ca. 1936. Guest room at the new Tacoma Hotel, formerly known as the Tacoma Hotel Annex. The annex opened as the main hotel after the historical main building burned in October of 1935. Photograph shows a typical guest room with a double bed with white bedspread and iron bedframe. A mirror and dresser are on the opposite wall. A desk sits beside the bed and a radiator by the window supplies the heat.

Tacoma Hotel (Tacoma); Hotels--Tacoma--1930-1940; Bedrooms--1930-1940;

ca. 1936. Gregory Furniture Manufacturing Company, display of cedar chests inside concrete loft warehouse type building. Probably an exhibit booth for a home show. Gregory Furniture Manufacturing was located in Tacoma at 2908 So. Steele. Edwin Gregory and Howard E. Gregory were the company's officers. (Argentum)

Gregory Furniture Manufacturing Co. (Tacoma); Chests; Exhibit booths;

ca. 1936. Tacoma Tug & Barge Company tugboat "Fearless" pushing a barge bearing a Brute Crane. Built in Tacoma in 1900, the 80 foot tug was one of the most powerful tugs at the turn of the century. She later became the Foss 21. (filed with Argentum)

Tacoma Tug & Barge Co. (Tacoma); Tugboats--1930-1940; Hoisting machinery;

ca. 1936. Engineering Specialty Company, Seattle, interior view of machine shop. (filed with Argentum)

Engineering Specialty Co. (Seattle); Machine shops--Seattle;

ca. 1936. Plymouth sedan taxicab at Wright Park with uniformed driver opening door. For Goodyear, Shaub-Ellison Tire Company. (filed with Argentum)

Taxicab drivers; Taxicabs--Tacoma; Shaub-Ellison Co. (Tacoma); Plymouth automobile; Automobiles--Tacoma--1930-1940; Wright Park (Tacoma); Parks--Tacoma--1930-1940;

A large crane is mounted on a Foss barge as the Foss Tugboat, the Diamond B, prepares to tow it down the Puyallup Waterway in December of 1936. The East 11th Street Bridge is in the left background.

Hoisting machinery; Towing--Tacoma; Tugboats--Tacoma--1930-1940; Foss Launch & Tug Co. (Tacoma); Bridges--Tacoma--1930-1940;

ca. 1936. Interior of Northwest Door Company, for Joe Cornish. (filed with Argentum)

Northwest Door Co., Inc. (Tacoma); Machinery; Plywood; Lumber industry--Tacoma--1930-1940;

ca. 1936. Interior of Northwest Door Company, for Joe Cornish. (filed with Argentum)

Northwest Door Co., Inc. (Tacoma); Machinery; Plywood; Lumber industry--Tacoma--1930-1940;

ca. 1936. Interior of Northwest Door Company, for Joe Cornish. (filed with Argentum)

Northwest Door Co., Inc. (Tacoma); Machinery; Plywood; Lumber industry--Tacoma--1930-1940;

ca. 1936. Fort Nisqually reconstruction at Point Defiance Park. View through gate of Factors House and bastion. The Factors House was built in 1854 for Dr. Tolmie and was one of two surviving structures from the original fort. The original 1830's Hudson's Bay trading post was located in the Nisqually Delta. It was moved from its original site in Dupont to a bluff in Point Defiance Park in the mid 1930's. Funds were provided by the Young Men's Business League, the Chamber of Commerce and several federally subsidized work programs creating needed jobs in the Depression years.

Hudson's Bay Co. (Tacoma); Frontier & pioneer life--Tacoma; Trading posts--Tacoma; Fort Nisqually (Tacoma); Point Defiance Park (Tacoma);

ca. 1936. Magician Ray Gamble, seated facing the camera at near right, enjoying a meal with friends in Hollywood. Mr. Gamble and his wife Addie had apparently paid a visit to the famed Sardi's restaurant about 1936. Beatrice Houdini, widow of Harry Houdini, was seated in the next table along with Edward Saint. Caricatures of Eddie Cantor and Peter Lorre, and others, decorate the wall behind Mr. Gamble. From left to right are: Capt. Charles Howard of the Canadian Mounted Police; Mrs. Howard; Dr. J.E. Evedon of Hollywood; Mrs. Gamble; Mrs. Evedon; and Ray Gamble.

Magicians; Gamble, Ray, 1886-1972; Gamble, Addie; Howard, Charles; Howard, Charles--Family; Evedon, J.E.; Evedon, J.E.--Family; Sardi's (Hollywood, CA); Caricatures;

ca. 1936. Beatrice (Mrs. Harry) Houdini, Ray Gamble and other guests sit around a restaurant table believed to be located in the famed Sardi's restaurant in Hollywood circa 1936. On the walls are caricatures of famous visitors . At the table, left to right, are Edward Saint, unidentified, Ray Gamble, Beatrice Houdini, unidentified woman and another unidentified male.

Magicians; Houdini, Harry--Family; Houdini, Beatrice; Gamble, Ray, 1886-1972; Saint, Edward;

ca. 1936. Demarest Tea at "Shadowland," circa 1936. Shadowland was the country home at 12101 Gravelly Lake Dr. S.W., in the Interlaaken Addition of Lakewood, purchased by Ernest W. Demarest in 1924. Women having tea, some seated on porch swing. Photograph ordered by the Tacoma Times. (filed with Argentum)

Demarest, Ernest--Homes & haunts; Clubwomen--Tacoma--1930-1940;

ca. 1936. Magic Chef gas stove Wheel of Fortune. The promoter stands in front of the wheel while a woman spins the dial. The man to her right is grabbing candy bars to hand out as prizes. Audience is seated in wooden chairs . Poster on wall "Try a Magic Chef Gas Range". For Harmon Miller's client Max Fischer.

Games--1930-1940; Publicity--1930-1940; Advertising--1930-1940; Stoves--1930-1940;

ca. 1936. Bastian at Fort Nisqually, Point Defiance Park. Fort Nisqually was relocated from the site of the original Hudson's Bay Fort near DuPont to Point Defiance Park in Tacoma with the help of the Young Men's Business Club of Tacoma, the Chamber of Commerce, and several federally subsidized work relief programs. The project, whose cost exceeded $150,000 during the depression, created many needed jobs for men out of work. Ordered by Lee Merrill..

Fort Nisqually (Tacoma); Point Defiance Park (Tacoma);

ca. 1936. View of port industries taken from bluff above the warehouses along City Waterway. Half-moon railroad yards and warehouses in foreground. Port industrial area, 11th Street Bridge, and Mount Rainier in background.

Railroad sidings--Tacoma--1930-1940; Railroad freight cars--Tacoma--1930-1940; Warehouses--Tacoma;

ca. 1936. Perspective of Mount Rainier taken from the center of a well-traveled, unpaved road. Fence posts and trees on either side of the road. Stock negative.

Rainier, Mount (Wash.);

ca. 1936. Vehicle traveling down an unpaved road. In the distance, a large expanse of houses and beyond, Mount Rainier with cumulus cloud cover. Wild lupines bloom along the side of the road. Stock negative, circa 1936.

Automobiles--1930-1940; Roads; Rainier, Mount (Wash.); Wildflowers;

ca. 1936. Turner Richards large motor boat, filled with civilians and Navy personnel, speeding across the water.

Vessels - Boats - Motor Boats

ca. 1936. Firefighters on land and in a fireboat spray water on the fire at Gamble Manufacturing Company.

Disasters - Fires - Industry Fires

ca. 1936. George Lawler, bulb grower, house and gardens. Distant view taken in 1936 of Mr. and Mrs. Lawler standing in front of home. House was a two-story, Colonial-style home. This is most probably the Lawler estate at Gardenville, near Fife, where Mr. Lawler began his bulb business in 1910. It was described as having green shutters, a red roof and a graceful entrance between two columns. It was located near what is now 54th Avenue East and Fourth Street. The house was ringed by Lombardy poplars and the "Gardenville" moniker was in honor of its flowers. The house was believed to still be in the Fife area in 1992, moved about 300 feet north of its original site. (TNT 04/25/1992 D3)

Lawler, George--Homes & haunts;

ca. 1936. Group of people at Woodbrook Hunt Club standing beside a grouping of trees in front of wood-frame building. Woodbrook members tentatively identified as, left to right, Hill Hudson, Mr. Bishop, Marian Ingram, ?, Marguerite Bonnell, three unidentified riders and, on the far right, C.A. Erskine. (filed with Argentum)

Woodbrook Hunt Club (Lakewood); Bonnell, Marguerite;

ca. 1936. Unidentified older man sitting on steps of front porch. He is wearing a pointed felt hat with brim, suit and tie, and knitted sweater vest. (WSHS)

Older people--1930-1940;

ca. 1936. Comptometer for Mr. Strang. Counting election votes. An announcer for KVI radio sits at a desk next to three people working on election ballots.

Counting votes--1930-1940;

ca. 1936. Boats moored at a marina.

Facilities - Transportation Facilities - MarinasVessels - Boats

ca. 1936. Tacoma Fire Company, Fireboat No. 1. Firefighters at stations on fire boat with far-reaching sprays in action.

Fireboats--Tacoma--1930-1940;

ca. 1936. Tacoma Fire Company, Fireboat No. 1. Firefighters at stations on fire boat directing far-reaching sprays of water into Commencement Bay. Industries in background.

Fireboats--Tacoma--1930-1940;

ca. 1936. Andrew Holt, shoe repairer at Bone-Dry Shoe Store, standing at counter piled with many pairs of worn boots. Machinery behind him. Location 11th and Commerce Streets.

Holt, Andrew; Shoemakers; Shoe industry--Tacoma; Shoemaking--Tacoma; Bone Dry Shoe Store (Tacoma);

New one-and-one-half story cottage by Cavanaugh Lumber Company, with sign "For Sale Robert A. Walker and Co." in front window. Located at about 7000 A Street.

Houses--Pierce County--1930-1940; Cavanaugh Lumber Co. (Tacoma);

ca. 1936. George Lawler bulb farm at Roy, Washington. A young girl holds a bouquet of tulips in the flower field where tulips have grown as tall the child.

Lawler Bulbs (Roy); Lawler, George--Homes & haunts; Tulips; Croplands--Roy; Girls--Roy--1930-1940;