richards Commercial Photo Service (Tacoma);

ca. 1946. Close-up view of dew-dripped rose in full bloom at the Wayne W. Keyes gardens, circa 1946. The Keyes property, consisting of 8 1/2 acres in the Lakes District, contained extensive lawns and gardens and would occasionally be open for tours benefiting charitable causes. Mr. Keyes was a prominent attorney in Tacoma for many years and his wife, Bernice, known for her business and civic endeavors.

Roses--Lakewood; Gardens--Lakewood;

Three school children in their school room. Two girls and a boy are having fun together. One girl and the boy are seated at school desks while the other girl stands holding a pencil and paper.

School children--Tacoma--1940-1950;

On the first day of school in 1946, Mary Brady's dog, Tippy followed her to Washington School, 3701 No. 26th Street. Mary, 9, a fourth grade student, had to explain that summer vacation was over for the year, and send Tippy home. (T.Times, 9/4/1946, p.1)

School children--Tacoma--1940-1950; Brady, Mary Louise; Dogs--Tacoma--1940-1950; Public schools--Tacoma--1940-1950; Washington School (Tacoma);

ca. 1946. This lovely two-story, ivy-covered building with dormers and cupola was owned by attorney Wayne W. Keyes and wife Bernice. It was not, however, their residence but a stable for their horses. The Keyes' stable was located at 11437 Gravelly Lake Dr. S.W. in the Lakes District and was built by them to hold their riding and show horses.

Stables--Lakewood;

Tacoma Boat Building. At the time of this July 27, 1946 photograph, Tacoma Boat Building was nearing completion of "West Point," their first all-steel tuna clipper. She was launched August 17, 1946, and christened by Christine Jangaard. The vessel is 112 feet by 26 1/2 feet, powered by a 675 hp Cooper-Bessemer engine. TPL-8906

Tacoma Boat Building Co., Inc. (Tacoma); Waterfronts--Tacoma--1940-1950; Piers & wharves--Tacoma; Boat & ship industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Fishing boats--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Taken for Tacoma Boat Building Company. This shot shows the waterfront adjacent to the Tacoma Boat Building facility. Debris is caught in the water and it looks cloudy. At this time Tacoma Boat is working on a contract for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration for nine 85 foot combination purse seiner drag boats, five steel and four wood. (T.Times, 8/21/1946, p.5) TPL-6534

Waterfronts--Tacoma--1940-1950; Tacoma Boat Building Co., Inc. (Tacoma);

Taken for Tacoma Boat Building Company. A view of the water and waterfront adjacent to the Tacoma Boat Building Company along City Waterway. Some plant material or other substance is floating on the water. TPL-6535

Waterfronts--Tacoma--1940-1950; Tacoma Boat Building Co., Inc. (Tacoma);

Flavel ("Bizz") Beattie-Henrietta Foss wedding. Miss Henrietta Foss and her four attendants: Marion Osgood, Joan Barber, Bettye Wilbur, and Donna Smith, stand on the steps at the altar. The bridesmaids hold bouquets of mums and the bride's train is spread out down the steps. The bride's bouquet is made of white spider chrysanthemums and ivy leaves. The wedding took place at Christ Episcopal Church. (T.Times, 9/28/1946, p.7)

Weddings--Tacoma--1940-1950; Wedding costume--1940-1950; Brides--1940-1950; Foss, Henrietta--Marriage; Barber, Joan; Smith, Donna Jean; Wilbur, Bettye; Osgood, Marion; Foss, Henry O.--Family;

Gyro Club District Convention. New district officers were elected over the three-day convention of Gyro Club District Number 4 held in Tacoma in August of 1946. L-R: Greg Yorke, Fred Hawes, Pat Dunn, John MacGillivray and Davis M. (Sandy) Wood. Fred Hawes of Victoria, B.C., was elected governor. D.M. (Sandy) Wood of Tacoma was chosen as Lt. governor. (T.Times, 8/12/1946, p.5; TNT 8-10-46, p. 1-article )

Yorke, Greg; Hawes, Fred; Dunn, Pat; MacGillivray, John; Wood, Davis M.; Gyro Club (Tacoma); Clubs--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Air Reduction Sales Co., an oxygen producer. Four tanks, two smaller than the others, stand side-by-side. Shut-off valves, faucets, pipes, guages and a hose are attached to the tanks. The smallest pipes lead through the floor to another location.

Air Reduction Sales Co. (Tacoma); Factories--Tacoma;

Packerd Sterling Company. A small, portable barbecue grill with a hand-operated rotisserie made by Packerd Sterling, Master Products.

Barbecue grills;

Geiger's Central Market, fixtures for Reed's Cabinets & Fixtures. Interior of the grocery store. Four members of the staff stand in the center of a produce stand filled with melons, fruits, and other produce. Shoppers is the background moved while the camera lens was open so they appear as shadows. Reed's Cabinet & Fixture Shop took over a 50' x 90' surplus government warehouse at 1751 Center Street and specialized in store fixtures, show cases, walk-in boxes and other commercial fittings. (T.Times, 8/8/1946, p.8; 8/14/1946, p.5)

Grocery stores--Tacoma--1940-1950; Geiger's Central Market (Tacoma); Farm produce;

Rothermel News Agency. A very well stocked news stand sells comic books for 13 cents each. They have Bantam Books for 25 cents. Magazines including Real Story, Life Experiences, Post, Colliers and Movie Life fill the shelves. A lunch counter is behind the magazine racks and canned goods are displayed against the back wall. Rothermel News Agency was a wholesale news dealer in Tacoma.

Newspaper vendors--Tacoma--1940-1950; Periodicals; Variety stores--Tacoma--1940-1950; Comic books;

Tacoma Metal Products. "Little Chef", a miniature electric stove. The oven door has a dial for reading the temperature on this toy oven. "It Cooks, It Bakes, It's Safe" were advertised on the wrapping for this toy. During 1948 three models were manufactured: the deluxe model with 2 ovens that actually baked at 375 degrees, and two non-heating gas stoves. These toy stoves were known in their eastern markets as "the Tacoma stoves".

Toys; Tacoma Metal Products Co., Inc. (Tacoma); Metalwork--Tacoma; Toy industry--Tacoma;

ca. 1946. Exterior view of proposal by Frank Lloyd Wright of house for Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey L. Griggs. The roof shown is sloping with steps. Carport is on the far left. Griggs, scion of a prominent lumber family, had contacted noted architect Wright in late November of 1945 and met with him at his Arizona manor, Taliesin West, in March of 1946. Wright completed preliminary architectural plans by mid-April of that year and was paid his drawing fee of $300 on May 8, 1946. Although Griggs started construction in the summer of 1946, bad weather and indecisiveness regarding the home's exterior composition brought the construction to a halt. It would not be resumed until January of 1953 when Griggs contacted young local architect Alan Liddle who would carefully follow Wright's preliminary plan and concept. Griggs had finally decided to proceed with his original specification of concrete block and cedar walls. The home would be completed in the fall of 1954 and the Griggs family moved in around Christmas. Frank Lloyd Wright had called the design a "Northern Timber House" on one of his preliminary perspective drawings and after the home was completed said, "it turned out to be one of my best children...." (NWR 979C723C Winter 1996-97, p. 39-44)

Architectural drawings; Griggs, Chauncey L.--Homes & haunts;

ca. 1946. Copy of photomontage showing U.S. Congressman John Coffee surrounded by favorable newspaper clippings. Coffee was defeated in November, 1946, by Republican challenger Thor Tollefson. John Coffee was a native of Tacoma and had received degrees from the University of Washington and Yale University. He was a five-term congressman who was first elected in November, 1936. After his defeat by Thor Tollefson, John Coffee ran twice more for Congress but was not elected. Photo used for ad in T. Times on 7/3/46. Ordered by Coffee Campaign, 9/27/1946. ALBUM 4.

Coffee, John; Political elections--Tacoma--1940-1950; Legislators--Washington--1940-1950; Clippings;

This photograph of Murphy's at 938 Pacific Avenue was taken on December 6, 1946. Nine months earlier, on March 28th, Murphy's was one of seven tavens in Tacoma subjected to a surprise gambling raid by appoximately forty Tacoma policemen. The raids, which happened without orders from the chief of police, resulted in 54 people being arrested for illegal gambling. (TNT 3-30-1946 p.1)

Bars--Tacoma--1940-1950; Taverns (Inns)--Tacoma--1940-1950; Restaurants--Tacoma--1940-1950; Beer halls--Tacoma--1940-1950; Murphy's (Tacoma); Electric signs--Tacoma--1940-1950; City & town life--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Bellarmine High School football team at the scrimmage line.

Bellarmine High School (Tacoma); Football players--Tacoma--1940-1950; Church schools--Tacoma;

Pacific Boat Building Company, the "Sun Rocket". The newly launched boat still has an American flag draped over her bow while tied to a dock.

Boats; Boat & ship industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Pacific Boat Building Co. (Tacoma); Waterfronts--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Bill Herdman, Shrine bowling team. The five team members, L-R, John Pasnick, Bill Farrar, Henry Wiley, Ben Overdahl and Tony Vetter, listen while Bill Herdman, kneeling, provides encouragement. The back of the team's shirts are embroidered with "Afifi, Tacoma" and their insignia. The team members wear their fez. (T.Times, 12/12/1946, p.18)

Bowlers--Tacoma--1940-1950; Men--Clubs--Tacoma; Fraternal organizations--Tacoma--1940-1950; Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine (Tacoma); Herdman, Bill; Pasnick, John; Farrar, Bill; Wiley, Henry; Overdahl, Ben; Vetter, Tony;

O'Connell, Ragan & Richardson, advertising agency. The exterior of a warehouse. Scaffolding is set against the end of the building. Cars are parked in the snowy parking lot.

Buildings--Tacoma--1940-1950; Automobiles--Tacoma--1940-1950; Parking lots--Tacoma--1940-1950; Snow--Tacoma--1940-1950; ;

Nearly the entire Tacoma police department turned out for the funeral of Vincent J. Hansen held on November 27, 1946 at the C.C. Mellinger Company mortuary, 510 Tacoma Avenue South. The 35 year old patrolman's death was caused by a kidney ailment resulting from yellow fever which he contracted while fighting overseas during WWII. He served 5 years in the army before he and his family moved to Tacoma. He joined the police force in November 1945 and was recently assigned to the motor division. (T.Times, 11/29/1946, p.5) TPL-9601

C.C. Mellinger Funeral Directors (Tacoma); Funerary facilities--Tacoma--1940-1950; Funeral rites & ceremonies--Tacoma--1940-1950; Death--Tacoma; Tacoma Police Department (Tacoma); Automobiles--Tacoma--1940-1950; Motorcycles--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Senator-elect Harry Cain and Washington State piano virtuoso Dorothy Helen Eustis. Miss Eustis tickles the keyboards while former Tacoma mayor Harry P. Cain grins in this November 16, 1946, photograph. Miss Eustis was scheduled to give a recital at the Lakewood Theater on Monday, November 18th, but the show had to be canceled due to a heavy snowstorm. She had visited Madigan Hospital on the day of her arrival in Tacoma, November 16th, and played for hospital patients. Her Lakewood concert would have been her only Northwest appearance of the year. Miss Eustis would have a storied career, performing with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, pianist Jose Iturbi, and conductor Leopold Stokowski, and appearing in several movies. By the mid-1990's, she was a bedridden patient in a Venice, Italy, hospital where her nearly mute condition made identification of her past difficult. According to a March 22, 1995, Los Angeles Times article, she was a mystery patient with no known family, ignored by the American government and championed only by an Italian friend and the doctors who refused to evict her from her unpaid hospital bed. The American consulate finally offered to repatriate her nineteen months after she had arrived at the hospital but she would end her days in a Little Sisters of the Poor convent nursing home in Florence. Miss Eustis died on May 20, 2001. ALBUM 13. (TNT 11-18-46, p. 1) {Additional information on Miss Eustis provided by her niece, Barbara E. Cooper}

Cain, Harry P., 1906-1979; Mayors--Tacoma--1940-1950; Eustis, Dorothy Helen; Pianos;

Marjorie Cain, wife of Senator-elect Harry P. Cain, receives a corsage from Mrs. C.A. Strong during a November 15, 1946, banquet at Clover Park High School given by Interlaaken neighbors to honor the couple. Harry P. Cain was the former mayor of Tacoma and had served in the U.S. Army during WWII. ALBUM 13.

Cain, Marjorie Dils, 1908-1994; Strong, C.A.; Banquets--Tacoma--1940-1950; Hats--1940-1950;

Club of Hearts committee group. Eight women pose in the living room of a residence. A tapestry hangs on the wall behind the divan.

Clubwomen--Tacoma--1940-1950; Club of Hearts (Tacoma); Clubs--Tacoma--1940-1950; Living rooms--Tacoma--1940-1950; Tapestries;

A contest was held in 1946 at the College of Puget Sound (now U.P.S.) to select the best look alikes for "Daisy Mae" and "Lil Abner" for the Sadie Hawkins Day dance that was held on campus on November 2. The winners of the contest were Gwen Roberts (center left) and Harold "Hal" Wolf (her dance partner), both freshmen. Sadie Hawkins Day was created by the cartoonist Al Capp and made its debut in his Lil Abner strip on November 15,1937. By 1939 over 200 colleges were holding Sadie Hawkins Day events. TPL-9200

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Dance parties--Tacoma--1940-1950; Dancers--Tacoma--1940-1950; Roberts, Gwen; Wolf, Hal; Costumes;