ca. 1942. Mobilgas station. 1942 City Directory shows Alfd. Iverson as owner.

Paul H. Carlson, Mobilgas. Maxwell station. U.S. Tires.

Mc Murdy Truck & Equipment Co., International trucks, sales and service. Mobilgas.

B.K. Super Service. Mobilgas, Maxwell station. Second and Stewart Street, Puyallup, Washington.

Mobilgas, Maxwell station. Combination service station and grocery store with fresh meats for sale. Locted at U.S. 99 at Little Rock Road, Route 5, Olympia, Washington. Date of photograph not provided.

Stuermer's Service. Mobilgas, Maxwell station. Accessories; Expert repairing. Tacoma-Sumner Highway, Route 1, Box 784, Puyallup, Washington.

Hunter's. Mobilgas, Maxwell station. Used Cars. Lubrication. "Drive so all may live."

Andrew's Service. Mobilgas, Maxwell station. Groceries. Yelm Highway, Route 5, Box 444, Olympia, Washington.

ca. 1942. Mobilgas station. Doty's Little Store on right.

ca. 1941. Circa 1941 aerial view of the business district of Tacoma at night clearly showing the buildings on Pacific Ave. between 9th and 11th on the east side of the street. Buildings shown include: the Anderson building (1001-05 Pacific), the Bank of California (1011-1013 Pacific), and the Washington Building (1019 Pacific). There is a large neon sign for Mobil Gas on top of the Washington Building.

1941 Daffodil Queen. Posing with a large bouquet of daffodils and wearing a headpiece composed of the flowers is 18-year-old Pauline Martin of Sumner who was the 1941 Daffodil Festival Queen. "Queen Pauline I" was crowned on March 22, 1941, in Puyallup by J. Arthur Thompson, president of that year's festival. Governor Arthur Langlie was in attendance as well as Tacoma Mayor Harry P. Cain, who served as toastmaster. Queen Pauline and her two attendants, Maxene Maddex of Lincoln High School and Doris Simonsen of Puyallup, would ride in the March 29th Daffodil Festival Parade. (TNT 3-21-41, p. 1)

Exterior of the Granary at Fort Nisqually, Pt. Defiance Park, as it appeared on February 25, 1941. The Granary is one of the original buildings from the Fort; it was constructed in 1851. It is the oldest standing building in the state of Washington. It was originally erected as a storage facility for the Fort's harvest. Photograph ordered by W.P. Bonney.

The Lakewood community was growing rapidly in 1938 when the area's first church was dedicated. Contractors converted an abandoned old grocery store into The Little Church on the Prairie by adding a steeple, new windows and doors, and remodled interior. The white picket fence surrounding the church enhanced the Colonial architectural style that was evolving in Lakewood.

Baseball outing on the grounds of the Western State Hospital.

ca. 1940. William Jennings Meade and employees at Meade's Shurfine Market, a neighborhood grocery store at the intersection of North 6th and North K Streets, circa 1940. Mr. Meade is flanked by meat cutter Bob Fulton at left and Dick Holm, produce, at right. Driver of the delivery van is not identified. Built in 1902 as a drug store/pharmacy, the building was remodeled in 1933 for a grocery store. Mr. Meade operated the Shurfine Market from 1938 to 1944. Today, it is known as the Corner Store. (Additional identification provided by a reader)

Two young girls with bouquets of daffodils ride atop the Rotary Club of Tacoma's float in the 1940 Daffodil Parade. The focus point of the Rotary Club float is the gigantic globe, with the continents marked out with daffodils. The floats are lined up in a staging area prior to the parade. See Series D9587 image 19 for a Richards Studio photograph taken at almost the same exact time. TPL-2941

Sumner's entry in the 1940 Daffodil Parade was this floral cross section of a daffodil. Each daffodil petal is occupied by a girl. The girls wear white dresses. The float appears to be lined up in a staging area. One can only wonder if there were also five girls on the other side of the float, or if this float could only be fully appreciated from one side. The Tacoma Times calls the float a giant paddle wheel, a-la a Mississippi riverboat, with a girl in each paddle. See D9587 image 4 for another view of the float. (T. Times 3/30/1940, pg. 1)

An unidentified man contemplating whether to enjoy his last bottle of pre-prohibition beer.

Signal Oil broadcast. Carnival of Fun held at the Jason Lee (now Middle) School in September of 1939. Actor Jack Carson (far left) playfully tilts the chin of a woman believed to be Kay St. Germain, a featured singer on the radio program, as they wait behind the curtains. She would become Mrs. Jack Carson in September of 1940. BOWEN 01-347

On July 20, 1939, as part of Tacoma's Washington State Golden Jubilee celebration, six Navy dreadnoughts, the powerhouses of the Pacific Fleet, entered Commencement Bay at 8:30 in the morning and dropped anchor at the mouth of the Puyallup River. The ships and their 8,000 men and officers would be in Tacoma for the Jubilee celebration and depart on Monday, July 24th. The six battleships, the USS California, USS Pennsylvania, USS Arizona, USS New Mexico, USS Mississippi and the USS Idaho, were available for tours 1-4 p.m. through Sunday. They also provided searchlight shows in the evening and their crews took part in the water carnival races. On December 7, 1941, the California, the Pennsylvania and the Arizona were stationed at Pearl Harbor. The California and the Pennsylvania were damaged; the Arizona was destroyed, with the loss of 1,104 personnel. TPL-9081 (TNT 7/20/39, pg 1-article)

ca. 1938. Members of the Tacoma Tigers baseball club pose for a 1938 team picture prior to their game with Yakima. William "Hack" Wilson was the Tigers' playing catcher and also their manager. He is believed to be in the back row, third from the right. TPL-4747.

ca. 1938. This float was entered by the city of Sumner in a mid to late 1930's Daffodil Parade. The driver's head can be seen at the center of the float. In the back, two girls in Dutch costumes ride in chairs.

ca. 1938. Jackson Brothers Meat Market in the newly modernized Manning's store. Left to right, Elmer Jackson, Mike (last name not identified), Walter Jackson and Edwin Jackson. The meat market at Manning's had been in operation several years before 1926 when Edwin Jackson and Aug Fauss became partners and proprietors of the New Tacoma Meat Market. Edwin's brother Walter was working for them at the time and a few years later, Elmer Jackson was also cutting meat at 1102 Commerce. In the 1930s, it became Jackson Brothers Meat Market; they specialized in quality meat and sold Swift Co., Carsten's and Rath's meat products over the years. The Jackson Meat Market remained here until the building was razed in 1972.

ca. 1938. House at 809 No. C St., Tacoma. Photograph taken for A. E. Grafton. The Colonial style home was built in 1926 for Andrew H. Cochran. A.E. Anderson was the contractor. In 1938, the home was purchased by John W. Prins.

ca. 1938. A. E. Grafton Homes. Photographer's records list it as #1 Rosemont Way, Frank Hickey. Identified as being 2 Rosemount Way; 1908 Colonial belonging to John T. Hickey, designed by Bullard & Hill.

ca. 1937. Frozen in time in the middle of a windup is Floyd "Lefty" Isekite of the Tacoma Tigers. "Lefty," a southpaw, pitched in the Western International League in the 1930's. He had a blazing fastball and pitched a no-hitter in 1937 against the Wenatchee Chiefs. "Lefty" last pitched for the Tigers in 1940. He was named to the Tacoma-Pierce County Sports Hall of Fame in 1972. Floyd Gill "Lefty" Isekite passed away in April, 1992. TPL-150. (TNT 11-14-39, p. 20, TNT 8-28-49, B-9)

ca. 1937. Puget Sound Feed Co., 302 E. 26th St., Tacoma. The feed store was constructed in 1937. They were authorized dealers for Albers Feeds. Two trucks were being loaded for delivery at right and a worker can be seen through the empty loading dock door front, wheeling feed sacks on a dolly as two men at ground level watch.

ca. 1937. Residence of Walter E. & Josephine C. Turrell, 406 No. 6th St., Tacoma. The Dutch colonial styled home located at No. 6th & D was built in 1891 for Mr. Turrell. Architects were listed as Nichols & Crothers and H.S. Kissam.

Copy negative of a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Co. 3224, at "Camp Point Defiance," photograph taken on November 28, 1937. The photo was taken at the restored Fort Nisqually at Pt. Defiance, which was opened in 1934. In the background was the fence and the bastion. The photo of the CCC boys was surrounded by smaller images of Tacoma. At the bottom was a city view labeled, "Tacoma-Lumber Capital of America." The CCC camp at Point Defiance was built on a flat area just below and to the south of the reconstructed Ft. Nisqually in the park, and was home to some 155 workers. The CCC was formed in 1933 by President F.D. Roosevelt. It was composed mainly of young unemployed men, 18-25 years old, some away from home for the first time. Their work detail consisted of clearing brush and timber in the park and building roads, trails and structures.

A stunning, 1937 Mill Studio model jukebox made by Mills Novelty Co., Chicago, is installed in front of star-studded drapery at Kipper's Korner, on U.S. Highway 99, seven miles south of Tacoma. Cafe patrons can "Dance to the world's best music". Sound adjustment dials and High Fidelity Color Expressors provide the highest quality "big band" sound for dancing. Each of the 12 - 78 rpm records inside the wood-grain cabinet is affixed to its own turntable by a ferris wheel mechanism which is activated by the push-button selection dial.