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)