ca. 1939. Baker-U-Drive Rent-a-Car. Owner D.M. Baker takes delivery of seven shiny new Ford automobiles from Leon Titus, of Titus Motor Co. The cars have been placed in service and are now available for rent through Baker-U-Drive. Also pictured are Lorin and Mike Gladstone, in white overalls. (T. Times 1/7/1940, pg. 2) (filed with Argentum)

Lease & rental services--Tacoma; Automobiles--Tacoma--1930-1940; Garages--Tacoma; Baker You-Drive Co. (Tacoma); Ford automobile;

ca. 1939. Hot-O-Matic electric storage water heaters, made locally by Midget Heater & Specialty Co., on display at Show of Progress in November of 1939. Displayed with model in center and five models on each side. Tacoma manufacturers and distributors of all kinds had displays at the trade show; nearly every article useful in the home could be viewed. The show of Progress was held in the old Sears building at the corner of Pacific and South 24th. The Hot-o-Matic was manufactured locally by Midget, located at 3411 Pacific Ave. (filed with Argentum)

Midget Heater & Specialty Co. (Tacoma); Water heaters;

ca. 1939. Group of clubwomen taking part in "Philanthropic," photograph taken at Mrs. Thompson's in Steilacoom. Left to right: Virginia Baker, Mrs. Walter Bauman, Mrs. John Gregg and Edith Ann Fogg. (filed with Argentum) names from Richards Studio records

Clubwomen--Tacoma; Baker, Virginia; Fogg, Edith Ann;

ca. 1939. Group of clubwomen taking part in "Philanthropic," photograph taken at Mrs. Thompson's in Steilacoom circa 1939. Left to right: Amy Lou Murray, Mrs. C. Fogg, Virginia Davis, Charlotte Dowd, and Margaret Ann Schaefer. (filed with Argentum) names from Richards Studio records

Murray, Amy Lou; Davis, Virginia; Dowd, Charlotte; Schaefer, Margaret Ann; Clubwomen--Tacoma;

ca. 1939. Drum and Bugle Corps, "Daughters of United Spanish War Veterans." (filed with Argentum)

Spanish-American War, 1898--Veterans--Family; Daughters of United Spanish War Veterans (Tacoma);

Associated Oil Company aerial view of Northeast Tacoma, Vashon Island, and Commencement Bay. Ordered by George Martinac, North Pacific Bank Note Company.

Aerial photographs;

Associated Oil Company aerial view looking south toward Lakewood. Cemetery and highway in foreground. Ordered by George Martinac, North Pacific Bank Note Company.

Aerial photographs;

ca. 1939. Elevated view of downtown business district from the 900 block of Broadway including Puget Sound Bank Main and Broadway Branches, Pythian Temple, Rust and Fidelity Buildings. Photograph was taken circa 1939.

Cityscapes--1930-1940; Puget Sound National Bank (Tacoma); Rust Building (Tacoma); Fidelity Building (Tacoma); Pythian Temple (Tacoma); Business districts--Tacoma--1930-1940; Commercial streets--Tacoma--1930-1940;

ca. 1939. Football Jamboree. Group of eight football players draw numbers from hats held by man standing behind a microphone in this night time scene. Ordered by Harold Shaw.

Football players--1930-1940;

ca. 1939. Gig Harbor High School 1939 football team. Front row, left to right, George Gilreath, John Swenson, John Peterson, Donald Ribbe, Coach Husby, Elmer Skahan, Roland Spadoni, Melvin Johnson, Jack Finnigan and Donald Reed. Second row, l to r, Christian Wally (manager), Bill Wight, Marvin McCartney, Bert Perry, bill Parrish, Robert Ryan, Donald Sehmel, James Russo, Jack Wagner, Bill Hayes, Douglas Stremme, Glen Perkins and Edgar Best. Third row, l to r, Frank Foutch, Francis Hahn, Ray Edwards, John Bowman, Warren Watson, Harry Reed, Charles Parkman, Preston Challender, Howard Reed, Roland Adolphson and Richard Brown. The team, coached by Einar Husby, had a respectable season, finishing with 3 wins, 2 ties and 1 loss to the stronger Vashon Pirates. (T. Times 11/2/1939, pg. 26)

Football players--Gig Harbor; Gig Harbor High School (Gig Harbor);

ca. 1939. College of Puget Sound head football coach in 1939, Leo Frank. The Loggers had a disappointing season in 1939, finishing with 1 win and 3 losses. (1940 CPS yearbook "Tamanawas.")

Frank, Leo; College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Football--Tacoma--1930-1940;

ca. 1939. Elevated view of the Hotel Winthrop, circa 1939. By this time, the Winthrop had been open for 14 years, celebrating its grand opening on May 16, 1925. The eleven story hotel was named after explorer and writer Theodore Winthrop whose book "The Canoe and the Saddle" helped popularize the Northwest.

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

ca. 1939. Artistically modified aerial view of West Tacoma and the Tacoma Narrows. The bridge and the ship under it in the photo were painted in. The bridge was not yet complete in 1939. It would open for traffic on July 1, 1940 and go down in dramatic fashion on November 7, 1940.

Aerial views; Aerial photographs; Neighborhoods--Tacoma--1930-1940; Tacoma Narrows Bridge (Tacoma);

ca. 1939. The mixer dock off the west shore created in 1939 to mix cement for the construction of the first Narrows Bridge. It was built between the west pier of the bridge and the west shore. All of the concrete for the bridge and its west anchorage was made here. To the left of the dock is a scow loaded with concrete buckets. ("Bridging the Narrows" by Joe Gotchy)

Tacoma Narrows Bridge (Tacoma); Bridge construction--Tacoma--1930-1940; Suspension bridges--Tacoma; Bridges--Tacoma;

ca. 1939. A caisson, which will form the base of either the west or east pier, being towed out by a tug. On top are two guy derricks. The huge structure was built of hollow concrete sheathed in wood. The bottom was finished with a steel cutting edge. The caisson rose about 50 feet out of the water and the flat top surfaced measured 60 by 120 feet.The caisson became the bottom section of the finished underwater pier as the process of "sinking the piers" was completed; its cutting edge digging into the silt at the bottom of the Sound. The pier was built section by section on top of the original caisson, that sank further into the water with each addition. The derricks were designed to lift each other to the next level as the pier sank. TPL-1576 ("Bridging the Narrows" by Joe Gotchy)

Tacoma Narrows Bridge (Tacoma); Bridge construction--Tacoma--1930-1940; Suspension bridges--Tacoma; Bridges--Tacoma;

Singer and Comedian Jimmy Durante, right in photo, gets a ball autographed by a unidentified player in the locker room of the Pacific Coast League San Diego Padres Baseball Club. (Unnumbered).

Durante, Jimmy, 1893-1980; Baseball; Pacific Coast League; San Diego Padres;

First meal in new womens' residence hall, College of Puget Sound. Nine of 40 women to live in new quarters gather at table with Carolyn Schneider, housemother, and Dr. and Mrs. Edward Todd, college president. The new hall, named Anderson Hall, was built for $75,000. It would be formally dedicated on February 15, 1939. Names of students are listed in the Tacoma Times article dated February 2, 1939. (T. Times, 2/2/1939, p. 10).

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Dormitories--Tacoma; Students--Tacoma--1930-1940; Schneider, Carolyn; Todd, Edward H., 1863-1951; Todd, Florence;

ca. 1939. Oliver family; father and baby on chair, mother and two daughters sitting around him next to a brick fireplace. First names of the family members were not provided. The middle child has a large bow adorning her dark hair.

Families--1930-1940; Fireplaces--1930-1940; Children;

Bob Hayes and his wife pose with skis at Paradise, Mount Rainier, in January of 1939. Adv. comm. Olympia

Hayes, Bob; Hayes, Bob--Family; Skiers;

ca. 1939. Large group of young female skiers at Mount Rainier, most likely from Annie Wright Seminary.

Skiers--1930-1940; Skiing--Mt. Rainier--1930-1940;

Two ice hockey players, one "Meadowsweet", one "Pioneer" with sticks chasing puck on ice rink.

Sports - Hockey - Ice Hockey

ca. 1939. The Tacoma Times began publication in 1903, and eventually grew into a general circulation daily. This photograph taken in 1939 shows Beverly Thompson at her desk speaking on the phone. The board behind her is covered with photographs. (The picture is printed at an angle.) The photograph is autographed "Beverly Thompson-but its terrible." The Tacoma Time ceased publication on March 31, 1949.

Thompson, Beverly; Tacoma Times Publishing Co. (Tacoma)--Employees;

ca. 1939. Stock negative. Young man wearing sandwich board advertising for work, "I am a high school graduate...with average grade 96.2. I will study research chemistry at University of Washington, if I get work..." On Pacific Avenue sidewalk in the 700 block.

Unemployment--Tacoma;

ca. 1939. Ace Furnace and Steel Company, photograph pulled from Richards stock file. Transport trucks parked in front of company. (filed with Argentum)

Ace Furnace & Steel Co. (Tacoma); Heating & ventilation industry--Tacoma--1930-1940;

ca. 1939. New office building for Northwest Door, I. F. Laukes Co., Inc., and George Pompel in Seattle, Washington. Two-story, rounded-corner building with one-story extention. Large lettering denoting "Northwest Door Co." on top section with "Norwood Products" on lower half. Photograph was taken circa 1939.

Northwest Door Co. (Seattle); Office buildings--Seattle;

ca. 1939. Coach and three Orting High School football players standing near brick school building.

Orting High School (Orting); Football players--Orting;

Coach Al Dahlberg and young boy with three Puyallup High School football players. The 1939 Puyallup Vikings were the Puget Sound League Champions.

Puyallup High School (Puyallup); Football players--Puyallup; Dahlberg, Al;