ca. 1926. Meat Market interior. Fresh meat case, scale, flowers on counter, "(Red) Rock Cheese - You'll Like Red Rock" sign on wall. (filed with Argentum)
ca. 1926. Emil Ziegler and W.I. Nolting, Proprietors, Stall 16, Crystal Market. Meat Market. For Neils Hansen Manufacturing Company. (filed with Argentum)
Man atop Edwards Fuel Company truck, filling its tank from fuel depot. According to signage on truck, Edwards was the distributor for White Rose fuel. For Davis Motor Company, Diamond T Trucks. (date may be 03-12-1937.) (filed with Argentum)
Davis Motor Truck Company (Tacoma); Trucks--Tacoma--1930-1940; Diamond T trucks; Edwards Fuel Co. (Tacoma); Fuel;
ca. 1936. Mr. Cooney of Cooney Transfer Company. Upper torso of man in tweed suit with dotted tie, mustache. Likely President Edward C. Cooney, could be V.P. Frank D. (Argentum)
This photograph from 1935 shows the triangle shaped block on the west side of Pacific Avenue that is bounded by South 17th and Jefferson. The General Petroleum Corporation had recently purchased the Depot Service Station that had occupied the block since 1919. They remodeled the building, and put in new pumps - but they kept the name. The Depot Station went through the hands of a number of owners over the years, but it remained standing from 1919 until 2002. This photograph also shows the Carlton and Massasoit Hotels on Jefferson.
Depot Service Station (Tacoma); Commercial streets--Tacoma--1930-1940; Automobile service stations--Tacoma--1930-1940; Gasoline pumps--Tacoma--1930-1940; Carlton Hotel (Tacoma);
ca. 1935. Rowen's Lake City Store, Lakewood, interior view of self service market with many advertising displays. Photograph taken for Younglove Grocery Company. (Argentum)
Rowen's Lake City Store (Lakewood); Grocery stores--Lakewood--1930-1940;
ca. 1937. Griffin Fuel Company truck and driver in front of loading chute of coal bunkers. These are automatic gravity bunkers filled with coal. (filed with Argentum)
Hogan's Fine Foods store exterior at night with active neon signage. Sign in window reads "open every Sunday 11am till 9pm." There are two registers, a meat counter and produce section visible.
Hogan's Fine Foods store exterior at night with active neon signage. Sign in window reads "open every Sunday 11am till 9pm." There are two registers, a meat counter and produce section visible.
ca. 1934. Interior of a Franklin Food Store, circa 1934. The 1934 City Directory lists Franklin Food Stores at 121 No. G St., 602 So. 38th and the Crystal Palace Public Market. View from above shoppers in the grocery store. Long lines wait patiently for the checker. (filed with Argentum)
Franklin Food Stores (Tacoma); Grocery stores--Tacoma--1930-1940;
ca. 1934. Interior of the Fifteen-Eighteen Cabaret at 1518 Pacific Avenue. The club was owned by Louie DiDent and featured "wine and dine" and "entertainment that is different." Photograph pictures a crowd of people drinking beer at tables and a woman entertainer on stage at the front of room. Waiters in white jackets serve the tables.
In this photograph from February 1935, an unidentified shoemaker pounds nails into the sole of a leather high-top work shoe or hiking boot at his workbench in the Bone Dry Manufacturing Company building at 2115 Pacific Avenue. Bone Dry manufactured top quality boots in Tacoma for nearly 40 years. Built in 1919, the Bone Dry building, now occupied by McGranahan Architects, still reveals its history in the paths wore in its wooden floors by several generations of cobblers and pattern cutters.
In February of 1935 an unidentified shoemaker at the Bone Dry Shoe Manufacturing Company, 2115 Pacific Avenue, used a sharp blade attached to his index finger to cut the leather for a high-top work shoe or boot. The blade is attached to the index finger of his right hand with a leather band. Bone Dry manufactured top quality boots in Tacoma for nearly 40 years. In 1943 their Paul Bunyan Pack Boot, which was "waterproof as a glass jar and warm as a fur-lined overcoat" sold at Abercrombie & Fitch for $25 per pair. Built in 1919, the Bone Dry building became the home to McGranahan Architects in 2000.
Bone Dry Shoe Manufacturing Company. Shoe maker at stamping machine places iron sole mold on piece of leather between press. Other molds sit on shelf below "Master Wood Welded Brand" maple block.
Bone Dry Shoe Manufacturing Company. Leather pieces for high-top work shoes or hiking boots are stitched by women and men shoe makers at industrial sewing machines in large room of factory. TPL-1687
Bone Dry Shoe Manufacturing Company. Shoe maker working at machinery with vise and handles to hold leather high-top work shoes or hiking boots which the company specialized in. He is affixing side leather onto the sole.
ca. 1935. Two men shaking hands, with another watching, by streamlined aerodynamic Texaco oil truck in front of Davis Motor Truck Company. Davis Motor Co. handled Diamond T trucks. (filed with Argentum)
Davis Motor Truck Company (Tacoma); Trucks--Tacoma--1930-1940; Diamond T trucks;
ca. 1935. Two men standing beside a "Diamond T" W.D. Wade contract carrier truck in front of Davis Motor Truck Company. W.D. Wade was based out of Westport Washington. Davis Motor Co. manufactured Diamond T trucks. (filed with Argentum)
Davis Motor Truck Company (Tacoma); Trucks--Tacoma--1930-1940; Diamond T trucks;
Charles W. Greening, manager of the Lincoln Branch Puget Sound National Bank of Tacoma, stands behind the bank counter and discusses recent bank robberies. He became a hero when he pursued and shot a young bandit who held up his bank January 13th, 1937. The wounded robber was arrested when he sought medical attention in Spokane. Mr. Greening was later rewarded with a watch by the bank's insurance company. (T. Times 11/11/1937, pg. 13)
Puget Sound National Bank (Tacoma); Banks--Tacoma; Greening, Charles W.;
