Rhodes Department Store trimmings section. This view of the fabric department was taken in late April of 1946. Rhodes had been in business since 1903. It finally closed in 1974.

Rhodes Brothers Department Store (Tacoma); Department stores--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Rhodes Department Store lingerie section as photographed on April 29, 1946. The venerable downtown department store was located at 950 Broadway and offered quality merchandise at reasonable prices. Its slogan "All Roads Lead to Rhodes" was famous throughout the Puget Sound region. Rhodes had been in business in Tacoma since 1892 but would close its flagship store in late December of 1974.

Rhodes Brothers Department Store (Tacoma); Department stores--Tacoma--1940-1950; Lingerie;

New Ice Arena at South 38th and Union Avenue under construction. For Holroyd Construction Company.

Tacoma Ice Palace (Tacoma);

Harkness Rug Co. is a family owned business that opened in 1921. They have a large selection of rugs, carpets, baby furniture, furniture, linoleum, carpets, tile and appliances. They can still be found at this address today. Interior view of new store, Speed Queen washing machines with rollers, American Kitchen cabinets, Kelvinator refrigerators and other appliances in showroom.

Washing machines; Refrigerators; Cupboards--Tacoma; Showrooms--Tacoma; Appliance stores--Tacoma; Harkness Rug & Furniture Co. (Tacoma);

Group of men in suits sitting on floor, some standing.

West Coast Groceries had their home offices in Tacoma. They were wholesale grocers and had contracts delivering their products throughout the city. Copy of Montague & Weyand Groceries in 1888, photo ordered by West Coast Groceries.

Grocery stores--Tacoma--1880-1890; Montague & Weyand Groceries; West Coast Grocery Co. (Tacoma);

Rehn Motor Company. Staff photo in front of the Chevrolet dealership in Gig Harbor.

Automobile dealerships--Gig Harbor--1940-1950; Rehn Motor Co. (Gig Harbor);

Allen Motor Company, Studebaker dealership. An Open House was held at the new Allen Motor Company Building at 6004 So. Tacoma Way exhibiting the new 1947 Studebaker passenger car and used car premises. The new building was built for $80,000, and was 130 feet by 100 feet. It had a service entrance on South 60th Street as well as an exit onto South Tacoma Way. Allen Motors was an old and established firm in Tacoma. J.K. Gordon was president at this time, James M.H. Gilchrist was vice president and general manager. 7" x 11" format. (T.Times, 10/2/1946, p.2)

Automobile dealerships--Tacoma--1940-1950; Allen Motor Co. (Tacoma);

Ray Ridge Motors for Robert Sconce Advertising. The new 1946 Mercurys at Ray Ridge Motors are being insected closely by several men while women catch up on their most recent activities at the Lincoln-Mercury showroom.

Automobile dealerships--Tacoma--1940-1950; Ray Ridge Motors, Inc. (Tacoma); Automobiles--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Lowell T. Murray. A side view of a very elegant four-door, hard-top automobile. The wide-wall tires and spare tire tucked in against the driver's side fender add to the handsome exterior of this fine automobile. Lowell T. Murray, Sr., a prominent Tacoma industrialist and civic leader, came to Tacoma as a young man from Ohio in 1908 and established the West Fork Timber Company. The Murray's residence on Gravelly Lake was called "Madera". It was the scene of a summer ball honoring house guests Elaine Schultz and Peter Strong August 17, 1946. (T.Times, 8/24/1946, p.7; TNT, 4/30/1958) TPL-8480

Automobiles--Tacoma--1940-1950; Gardens--Tacoma;

Several people stand in the parking lot of the Memorial Presbyterian Church on September 15, 1946, while George Phillips holds a large helium balloon aloft. George Phillips was already known as the "whiskey bottle evangelist" of Tacoma. For the time being he has abandoned his bottles in favor of balloons for delivering evangelical messages around the world. Mr. Phillips reported that gas filled balloons sometimes travel 200 miles an hour when they reach high altitudes. (T.Times, 9/16/1946, p.1)

Balloons--Gig Harbor--1940-1950; Phillips, George W.; Evangelists; Memorial Presbyterian Church (Gig Harbor);

Several people stand in the parking lot of the Memorial Presbyterian Church holding helium balloons aloft. It is September 15, 1946, and the end of the Christian Endeavor rally. George Phillips is standing on the far right. Mr. Phillips had sent evangelican messages around the world for many years. He is now trying balloons for sending his messages. The balloons are constructed of heavy rubber and expand to 30 inches in diameter. They are not fully inflated on the ground or they would burst in the upper atmosphere. (T.Times, 9/16/1946, p.1)

Balloons--Gig Harbor--1940-1950; Phillips, George W.; Evangelists; Memorial Presbyterian Church (Gig Harbor);

Ten members of the Jefferson Playfield baseball team. They wear uniforms printed with "6th Ave. Old Timer" on them. According to Richards Studio notes, the team was sponsored by the 6th Ave merchants.

Baseball players--Tacoma--1940-1950; Old Timers (Baseball Team); Teenagers--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Washington Steel & Welding Company. A boat is sitting in the ways building surrounded by scaffolding. Wooden walkways take the workmen to all levels of the boat. Washington Steel & Welding advertised they could provide portable welding and steel fabricating using acetylene and electric welding of all kinds. Both Tacoma Boat Building and Pacific Boat had hulls fabricated by Washington Steel and Welding. The ship's sections, up to 30,000 pounds, were fabricated in the shop, and then brought to the ways for assembling and welding. It took approximately 250 tons of steel for each 112 foot hull. (T.Times, 8/30/1946, p.6) TPL-8909

Boat & ship industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Washington Steel & Welding Co. (Tacoma); Steel industry--Tacoma--1940-1950;

State Board of Vocational Education. Two teenage boys with a bull at the Puyallup fairgrounds.

Bulls; Teenagers--Puyallup--1940-1950; State Board of Vocational Education (Puyallup);

Broderick & Bascomb Wire Rope Company. Loading lumber onto a flat-bed truck. These are large timbers, probably 12" x 12" square. A man just behind the cab of the truck directs the lumber to the proper position.

Cable industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Broderick & Bascomb Wire Rope Co. (Tacoma); Lumber industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Trucks--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Ex-mayor Harry P. Cain, candidate for US Senator, listens to Carroll Reece, Republican National Chariman, during the Pierce County Republican Convention at the Crystal Ballroom, Winthrop Hotel. Reece, the ex-congressman from Tennessee delivered the major address on August 6, 1946. Harry P. Cain would go on to wage a successful campaign and win election in November of that year. (T. Times, 8-6-46, p. 2, T.Times, 8-7-46, p.1) ALBUM 13.

Cain, Harry P., 1906-1979; Mayors--Tacoma--1940-1950; Reece, Carroll; Political campaigns; Public speaking--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Prosecutor Thor Tollefson, Candidate for House of Representatives, Carroll Reece, Republican National Chariman and ex-Mayor Harry P. Cain, candidate for Senator, confer during the August, 1946, Pierce County Republican Convention at the Crystal Ballroom, Winthrop Hotel. Reece was the former longtime Tennessee congressman before his election as Republican National Chairman. (T. Times, 8-6-46, p. 2, T.Times, 8-7-46, p. 1) Album # 12

Cain, Harry P., 1906-1979; Mayors--Tacoma--1940-1950; Reece, Carroll; Political campaigns; Tollefson, Thor C., 1901-1982;

An aerial view of Philadelphia Quartz' plant on the Tacoma tideflats. Philadelphia Quartz was one of the leading producers of soluble silicates. The company had plants in Berkeley, Los Angeles and Tacoma. The silicates were components of the adhesives used in plywood production and corrugated paper board for the container industry. They were used in city and industrial waterways to clarify raw and waste water and stop rusting.

Chemical industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; Minerals; Philadelphia Quartz Co. of California (Tacoma); Aerial photographs;

In September of 1946, Spencer Hunt, about five years old, wasn't old enough to trade in his cowboy outfit and six shooter for pencils and paper. He had forgotten that it was the first day of school and when he went outside after breakfast, his older friends were already in class. So, he decided to set a spell and wait for the end of the day bell when his playmates would be free again. (T.Times, 9/4/1946, p.1)

Children--Tacoma--1940-1950; Hunt, Spencer; Cowboys--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Tom Breneman's "Breakfast in Hollywood Show" at Tacoma's Roxy (Pantages) Theater on August 20, 1946. Masters of Ceremonies from KJR Radio with participants in the Goofy Hat contest. Bill Gunning reaches out to gently touch the live kitten tied to a woman's hat while the other contestants look on. The hat with the candy Easter Bunny was the winner; however, the live kitten and hat with plastic helicopter may have also placed. Standing next to Al Priddy, another contestant is holding three boxes of Ivory Flakes, perhaps a consolation prize. (No Negative) ALBUM 7.

Contests--Tacoma--1940-1950; Awards; Orchids--Tacoma; Hats--1940-1950; Priddy, Al; Gunning, Bill;

For Mrs. Coors. Blanche Coors is president of the Ladies Musical Club and is the impresario of the winter season's programs of vocalists sponsored by the club. Blanche Coors is seen here at her desk located at Fisher's store handing tickets to Betty Fisher who has just bought tickets to the Strauss festival. (T.Times, 10/19/1946, p.7)

Coors, Blanche; Fisher, Berry; Ladies Musical Club (Tacoma); Ticket offices--Tacoma--1940-1950; Fisher's Department Store (Tacoma);

Mrs. Cole, girl in dancing costume. A young girl stands on one leg with the toes of her other foot under her chin. She holds both arms out to her sides, balancing with great poise while performing this difficult posture.

Dancers--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Nalley's Inc. Pickle barrels. Rows of wide barrels stand in an open factory. Barrels in the foreground are full of pickles while those in the background are empty. Foam on top of the pickles and brine follow the gridlines of the nets protecting the pickles. Open beams are overhead and windows line the far wall.

Food industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Nalley's, Inc. (Tacoma);

Marcus Nalley, founder of Nalley's Inc., and L. Evert Landon, long-time employee, expanded their product line with the L & N Pickle Company. In 1941, a pickle factory was the first of many buildings built on the company's newly acquired l0-acre site in the Center Street District, now Nalley Valley. Women on the pickle assembly line pack cucumbers into glass jars for processing, capping and labeling as Nalley's "Treasure Pickles".

Food industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Nalley's, Inc. (Tacoma); Assembly-line methods--Tacoma; Pickles; Women--Tacoma--1940-1950; Bottles;

In this photograph taken for Nalley's Inc. in 1946, an unidentified employee uses a dip net to transfer pickles from a large wooden vat to a wooden crate. The forklift in the background will be used to move the crate of pickles to the canning line where they will be put in glass jars. For over 60 years, Nalley's produced pickles at their plant in Nalley Valley. In 2002 Dean Foods, the company that purchased Nalley's pickle operation, shut down the pickle plant in Tacoma.

Food industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Nalley's, Inc. (Tacoma); Hoisting machinery;

Frank W. Patrick was named athletic director and head coach of the CPS Loggers football team at the College of Puget Sound in 1946. He was a former University of Pittsburgh and National Pro All-American football star. He played with the Chicago Cardinals of the National Professional League in 1938 and 1939. At the 1937 Rose Bowl game, playing for the Univ. of Pittsburg, he carried the ball for two touchdowns and helped defeat the Huskies 21-0. Coach Patrick turned in his resignation after CPS's 1948 losing season. (Tamanawas, 1946)

Football--Tacoma--1940-1950; Coaching (Athletics)--Tacoma; College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Patrick, Frank W.

Douglas Fir Plywood Association. A young logger, carrying an adze, inspects the base of a newly cut old growth douglas fir. Roots are sticking up around the log where they were torn when the tree was felled. Douglas fir was named for David Douglas, a young Scotch botanist who arrived in Astoria, Oregon, April 9, 1825. The mammoth tree was found at 1,050 feet elevation, west of Packwood on the timber holdings of the Northwest Door Co. of Tacoma, where a cross section of the tree was displayed until 1965. The diameter of the stump measured out at 13 feet 4 inches, a record size. (TNT 8/21/1946, pg. 1; "The Plywood Age", Robert M. Cour) TPL-3234

Forests--Washington; Logs; Lumber industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Northwest Door Co., Inc. (Tacoma); Tree stumps--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Douglas Fir Plywood Association. On July 30, 1946, Fred R. Davis, left, and Percy J. Maras stand in front of a downed old growth Douglas fir tree. The cross section of the log is almost 14 feet, more than twice the height of the men. A section from the foot of this log was hauled to the Northwest Door Company in Tacoma. The tree was cut by the Davis & Maras Co.from the Northwest Door holdings southwest of Mount Rainier in the center of Western Washington. It took three men working with axes and a power saw one and one half days to down the mammoth tree. Two of the men were reported by a Maras family member to be the "Miller brothers." Its lowest limb was 95 feet from the ground level. However, the top part of the tree had been shattered by natural causes, possibly lightning, 198 feet from the base and the tree was beginning to rot. Rings show that the tree was approximately 586 years old. (TNT 8/21/1946, pg. 1) (identification supplied by Anthony "Spike" Maras)

Forests--Washington; Logs; Lumber industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Northwest Door Co., Inc. (Tacoma); Tree stumps--Tacoma--1940-1950; Davis, Fred R.; Maras, Percy J.;

The 1946 Ford wood panaled station wagon owned by the Richards Studio sits at the far end of a rough-cut log bridge that spans a shallow river in a heavily forested area in Washington. (This image was scanned from a 4X5 proof print. The negative is no longer available.)

Forests--Washington; Station wagons; Bridges--Washington--1940-1950; Logging roads