The City Beautification Committee met in South Tacoma on July 29, 1959 for an all day tour of Tacoma to plan projects to glamorize the city for the state's upcoming Century 21 Exposition in 1961. The group posed for this photograph in front of the former San Francisco trolley car owned by Steve Pease of Steve's Gay '90s Restaurant. The landmark restaurant at 5238-40 South Tacoma Way opened in 1941. The Cable Car Room was added in 1954. Steve's Gay '90s closed in 1977. Standing on the cable car, left to right, are Betty (Mrs. Robert) Drost, Mrs. Henry Nordlund, Mrs. W.J. Fahey, Mrs. S.B. Robertson, Etta (Mrs. Lee) Garrison and Maxine (Mrs. Max) Maynard. In the front, left to right, are George Smith, Wilfred J. Brown, Howard Harmon, Steve Pease and Richard Emery. (TNT 7/31/1959, pg. 15)
Cable cars; Steve's Gay '90s (Tacoma); Restaurants--Tacoma--1950-1960; Pease, Stephen O.; Drost, Betty; Garrison, Etta; Maynard, Maxine; Smith, George; Brown, Wilfred J.; Harmon, Howard S.; Emery, Richard;