Tacoma Laundry, Meyer's home, five laundries and a garage. This home was built in 1938 by William Hiltbrunn. It is French Chateau style and made of brick. The house has views of the Olympic and Cascade Mountains and Puget Sound. It was purchased in 1940 by Fred J. Meyer. Exterior view of Fred J. Meyer's home.

Houses--Tacoma--1940-1950; Home Service Laundry Co. (Tacoma); Meyer, Fred J., 1880-1954; Hiltbrunn, William;

Miller Construction Co. was building houses throughout Tacoma in order to help fill the high demand for housing. The housing industry was booming as it prepared for the post war era. Exterior view of a house built by Miller Contruction Co.

Houses--Tacoma--1940-1950; Housing--Tacoma; Miller Construction Co., Inc. (Tacoma);

Eileen Espy family picture. John C. and Eileen M. Espy, along with their family, posed in front of their Puyallup home for their family portrait on August 25, 1944. John C. Espy was a clerk at the U. S. Naval Station.

Group portraits; Espy, John C.--Family; Espy, John C.; Espy, Eileen M.; Families--Puyallup--1940-1950; Houses--Puyallup--1940-1950;

By 1949, when this photograph was taken, the Bradley Block Building, which still stands at 701-3 Pacific Ave., had seen better days. Built in 1890 by William Bradley as a saloon and boarding house, over the years it was home to the Hotel Bradley, the Lawler Apartments, the Grayson Apartments, and the Holland Furnace Company. It was saved from likely destruction in 1964 when it was purchased by the architectural firm of Liddle & Jones. (TNT, 10/20/1968)

Commercial buildings--Tacoma--1940-1950; Bradley Block (Tacoma); Puget Sound Battery Co. (Tacoma); Holland Furnace Co. (Tacoma);

C. F. McConihey. Driveway and side view of home belonging to Charles F. and Jessie M. McConihey. Mrs. McConihey can be seen walking across dirt driveway in this April 28, 1944, photograph.

Houses--Tacoma--1940-1950; McConihey, Charles F.--Homes & haunts; Driveways--Tacoma; McConihey, Charles F.--Family;

Fircrest housing progress for A. G. Homann. 50 new homes are being built by Miller Construction Co. in the Fircrest area. With the wartime population increase, Tacoma is in dire need of these new homes. View of home construction progress.

Housing developments--Tacoma; Miller Construction Co., Inc. (Tacoma);

Exterior of Red Cross Building. The American Red Cross Pierce County Chapter building has just been remodeled and redecorated and is now ready for its formal dedication. An "open house" will immediately follow the ceremony, which will be open to the public. The renovations have made it one of the most modern chapters in the West (T. Times, 5/8/44, p. 9).

Building dedications--Tacoma; Organizations' facilities--Tacoma; American Red Cross Pierce County Chapter (Tacoma);

Exterior of Westinghouse Building. View from west side of two story building shows low relief terra cotta frieze near cornice of brick building. A neon sign hangs below the wooden sign board. TPL-6387

Commercial facilities--Tacoma; Westinghouse Electric Supply Co. (Tacoma); Signs (Notices);

A large and comfortable leather covered chair and ottoman point directly towards the television in this living room in one of the apartments in the new Vista Manor Apartments. Solid color shag carpeting and draperies of a nubby fabric help create a relaxed atmosphere in this room. Ordered by the W.H. Opie & Company, property managers for the building.

Apartment houses--Tacoma--1950-1960; Vista Manor Apartments (Tacoma); W.H. Opie & Co. (Tacoma); Real estate business--Tacoma; Living rooms--Tacoma--1950-1960;

Lakewood Realty, owned by Bill W. Tietz and Harry S. Rinker, was managing the sales of new homes in Mountbrook Manor, a new housing development in Lakewood developed by Bill W. Tietz of Tietz Construction Company. This one-story rambler has been faced with both brick and clapboards. An attached two-car garage has a broad driveway from the street. Tall fir trees stand behind the new home. The building sites in Mountbrook Manor were approximately one-third of an acre. The architect for Tietz Construction was John Nelson who drew the plans for all new construction so there was never a repetition of floor plans in the large development. (TNT, 2/17/1952, p.C-12)

Housing developments--Lakewood--1950-1960; Mountbrook Manor (Lakewood); Tietz Construction Inc. (Lakewood); Houses--Lakewood--1950-1960;

Wallace R. and Eleanor Stabbert built a new home in Fircrest in 1950. Smooth, rounded stucco on the exterior of the home provides a very fresh appearance to the home. The curved walkway to the entry way mimicks the curved corners of the building. Wally Stabbert was president of Fred Stabbert Co., Inc., contractors for plastering, roofing, stucco and cast stone. Their offices were at 1929 South Tacoma Avenue.

Houses--Fircrest--1950-1960; Stabbert, Wallace R.--Homes & haunts; Fred Stabbert Co., Inc. (Tacoma);

Exposure of Seattle homes for Master Builders Display at the Seattle Home Show, for Phares Advertising Agency. Rough hewn wood split level with garage below by A.C. Goodwin. A tall chimney runs up the side of the home. The front entrance lies several feet above the street level. The small windows in the front appear to slide to one side for ventilation. Large plate glass windows wrap around corner on the left.

Houses--Seattle--1950-1960; Seattle Home Show (Seattle);

The exterior of the Anderson Apartments showing entries to six apartments in the one-story concrete brick building. Ordered by Holroyd Company.

Anderson Apartments (Parkland); Apartment houses--Parkland; Cement industries--Tacoma; Holroyd Co. (Tacoma);

Exposure of Seattle homes for Master Builders Display at the Seattle Home Show, for Phares Advertising Agency. This ranch home with shingle siding and composition roof, by F.R. McAbee, is a duplex and has a lattice screen at one front entrance and brick 1/2 wall at the other. 8th N.W. & W. 105th, Seattle

Duplexes--Seattle--1950-1960; Seattle Home Show (Seattle);

Al and Betty Weber's new home was built by Home Construction Company. The one-story, ranch style home has been finished with wide clapboards and Roman brick facing the front entrance and picture windows that extend from the front of the home in Parkland.

Home Construction Co. (Lakewood); Houses--Parkland--1950-1960; Weber, Alfred G.--Homes & haunts;

This one-story rambler is located within Fort Lewis. Board and batten construction was chosen for the left-hand side of the home where the single-car garage is shown. The right-hand portion of the home has brick, painted white, at the base with wide shingles above. Cedar shakes have been used for the roof covering.

Homes--Fort Lewis--1950-1960;

Exposure of Bellevue homes for Master Builders Display at the Seattle Home Show, for Phares Advertising Agency. One story brick home with attached two car carport on left. The home has a living area extension on the right, making the entrance door recessed and large brick planters in front. By Boyd & Mahrenholz, Inc.

Houses--Bellevue--1950-1960; Seattle Home Show (Seattle);

Exposure of Bellevue homes for Master Builders Display at the Seattle Home Show, for Phares Advertising Agency. Rear view of a split level brick, shingle & vertical siding house with composition roof, by Bell & Valdez. Daylight basement can be seen from the back.

Houses--Bellevue--1950-1960; Seattle Home Show (Seattle);

The exterior of a new one-story home with an attached one-car garage. Shingles were chosen for the exterior covering with brick facing the indented area around the front entry and picture window. Ordered by Powell Construction Company.

Houses--Fircrest--1950-1960; Powell Construction Co. (Tacoma);

The exterior of a new one-story home with an attached one-car garage. Dark shingles were chosen for the exterior covering with brick facing the indented area around the front entry and picture window. A few of the trees have been left standing in the yard. Ordered by Powell Construction Company.

Houses--Fircrest--1950-1960; Powell Construction Co. (Tacoma);

Exposure of Seattle homes for Master Builders Display at the Seattle Home Show, for Phares Advertising Agency. This L shaped rambler, by Modern Home Builders, has the garage on the right next to the front door and brick planter. On either side of the door are large floor to ceiling plate glass windows. There is an extension off of the rear of the home and the landscaping has been put in.

Houses--Seattle--1950-1960; Seattle Home Show (Seattle);

Exposure of Seattle homes for Master Builders Display at the Seattle Home Show, for Phares Advertising Agency. A two car garage fronts this brick and wood one story home by Raber & Co. Mature trees surround the home.

Houses--Seattle--1950-1960; Seattle Home Show (Seattle);

Exposure of Seattle homes for Master Builders Display at the Seattle Home Show, for Phares Advertising Agency. This one story ranch style rambler has a projected living room with windows all around. The brick and wood siding is ornamented by a brick planter on the left side of the home. By H. F. Wilkinson.

Houses--Seattle--1950-1960; Seattle Home Show (Seattle);

Exposure of Seattle homes for Master Builders Display at the Seattle Home Show, for Phares Advertising Agency. This large two story brick home with a tile roof, by Eric Spolander, features underground parking. It is graced with many large windows and what appears to be a front entrance from the street and a rear entrance from the driveway. Large boulders laid for a rock garden, but no landscaping has been added. Address is unknown.

Houses--Seattle--1950-1960; Seattle Home Show (Seattle);

Exposure of Seattle homes for Master Builders Display at the Seattle Home Show, for Phares Advertising Agency. This one story wooden rambler with brick quarter facing on the front walls has an attached garage and a brick planting box. The home has a fireplace, with the chimney rising to the left of the door, and is raised a few feet above street level. Harold Larsen

Houses--Seattle--1950-1960; Seattle Home Show (Seattle);

A row of four small, one-story homes built of concrete blocks at 120th and South Alaska Streets. Ordered by Witte & O'Flyng.

Witte & O'Flyng, Inc. (Tacoma); Houses--Parkland--1950-1960;

This photograph of the recently completed million dollar F.W. Woolworth Co. building, 955 Broadway, was taken from across Commerce St., for the Roy T. Earley Co., engineers in January of 1951. The Woolworth store replaced the Fidelity Building that had stood at the corner of 9th and Broadway from 1890 until it was demolished in 1949. The News Tribune called the new building "the most up-to-date beautiful store of its kind in the world." After the store closed in 1993, it was sold and transformed into a giant telephone switching station with no public access, and its people-oriented uses limited to the art gallery space created in its street level windows.

Commercial facilities; F.W. Woolworth Co. (Tacoma); Variety stores--Tacoma--1950-1960;

Exposure of the completed Grosvenor Apartments in Seattle. Photograph for Bethlehem Steel taken on January 24, 1951.

Grosvenor House Apartments (Seattle); Construction--Seattle; Apartment houses--Seattle; Progress photographs--1950-1960;

This house at the corner of North 27th and Tyler was built in 1907 not as a private residence but as a grocery store. From 1908 through 1918 it was the Andrew Larson Grocery. In 1919 the store was taken over by Boe Pederson. Shortly after that, Mr. Pederson opened a grocery at 313 So. 9th. He remodeled his store at 4202 No. 27th into a single family home. This photograph was taken in February of 1951. TPL-9485

Houses--Tacoma--1950-1960; Arbors (Bowers)--Tacoma;

Exposure from Lloyd Suiter Tire Co., 1955 Pacific Ave., looking each way down Pacific Ave. On the right hand side is Union Station (1735 Pacific Ave.), Schoenfelds and the Eleventh Street bridge. On the left hand side is Harry Brown Confections Inc. Wholesale (1932-34), Westinghouse Electric Corporation (1930), Webster-Robinson Machinery and Supply Co. (1924), Johnson Brush Co. (1920), American Plumbing and Steam Supply Co. (1908-16) and Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. is on the corner of Pacific and 19th. Streetlights are on either side of the wide thoroughfare. TPL-9382

Commercial streets--Tacoma--1950-1960; Business districts--Tacoma--1950-1960; Union Station (Tacoma);