The Lister table on steps of Ferry Museum. The beautiful inlaid table was made by J. H. Lister in 1900 when he was 70 years old. It contains 5209 individually cut and fitted pieces, 4163 of which are in the top. The table was donated to the Washington State Historical Society by Mr. Lister's son, Alfred, on the 50th anniversary of the immigrant family's arrival in Tacoma. The Listers established Standard Iron Works on East 23rd St. and the sons went on to hold important government and banking positions. (T. Times 10/13/1934, pg. 9)

Washington State Historical Society (Tacoma); Galleries & museums--Tacoma--1930-1940; Ferry Museum (Tacoma); Antiques;

Northwest (Lawn) Bowling Team and the team from the British cruiser Danae in Wright Park, Tacoma. Portrait of fourteen men, some in British naval uniforms. Standing, left to right, are W. Chawn- Chief Petty Officer, Tom Skinner, William Reid, F. Webb- leading seaman, C. Baker- Chief Petty Officer, John Wood, A.S. Drummond, E. McNeal, S. Matheau and E.L. Smith. Kneeling are Daniel Heally- Chief Petty Officer, J.A. Oliver, H.S. Baldson- leading seaman and R.B. Eaddie. "Bowls" is a game long played in Great Britain, Canada and the eastern US. Its popularity has been growing in the Northwest over the last 2 years. (T. Times 9/15/1934, pg. 5)

Bowling--Tacoma; Bowlers--Tacoma; Parks--Tacoma--1930-1940; Wright Park (Tacoma); Northwest Bowling Team (Tacoma);

ca. 1934. Two girls hard at work in the garden preparing mud pies, small cake molds of mud on the top of cardboard boxes. The older girl mixes the ingredients in a plaid-patterned ceramic bowl while the younger child places the mixture in the molds. Ball canning jar serves as a vase for accent flowers.

Children playing in mud; Girls--1930-1940; Children cooking;

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. 1935. An almond eyed little girl watches the camera from her bed at the County Hospital. In one hand she holds a lightbulb and she grooms her doll with the other hand.

Girls;

William P. Bonney, secretary of the Washington State Historical Society and of the Ferry Museum, and Fred E. King, retired revenue officer, with an old Smith and Wesson handgun and holster. The gun is being added to the fire arms collection of the Society. It was taken from Larry Kelly, notorious opium smuggler, in 1905 by arresting officer King. The smuggler had been in operation over 32 years when he was caught by King and associate Fred C. Dean on July 18, 1905 near Anderson Island. He was on his way to Olympia with a sloop load of opium he was running from Victoria. The dope was intended to be dealt out of a Chinese store in Olympia. When arrested, he surrendered his gun to King. It is a .32 caliber Smith and Wesson made to shoot rifle bullets. (T.Times 10/30/1934, pg. 14)

Bonney, William P.; Guns; Firearms; King, Fred E.;

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.

Fifteen-Eighteen Cabaret (Tacoma); Eating & drinking facilities--Tacoma--1930-1940; Eating & drinking--1930-1940; Nightclubs--Tacoma--1930-1940;

ca. 1934. A group of Tacomans posed prior to the College of Puget Sound Football game. Four men and three women posed in coats and hats, carrying stadium blankets. (WSHS)

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1930-1940;

ca. 1934. A young hot rodder is pulled over in his fancy go-cart by a patrolman. The policeman writes him a speeding ticket in front of Thrifty Cut-Rate Drugs at 947 Broadway. The pair are surrounded by a group of kids, and some men, on their way to the Saturday morning Mickey Mouse Club at the Temple Theatre. Some of the children are carrying instruments and are possibly part of the Mickey Mouse Club Band. The racer is a promotional give away by the drug store. Thrifty had drug store locations at 947 Broadway, 914 Pacific Ave and 401 S. 11th.

Thrifty Cut-Rate Drugs (Tacoma); Drugstores--Tacoma--1930-1940; Coaster cars--Tacoma;

ca. 1934. Mickey Mouse Club. Boy in a fancy go-cart surrounded by other boys and men in front of Virges Drug Store. Sign reads "On Our Way To The Mickey Mouse Club - Hamrick's Temple Theatre." Some of the boys are carrying musical instruments and are probably part of the Mickey Mouse Club Band. The go cart was the prize in a give away sponsored by "Thrifty Cut-Rate Drugs." In 1934, three drugstores consolidated to become Thrifty Cut-Rate Drugs. (filed with Argentum)

Thrifty Cut-Rate Drugs (Tacoma); Drugstores--Tacoma--1930-1940; Coaster cars--Tacoma;

Some time before 3:30 a.m. on November 8, 1934, a fire of unknown origins broke out in the Northern Pacific Repair Shop at South 40th and Washington Street. By morning little was left but a smoldering ruins. Completely destroyed by the flames were the huge, new repair building, which was almost two blocks long, and 35 refrigerator and freight cars. The damage was estimated to be $100,000. Tacoma's firefighters were hampered by a lack of water pressure in the Northern Pacific shops' hydrants. They had to lay hose lines to Washington and South 46th Street. (T. Times 11/8/1934, pg. 1)

Northern Pacific Railway Co. (Tacoma); Fires--Tacoma--1930-1940; Fire fighters--Tacoma--1930-1940;

ca. 1935. In 1935 Conductor Eugene Linden inspected a transcription recording of the Tacoma Philharmonic Orchestra held by an unidentified woman. The sound engineer who made the recording, in the background, is adjusting the Electro-Vox sound recording equipment. Twenty-two year old Linden was the founder of Tacoma's first symphony orchestra. In 1933 he left a lucrative position as an assistant conductor in Portland, Oregon and came to Tacoma with the desire to found his own orchestra. His first rehearsal notice attracted only 3 musicians- 2 violinists and a cellist, but over time more musicians began showing up. He had a core of 40 trained musicians for the Philharmonic's the first concert in March of 1934. Mr. Linden worked for two years without pay, hitchhiking or coming by bus from his home in Portland and supporting himself by giving flute lessons. By 1936, ticket sales were up and salaries were guaranteed for the symphony's 65 participants. (Ordered by the Tacoma Times) (TNT 2/28/1934 & 6/15/1936; TDL 3/11/1934, pg. B-1, 3/19/1934, pg. 2 & 12/13/1936)

Tacoma Philharmonic Orchestra (Tacoma); Linden, Eugene; Orchestras--Tacoma--1930-1940; Sound recording--Tacoma--1930-1940;

Eugene Linden, conductor of the Tacoma Philharmonic Orchestra, tries the key board of an Everett grand piano. Two women beside piano glance down at the oversized sheet music. On the left is Miss Eleanor Perkins, the orchestra's business manager, and on the right is Miss Blanche Yorktheimer, assistant conductor and concertmeister. Eugene Linden was the founder of the Tacoma Civic Symphony (officially named in 1936 the Tacoma Philharmonic Orchestra.) In the early days, the orchestra had no rehearsal hall & rehearsed in the Ted Brown and Evans music stores, the Armory, the Hotel Winthrop and in quarters provided by the musicians' union. By February of 1934, the orchestra had a permanent rehearsal hall at the Scottish Rite Cathedral at 5 South G. Mr. Linden was descended from 12 generations of professional musicians. He had conducted Portland Oregon's renowned Junior Symphony at the age of 17. At 22, he was employed as the assistant conductor for that symphony and was studying under Jacques Gershkovich, himself a student of Rimsky-Korsakov and Tschaikowsky in Russia before the revolution. The brash and ambitious Linden wanted to guide his own orchestra and chose Tacoma as the only Pacific coast city that could support an orchestra and that did not already have one. He arrived in Tacoma penniless, friendless and with no financial backers and founded what became known as one of the finest small symphonies in the country. Mr. Linden and his wife Virginia had three sons, Peter, Philip and Christopher. He conducted the Seattle Symphony from 1948-1950 and founded the Northwest Grand Opera, a Northwest opera touring company that folded due to financial difficulties. Mr. Linden faded from public view, never obtaining his full potential. He died January 16, 1983 at the age of 70 in Lincoln City, Oregon. (TDL 3/11/1934, pg. B-1; TNT 2/28/1934; TDL 12/13/1936; TNT 6/15/1936; picture T. Times 11/10/1934, pg. 1)

Tacoma Philharmonic Orchestra (Tacoma); Linden, Eugene; Pianos; Pianists--Tacoma--1930-1940; Perkins, Eleanor; Yorktheimer, Blanche;

On Armistice Day, November 11, 1934, Harry Hanson, a veteran of the Great War, sat on a lonely bench in Firemen's Park beneath barren trees, staring dejectedly into space. Homeless, jobless and penniless, he was one of thousands of war veterans nationwide still fighting, only this time they were fighting the battle of the Great Depression. Mr. Hanson, 44, spent two and a half years overseas during the war and occupation which followed. He joined hundreds of other homeless men each day at the park, and slept at night in a relief administration shelter. (T. Times 11/12/1934, pg. 1)

Hanson, Harry; World War, 1914-1918--Veterans--Tacoma; Depressions--1929;

Civilian Conservation Corp men logging trees in Point Defiance Park. The men lived at the CCC camp at Point Defiance. Their work detail consisted of clearing brush and timber in the park and building roads, trails and structures. The CCC was available to Depression era unemployed men. Most were 18 - 25 years of age, however the LEM (local expert men) were skilled workers aged 25 and up. They would enlist for 15 months. At Point Defiance, most of the men were from the Northwest. (T. Times 11/17/1934, pg. 1)

Point Defiance Park (Tacoma); Civilian Conservation Corps (Tacoma); Depressions--1929;

This view of Tacoma's fishing fleet, moored at the Port Commission Docks dates from November of 1934. At that time, about 45 fishing vessels called Tacoma their home port. A long row of fishing boats was photographed, their images reflected on the still water. Among the boats tied to the dock are: the "Chancellor", the "Blanco", the "Orbit" and the "Falcon." An editorial on page one of the November 20th Tacoma Times supported Initiative 77 banning fish traps. The newspaper championed building a larger marina in Tacoma that could support an expanded fleet of boats. A strip of land belonging to the Port of Tacoma, near the Port Piers, was proposed for the site of the new facility that could be the home of up to 300 boats. (T. Times 11/20/1934, pg. 1)

Fishing boats--Tacoma--1930-1940; Fishing industry--Tacoma--1930-1940;

American Smelting and Refining Company (ASARCO), Tacoma. Worker grasping tongs as he reaches into small, industrial oven. For J. Gius, reporter.

American Smelting & Refining Co. (Tacoma); Smelters--Tacoma--1930-1940; Copper industry--Tacoma--1930-1940; Industrial facilities--Tacoma;

Tacoma Smelter. Once the tallest smoke stack in the world, the brick structure billows smoke as it looms far above the refinery's steel gates. The stack was imploded in the 1990s after the refinery closed. Unchanged, the traffic tunnel remains in use.

American Smelting & Refining Co. (Tacoma); Smelters--Tacoma--1930-1940; Copper industry--Tacoma--1930-1940; Industrial facilities--Tacoma;

ca. 1934. Annie Wright Seminary. Young girls in sailor dresses in front of fireplace in school's "Great Hall." Building by Sutton, Whitney and Dugan, Architects, 1924. (filed with Argentum) (same group in computer as Series 881 image 2)

Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1930-1940; School children--Tacoma--1930-1940; Fireplaces--Tacoma--1930-1940;

ca. 1934. Congressional Inspection at Fort Lewis. Group portrait of men, including Army officers, and women on the brick steps of multi-doored, colonnaded building. Photograph ordered by the Tacoma Times. (WSHS)

Fort Lewis (Wash.); Military facilities--Wash.;

Mrs. Robert E. Evans stands with her display of seashells in front of her fireplace. For many years Mrs. Evans has collected seashells from around the world until she has amassed a rare and extensive collection. (T. Times 12/15/1934, pg. 6) (filed with Argentum)

Shells; Evans, Robert E.--Family;

Mrs. Robert E. Evans, left, president of the Woman's Society of the First Methodist Church, showed a rare shell from her collection to Myrtle (Mrs. King) Beach, the wife of the church pastor. Mrs. Evans had spent many years collecting shells from all parts of the world, ranging from small single mollusks, like the shell of the common garden snail, to the rarest specimens from tropical waters. On December 14,1934, Mrs. Evans gave a descriptive talk about her collection at the church, including a display of many of her shells. (T. Times 12/15/1934, pg. 6)

Shells; Beach, Myrtle;

ca. 1934. As Christmas Day 1934 neared, the basement of Tacoma lumberman J.T. Gregory's home at 1318 Division Ave. (now 1318 So. 4th St.) was converted into Santa's workshop. The head toymaker was Percy Quam, pictured, who lived with Mr. Gregory. Percy and his friends gave up their usual holiday revels to spend the evenings building doll cradles, rocking horses, toy trucks, tiny wheelbarrows and other toys for kids who otherwise would have a joyless Christmas. The more than 100 toys, new and freshly painted, were donated to the Elks Stocking Fillers. (T. Times 12/21/1934, pg. 9)

Toys; Wood working--Tacoma; Quam, Percy;

In November of 1934, the $90,000 chapel at Fort Lewis had been recently completed. The chapel was a two-story brick structure with a colonnaded entry and a rose window above. The chapel was the showpiece of the 5 1/2 million dollar development program at Fort Lewis. During a six year period, 80 new buildings were built, as well as roads and a new water supply system. The bill for the work was covered by the federal government and provided jobs for thousands in the depression weakened economy. (T. Times 11/23/1934, pg. 1) (WSHS)

Fort Lewis (Wash.); Military facilities--Wash.; Chapels--Fort Lewis;

ca. 1935. Washington State Liquor Board. Bottling Department interior.

Washington State Liquor Control Board (Wash.); Liquor stores--Tacoma--1930-1940;Alcoholic beverages; Government regulation--Tacoma--1930-1940; Bottling industry--Tacoma--1930-1940; Beverage industry--Tacoma--1930-1940;

ca. 1935. Washington State Liquor Board. Warehouse interior. Stacked boxes of liquor stand ready to go to the state owned and run liquor stores.

Washington State Liquor Control Board (Wash.); Liquor stores--Tacoma--1930-1940;Alcoholic beverages; Government regulation--Tacoma--1930-1940; Warehouses--Tacoma--1930-1940;

ca. 1935. Washington State Liquor Board. Interior of facility containing barrels and vats of alcoholic beverages.

Washington State Liquor Control Board (Wash.); Liquor stores--Tacoma--1930-1940;Alcoholic beverages; Government regulation--Tacoma--1930-1940; Warehouses--Tacoma--1930-1940; Beverage industry--Tacoma--1930-1940;

ca. 1935. Congressman Wesley Lloyd is assisting in the benefit to raise funds for St. Luke's reconstruction by purchasing a ticket to the "Golden Gloves" boxing tournament to be held on November 27, 1935, at 748 Market St. Also displayed in the photograph is a drawing of the original ivy-covered Episcopal church, built at Sixth & Broadway in 1883, and razed in 1934. The woman at right is not identified. See 926, image 1, for additional view of Rep. Lloyd.

Lloyd, Wesley; Fund raising--Tacoma--1930-1940; St. Luke's Episcopal Church (Tacoma); Episcopal churches--Tacoma;

In 1935, Karl Showman was foreman of the "inquiry division" of the Tacoma Post Office, also known as the "Dead letter office." Mr. Showman, who came to the Post Office in 1921, perused some of the improperly addressed letters, trying to determine where they should be delivered. His most valuable tool was the City Directory. Undeliverable mail went through a three step process: it was kept for two weeks for claiming; if unclaimed it was opened for clues; and if none were found, it was destroyed. (T. Times 1/15/1935, pg. 3) (WSHS)

Desks; Showman, Karl; Postal service employees--Tacoma--1930-1940; Postal service--Tacoma--1930-1940;

ca. 1935. View of Tacoma from North Stadium Way showing snow-covered city, railroad yards, warehouses, and buildings from the Blackwell mansion south. (WSHS)

Snow--Tacoma; Blackwell Mansion (Tacoma);