New Yorker Cafe for Dohrman Hotel Supply. A view of the sparking, new kitchen with stainless steel cabinets, coffee makers and overhead hoods.

New Yorker Cafe (Tacoma); Restaurants--Tacoma--1940-1950; Kitchens--Tacoma--1940-1950; Stoves--Tacoma--1940-1950; Cupboards--Tacoma--1940-1950;

New Yorker Cafe for Dohrman Hotel Supply.The double grill in the kitchen provides a large cooking area. The large stock pot on the left has a spout with a turn off valve at the bottom of the pot and a water line is provided with a faucet above the pot. The exit flues for the venting hoods over the grills bend towards each other before exiting through the ceiling forming an almost decorative look.

New Yorker Cafe (Tacoma); Restaurants--Tacoma--1940-1950; Kitchens--Tacoma--1940-1950; Stoves--Tacoma--1940-1950; Fans (Machinery); Pots & pans;

Western Machine Works. The interior of the shop. A metal frame is seen in the foreground. The background is filled with machines and materials. Western Machine Works specialized in veneer and hoisting machinery. They also handled general repair work. Headed by Frank Schmidt, the firm was established in 1922.

Western Machine Works (Tacoma); Machine shops--Tacoma--1940-1950;

West Coast Grocery Company had just moved into their new headquarters in Tacoma. This building included, food storage warehouses, offices and subsidiary companies all on one site. The $400,000 building was 640 feet long, 240 feet wide and over 135,000 square feet of space, all on one floor. Aerial view of West Coast Grocery Company.

West Coast Grocery Co. (Tacoma); Aerial photographs; Progress photographs; Storehouses--Tacoma; Business enterprises--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Harold A. Sanford was the President of Sanford-Nash Inc., he had been in the Nash dealership business since 1918. Exterior view of Sanford Nash Company, two signs posted by entrance tell us this is the Parts Department for used cars, the Service Department is located on lower floor. Stucco building at Sixth and Tacoma Avenue, two Nash automobiles in showroom windows, neon and painted signs on building.

Automobile dealerships--Tacoma; Automobile equipment & supplies stores--Tacoma; Sanford-Nash, Inc. (Tacoma); Signs (Notices); Showrooms--Tacoma;

Interior of Rug Cleaning Plant, Cartozian & Sons Rug Company, Edward S. Cartozian. One man rolls a cleaned and dry rug in paper while another sorts orders on a rack in the facility. Several pieces of upholstered furniture sit wrapped on the left side and a carpet is spread on the floor on the far right.

Cartozian & Sons Rug Co. (Tacoma); Rugs; Service industry facilities--Tacoma--1940-1950; Cleaning;

Dohrmann Hotel Supply Company. An interior view of a restaurant kitchen showing back to back cooking surfaces. Ladels hang above the cooking surfaces. To the right are deep fryers and in back are cold storage facilities.

Dohrmann Hotel Supply Co. (Tacoma); Cooking utensils; Kitchens--Tacoma--1940-1950; Appliances; Equipment industry--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Dohrmann Hotel Supply Company. An interior view of the wholesale facility featuring glassware, silverware, serving pieces and pitchers. Standing ash trays, a folding table, umbrella stands and small tables stand in front of the display case.

Dohrmann Hotel Supply Co. (Tacoma); Stores & shops--Tacoma--1940-1950; Chairs; Glassware; Silverware; Tableware; Tables; Merchandise displays;

Gilvray Lighting Inc. An interior view of the new Dohrmann Hotel Supply Company's wholesale facilities. Dohrmann moved into this location in June 1947. The lighting fixtures are of current styling with three concentric circles of metal housing the light bulbs.

Dohrmann Hotel Supply Co. (Tacoma); Stores & shops--Tacoma--1940-1950; Merchandise displays--Tacoma--1940-1950; Electric lighting--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Eastern Star Convention at the New Yorker, Margaret Kearney. Mrs. Arthur W. Slayer, third from the left in the front row, Grand Matron of the Grand Chapter of Washington State, Order of Eastern Star for 1947, presided over the 3-day state session. Mrs. Charles W. Douglass of Wenatchee, and Eugene C. Simmons of Centralia, (fourth and fifth from the left in the front row) were elevated to the offices of Worthy Grand Matron and Worthy Grand Patron during the session. (T.Times, 6/20/1947, p.1)

New Yorker Cafe (Tacoma); Order of Eastern Star (Tacoma); Fraternal organizations--Tacoma--1940-1950; Women--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Puyallup Motor Company, Lincoln/Mercury dealer. General view of modernistic building at night, new automobiles in lighted showroom. Photograph taken on July 19, 1947.

Puyallup Motor Co. (Puyallup); Automobile dealerships--Puyallup--1940-1950; Automobiles--Puyallup--1940-1950;

New automobiles in showroom of Puyallup Motor Company, Lincoln/Mercury Dealer. There are several potential customers admiring the new cars during the evening of July 19, 1947. Puyallup Motor Company was located at 202 Pioneer Ave. E.

Puyallup Motor Co. (Puyallup); Automobile dealerships--Puyallup--1940-1950; Lincoln automobile; Mercury automobile; Automobiles--Puyallup--1940-1950;

Ingleside Cafe, Ponders Station, Ft. Lewis Highway. A large billboard for Olympia Beer shows over the roof of the cafe. Automobiles are parked outside the cafe which has a large awning over the windows on the parking lot side. The neon sign near the front door advertises fountain service. Additional neon signs placed over the roof dormers spell, "E-A-T". The Ingleside Cafe opened at this location in 1940. TPL-2535

Restaurants--Lakewood; Cafes--Lakewood; Ingleside Cafe (Lakewood); Billboards--Lakewood; Olympia Beer; Electric signs--Lakewood;

Bicycles being awarded to five boys in front of the Times building, Times circulation, Cochran. TPL-9604

Tacoma Times Publishing Co. (Tacoma); Newspapers--Tacoma--1940-1950; Newspaper carriers--Tacoma--1940-1950; Bicycles & tricycles--Tacoma--1940-1950; Awards; Boys--Tacoma--1940-1950; Teenagers--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Lakewood Store, Saxton's Inc.

Saxton's, Inc. (Lakewood); Merchandise displays--Lakewood--1940-1950; Home furnishings stores--Lakewood--1940-1950; Candy--Lakewood--1940-1950;

Saxton's Furniture and Gift Ware, Mrs. C.B. DeBolt. This view of the exterior of the store at night features the furniture department at one end of the building and gifts at the farther end.

Saxton's, Inc. (Lakewood); Window displays--Lakewood--1940-1950; Home furnishings stores--Lakewood--1940-1950; Tableware; Figurines;

Saxton's Furniture and Gift Ware, Mrs. C.B. DeBolt. An interior view of the gift ware department at Saxton's. The display includes tableware, waste baskets, prints, gifts, and other home decoration items.

Saxton's, Inc. (Lakewood); Window displays--Lakewood--1940-1950; Home furnishings stores--Lakewood--1940-1950; Tableware; Gifts; Prints;

W. C. Patterson, Leon E. Titus (right) and an unidentified man are looking at the 20,000 officially rebuilt Ford Motor. Titus was an official dealership for Ford autos and they had a large fully equipped service center. Leon Titus had just been selected as the representative for the Western Region at the Ford National meeting. W. C. Patterson was the district manager for the Ford Motor Company.

Automobile equipment & supplies; Engines; Ford automobile; Automobile dealerships--Tacoma--1940-1950; Titus Motor Co. (Tacoma); Patterson, W.C.; Titus, Leon E.;

An unidentified bellman receives a room key from one of the employees working behind the front desk of the Hotel Winthrop in fall of 1947. In October of that year the hotel entered into a long term lease with Western Hotels Inc. The president of the Winthrop Hotel Company, E. J. Calloway, announced that Edward E. Carlson, Vice-President of Western Hotels and a native Tacoma, was to become the new general manager of the hotel, effective immediately. The Hotel Winthrop opened in May of 1925; it was converted into apartments for senior housing in 1973. (Photo ordered by Botsford, Constantine and Gardner, an advertising agency based out of Seattle.) TPL-9493

Hotel employees--Tacoma; Hotels--Tacoma; Lobbies--Tacoma; Hotel Winthrop (Tacoma);

Winthrop Hotel would have new and improved facilities to offer to their clients. Western also planned to remodel the guests rooms after the public facilities were completed. Western Hotels Inc. President S. W. Thurston stated "A good hotel is more than just a business in the city, it is the center of civic activity." View of the dining room, the hostess and restaurant staff are ready to serve, photo ordered by Botsford, Constantine and Gardner, an advertising agency based out of Seattle.

Hotel employees--Tacoma; Hotels--Tacoma; Uniforms; Waitresses--Tacoma; Cash registers; Hotel Winthrop (Tacoma);

Mattoon-Laverne Tire Company. Hawkinson Tire Tread Service. Three men stand by a stack of General Tires in front of the recapping facility. TPL-8358

Tire industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Hawkinson Tire Tread Service (Tacoma); Tires;

Mattoon-Laverne Tire Company. Hawkinson Tire Tread Service. Three men stand by the Hawkinson panel delivery truck in front of the recapping facility. One holds a General Tire with advertising in the middle. This one-story brick building was built in 1927 as Cunningham Electric.

Tire industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Trucks--Tacoma--1940-1950; Hawkinson Tire Tread Service (Tacoma); Tires;

Coy's Hardware Store, North End Buildiers' Supply. Interior view. Owned by Edwin L. Coy. A woman helps customers at a counter with scales and paper on large roll with paper cutter. Bean pots and animal feeders are in the foreground. Gifts, paints, shovels, and mirrors are also seen. Signs say, "We make corsages", "Don't forget a Paint Brush", "We cut Glass and Repair Windows".

Hardware stores--Tacoma--1940-1950; Coy's Hardware Store (Tacoma); North End Builders' Supply (Tacoma);

ca. 1943. Packed from wall to wall with customers, Sears and Roebuck Company's sale on alarm clocks was a huge success. This crowd was photographed circa 1943.

Sears, Roebuck & Co. (Tacoma); Department stores--Tacoma--1940-1950; Crowds--Tacoma--1940-1950; Shopping--Tacoma--1940-1950;

The third War Bond Drive opened on September 9, 1943. People of Tacoma and Pierce County were asked to purchase $19,000,000 in bonds during the drive. It didn't take long for the first million dollars in bonds to be sold. Tacoma Savings & Loan Association bought a block of $1,000,000 of U.S. bonds on September 13, 1943. Shown above are War Bond Drive representatives and officials of the savings & loan: (L-R) general campaign manager for Pierce County Hugo Ferber, vice-president & general manager of Tacoma Savings & Loan Association A.W. Winden, president of the association Alfred Lister, and chairman of the banks/industrial section of the campaign committee Doyle Watt. Association officials commented on the safety of the bonds and urged that the more money invested in war bonds, the quicker the victory over the enemy. (TNT 9-9-43, p. 1, TNT 9-13-43, p. 11)

Tacoma Savings & Loan Association (Tacoma); Banks--Tacoma; War bonds & funds; World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects of war--Tacoma; Ferber, Hugo; Winden, A.W.; Lister, Alfred; Watt, Doyle;

Started in the mid-1930s by Benjamin J. Schwartz, Bert's Mens Wear was located at the corner of 11th and Pacific for over 30 years. The building was demolished in the late 1960s and replaced with the Park Plaza South Parking Garage. For several years in the 1950s there was a second Bert's store at 938 Broadway. TPL-8679

Clothing stores--Tacoma--1940-1950; Bert's Men's Wear (Tacoma); Window displays--Tacoma--1940-1950;

In June of 1944 Pauline Gunstrom, the telephone operator at the Bank of California, 1011 Pacific Avenue, was photographed holding a flask-type pint bottle that had been filled to the brim with dimes. The bottle was brought to the bank by an unidentified shipyard worker at the Todd Pacific Shipyards to purchase a war bond. Once emptied the bottle was found to contain 1,125 dimes, more than enough for a bond. (T. Times, 6/20/44, p. 3).

Banks--Tacoma; War bonds & funds; Bank of California National Association (Tacoma);

The entrance to the Olympus Cafe at the Olympus Hotel showing the stairway down from Pacific Avenue and the lobby. The newly opened "Olympus Cafe" and Supper Club, located in the Olympus Hotel, is celebrating their grand opening. Bert Sundegren, owner, stated it is "Tacoma's newest and Washington's finest" restaurant. The location had large columns, a tile floor and ornate chandeliers. TPL-6421

Restaurants--Tacoma--1940-1950; Olympus Cafe (Tacoma); Olympus Hotel (Tacoma);

Standard Oil service stations - Dravis Service Station, for Mr. Evans. The garage has been boarded up although old signs still hang in the front windows. Three gasoline pumps stand in the front of the one story building.

Automobile Service Stations--Tacoma--1940-1950; Standard Oil Co. of California (Tacoma); Dravis Service Station;

Standard Oil Stations. Phil Pepper's service station. The gasoline pumps and cover cross the corner lot diagonally. The door to the one service garage is open. TPL-7114

Automobile service stations--Tacoma--1940-1950; Standard Oil Co. of California (Tacoma); Phil Pepper Servce Station;