Back of Photo: Left to right -- Sin Ja Jo, Yang Sun Yon, Tok Sun Young Kellman photo
Sin Ja Jo, Yang Sun Yon, and Tok Sun Young hold signs reading, "Unfair labor practice- strike." They participate in a walk-out turned lockout, protesting Path Enterprises on 7717 Portland Ave. The workers had voted in August to form a union, but contract negotiators for the union and the company had not yet reached an agreement.
Back of Photo: Yon H. Hecker fed lunch to her sister's children in the tent outside the plant of Path Enterprises during the continued labor problems Tuesday. Both Mrs. Hecker and her sister work at the plant. The boys are 8-year-old Joseph Campbell (in center) and 5-year-old Jim Campbell, (on right). Kellman Photo
Back of Photo: Jae Young Jung spoons herbs into folded pieces of paper while preparing prescriptions for patients at his chinese herb store in the Korean shopping center at 9312 South Tacoma Way. Jung is one of several tenants in the shopping center, which attracts both Asian and American customers. Story by Gordon Photo by Carrie Robertson
Back of Photo: Peter Kim drinks his Sake while talking with James Jee (L) and his sister Joanne Jee (R). The three are from Vancouver B.C. and think the Torch Light is one of the best Korean nightclubs in the northwest. Story by Dorian Smith Photo by Bill Hunter
Back of Photo: Tacoma Smelter Picketed Members of Tacoma Local 25 of the United Steelworkers Union marched Monday morning in front of the main gate of the American Smelting and Refining Co. here. Nearly 1,000 workers struck at midnight and shut down the copper-smelting plant as part of a nationwide strike. Photograph by Jerry Buck
Back of Photo: Workers picketed Utilities Department headquarters Photo by Warren Anderson
Striking Water Division employees picketed the Utilities building and other facilities, blaming the bargaining impasse on the Utilities Director Aldo J Benedetti. Photo by staff member Warren Anderson.
A striking worker sits in the back of a pick up truck parked in front of the G.W. Paulson flooring business storefront. A mannequin wearing a hardhat holds a sign reading, "On strike against G.W. Paulson."
Family members of the striking Tacoma Boatbuilding Co. workers joined the picket lines with signs and singing in support. Two thousand two hundred workers are striking the plant. “Lillian Stevens, Claudia Selby, and Brian Ferguson, 9, from left, sang family support for strikers.” Photo by staff member Bruce Kellman.
A group of demonstrators hold a banner reading, "STRIKE." A sign in the background reads, "Tough times never last but tough people do."
Back of Photo: Bill Garst of Tacoma reads on his bunk in the Last Chance Shelter. He lost his job and is looking for another one. He doesn't get unemployment (reason unknown) and because he couldn't make house payments foreclosure forced him out onto the street. Photo by Peter Haley
Back of Photo: --Freeway Model Displayed-- A 40-foot model of the Tacoma Freeway as it will appear when completed in several years is being displayed this month on the second floor of the county-City Building. Picture shows freeway running east to and over the Puyallup River. G. M. Schuster, city public works director, front right, points to state approach to city's projected Yakima Avenue Bridge. Under his arm are Delin Avenue and Tacoma Avenue undercrossings. Behind Schuster are Harold A. Hagestad, left, coordinating engineer between Tacoma and state, and Myron Calkins, city engineer. They are pointing to the complex of crossings and approaches that will be the Pacific Avenue Interchange, designed to relieve Freeway of Cross-town traffic congestion.
Back of Photo: --Puyallup Valley Freeway System-- The proposed Puyallup Valley Freeway's effect on Puyallup is revealed in the mockup (photo 1) by the State Highways Department. The map shows proposed construction. Except for the section of SR 410 between Fife and Highway 161, the system is scheduled to be operational by late 1971.
Back of Photo: Laurie Nelson belts out a tune to "Trash Toad" during a performance at Roosevelt Elem. School a key element in Tacoma's solid waste/recycling program is an assembly the city puts on at various elementary schools. It's a multi-media show that includes Laurie dancing and singing and a guy dressed up in a "Trash Toad" costume. Photo by Russ Carmack
Mary Brown, receptionist at Tacoma's Mary Bridge Hospital, seems immune to the bevy of jolly-faced jack-o-lanterns on her desk and frets away during a few moments this afternoon. The woman usually sports a smile popular with staff and visitor alike. (Photo by Geff Hinds)
Back of Photo: Erick Johnson's home was moved to the South End. Sign: I will not Sell My Property To The City Or Mayor Parker. No Parking Lot in My Front Yard.
Back of Photo: --House-Moving: "On-Abridged" Version-- Motorists on Interstate-5 near Tacoma had an unusual view Monday as this four-plex passed above them on a freeway overpass. The building was being moved from Tacoma's Hawthorne district, where a new sports-convention center will be built, to a vacant lot a few blocks up the street. Tacoma, WA, June 2, 1981 Freeway drivers gawked as an apartment trundled by. Tacoma, WA, April 17, 1983
Back of Photo: Monique Johnson, 3 yrs, can't contain her glee as she gets a horseback ride with Rich Gayles, a rodeo bull rider who rides by the name of "Daddy Rich", after the ethnic fair parade on the Hilltop. News/Szymanski Bill Hunter Photo
Back of Photo: Volunteer Edward Fynn sweeps away litter and broken glass from the sidewalk at 23rd and L Streets on Hilltop this morning as volunteers from the Hilltop Action Coalition, St. Joseph Hospital and citizens of the Hilltop community joined several on-duty officers from Tacoma PD in a sweep into the neighborhood to deliver some TLC as part of the "Area 5" neighborhood clean-up project. The group swept, cleaned and painted over graffiti the area from South 23rd to South 25th and from South K street to South Sheridan. News/Godchaux Geff Hinds Photo
Back of Photo: Hilltop (Home Ownership Program) Terence Thomas - Real-estate/Personal Banker, working with Evelyn Hargrove.
“Terence Thomas, a Seafirst real estate personal banker, talks with Evelyn Hargrove, one of the potential buyers, at a class Seafirst organized” to educate people about credit applications and real-estate transactions. Seafirst Bank, the Martin Luther King Housing Development Association, and the Tacoma Housing Authority organized a program to help low-income Pierce County residents purchase a home and revitalize Tacoma’s Hilltop Neighborhood.
Back of Photo: News A happy trio make their way up Broadway and towards Volunteer Park during todays Gay Pride parade in Downtown Seattle. Geff Hinds Photo
Three people participating in a demonstration walk with their arms around each other. One holds a sign reading, "United Against Nazis! Radical Women."
