Union Club and University Club charter members hang a new charter over the 1888 fireplace for the merger of the two clubs into the University Union Club. L. to r: Dr. Charles McCreery, Dr. William McCreery, Melville Pugh, John S. Baker, and George P. Fishburne. (T. Times, 6/71939, p. 20).

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Tacoma Railway & Power workers using a special lever to pry-up streetcar rails along Pacific Avenue. A crowd, full of "sidewalk superintendents," gathers to watch the activity. Hotel Olympus in the background. The last streetcar in Tacoma was removed from service in April of 1938; replaced by city buses. (T. Times, 6/8/1939, p. 3).

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Work began on June 6, 1939 to remove the streetcar tracks on Pacific Avenue between South 7th and South 17th Streets in downtown Tacoma. Employees of general contractors, Coluccio & Frasca, used a power shovel to scoop up and clear asphaltic concrete that was laid 17 years prior. An unidentified worker watches as the crane removes a large pile of bricks and debris from the street. Buildings in the background include: (left) the Colonial Hotel and the (Old) City Hall; (right), the Bradley Hotel, the Jail (built in 1929) and Public Safety Building ( formerly the Northern Pacific headquarters). (T. Times 6/8/1939, pg. 3)

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Tacoma Railway & Power crew preparing equipment on Pacific Avenue at South 8th Street to tear up streetcar tracks. Crowd of men in background observing the ongoing work. A special lever had been devised to wrench the heavy rails from their base for removal. This would be followed by removal of the old road surface material and repaving by Coluccio & Frasca.(T. Times, 6/8/1939, p. 3).

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Coluccio & Frasca crew at work on Pacific Ave. First, streetcar tracks were removed by a Tacoma Railway & Power crew. Then, the power shovel scooped-up asphaltic concrete, bricks and debris from the street. Following demolition, Pacific Avenue was repaved in concrete. (Old) City Hall is in background. (T. Times, 6/8/1939, p. 3).

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Men are fascinated by the street demolition, as a large crowd gathers in the street at South 9th and Pacific Avenue to watch work crew and crane removing streetcar rails. Many of the "sidewalk superintendents" made the observation a daily ritual. Pacific Ave. was repaved from 7th to 17th Streets. Lovera Cigar Store, Seagram's billboard and Bowes Building in background. (T. Times 6/8/1939, pg. 3; 6/12/1939, pg. 1)

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Henry A. Leaver (far left), Tacoma Roadway Superintendent, and Curtiss Hill, Tacoma Railway & Power president, watched in June of 1939 as a crew of Tacoma Railway & Power employees used a track removal invention of Hill's. The workers used the special lever to pry up the street car tracks on Pacific Avenue. The last streetcar in Tacoma was removed from service in April of 1938. In 1939 the steel tracks were removed and sold as salvage to Japan, who used the steel to help build its war arsenal against China. The Western Auto Supply store at 713-17 Pacific Avenue is in background. (T. Times, 6/8/1939, p. 3).

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A power shovel is used by general contractors Coluccio & Frasca to remove the asphaltic concrete laid seventeen years ago on Pacific Ave. In one day, the shovel was able to rip up and clear more than a block of paving, from 7th to 8th streets, on the east side. The old streetcar tracks were being removed and Pacific Ave., from 7th to 17th, repaved. Old City Hall in the background. (T. Times, 6/8/1939, p. 3).

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A steam shovel hard at work, removing large chunks of the old asphaltic concrete on Pacific Ave. In a multi step process, the old streetcar tracks were being removed from Pacific Ave., the old surface removed and the avenue from 7th to 17th repaved. Old City Hall in the background. (T. Times, 6/8/1939, p. 3).

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Tacoma Railway & Power Co. workers and officials on Pacific Avenue as they prepare equipment to remove the streetcar rails, prior to removal of the old street surface and repaving.Tacoma's last streetcar was taken out of service April of 1938, replaced by city buses. Repaving contractors Coluccio and Frasca bid $73,000 to repave Pacific Avenue from 7th to 17th Streets. The TR & P railway crew is using a special lever device to wrench the heavy rails from their bases. Western Auto Supply store in background. (T. Times 6/8/1939, p. 3).

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Stadium High School's 56th annual graduation exercises, held June 8th at the Armory for the Class of 1939. Students at the back of the photograph, audience in foreground. The graduating class totalled 653 students and the ceremony was estimated to be attended by over 2500 persons. The sign "Education for What?" states the theme of the four student commencement speakers. Betty Binns, Helen Phill, and Robert Elliott tied for valedictory honors, each completing 3 years of study with straight A's. Class president Maynard Miller joined them as a speaker. (T.Times 6/7/1939, pg. 5; 6/9/39, pg. 1; 6/10/39, pg. 1)

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Lincoln High School Class of 1939 graduation at the Armory, held June 9, 1939. The 707 graduating seniors are seated at the rear of the photograph, audience in the foreground. (T. Times 6/10/1939, pg. 11) (filed with Argentum)

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Men in suits and hats watch fascinated as workers on Pacific Ave. remove the streetcar tracks in front of the Johnson-Cox Print Co. and the business office of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (PI) newspaper. (T. Times, 6/8, p. 3).

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Men watch a power shovel and work crew crumble and remove streetcar tracks and multiple layers of old street paving, down to the roadbed, along the 800 block of Pacific Avenue. Asphaltic concrete laid 17 years earlier was replaced with concrete. (T. Times, 6/8, p. 3).

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Camp Murray. Men ready the summer camp. In food supply room; Pvt. lst Class R. B. Patterson with clipboard, Tech Sgt. H. B. Cary with handtruck, Sergt. J. W. McBee weighing lima beans on scale. 116th Quartermaster Reg. (T. Times, 6/13, p. 3).

Lincoln High School Class of 1939 graduation at the Armory, held June 9th, 1939. Girl and boy at microphone, students seated, audience in foreground. Lincoln graduated 707 seniors, who listened to a total of 26 speakers at the ceremony. For Leonard Langlow, Tacoma Times. (T. Times 6/10/1939, pg. 11)

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Al Dillon uses a excavator to dig up the streetcar tracks and old paving along Pacific Avenue from 7th to 17th Streets. Progress came to downtown Tacoma in June of 1939 when the city began the re-paving project that would eventually remove all the streetcar rails in downtown Tacoma. Coluccio & Frasca were paid $73,000 to rip up the old brick and asphalt, and pave the ten block section of Pacific. Work started June 8th and was completed by June 29th. (T. Times, 6/8/1939, p. 3).

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On June 9, 1939, the unidentified University-Union Club doorman opened the automobile door for E. F. Cardin, Jr. and Lorain Cousins, in formal attire, to enter the Club under the canvas-covered awning. The doorman's elegant white uniform added glamour to the evening event, attended by 500 guests, celebrating the clubs' merger. By 1938, the Union Club had been located in the elegant building at 539 Broadway for 50 years. In 1939, a decision was reached by the Union Club and the University Club to merge into one, the University-Union Club, at this location. The membership for the joint club was full at 450 members. Mr. Cardin was a trustee for the new organization. (T. Times 6/7/1939, pg. 11; 6/3/1939, pg. 5- articles only)

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College of Puget Sound graduation exercises. Graduates, proudly wearing their caps and gowns, march three across into Jones Hall. At the 51st commencement exercises held at CPS, 92 seniors and 7 post graduates would be receiving their diplomas. The graduation ceremony was held on Saturday, June 10, 1939, at 10a.m. at Jones Hall. (T. Times 6/9/39, pg.1; 6/10/39, pg. 1)

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College of Puget Sound 1939 graduation ceremonies. Large crowd gathered outside around fenced obelisk (T. Times)

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A boy is playing on the beach at Point Defiance with a girl who is wearing a dress, sandals, and ribbon in her hair. She is pouring water from a Snow White watering can into a decorated bucket. The young boy is identified as the son of Margaret Russell Herrod. This photograph is a cropped version of D8433 image 3. TPL-9163

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Savings and Loan Convention. Large group on Winthrop Hotel roof, gathered for Washington "Golden Jubilee", marking 50 years of Statehood. (filed with Argentum)

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Jay Busch sitting on a stone wall, and looking dejected, with his black Cocker Spaniel dog, Blackie. He has been watching the ecstatic faces of 19,000 Tacoma youngsters pouring out of the public schools on the last day of school. At five years of age, and not yet old enough for school, he wonders just what is this "vacation" that the school kids are so happy about and why doesn't he get one. Jay is the son of Dr. and Mrs. C.J. Busch. (T. Times 6/13/1939 p.1).

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Five year old Jay Busch and his best friend "Blackie" look dejectedly at the camera. On June 14, 1939, He has been watching the neighborhood kids pour out of the public school ecstatic and shouting about their "vacation." He's not old enough for school and he's afraid not old enough for this wonderful thing called a "vacation." Jay is the son of Dr. and Mrs. C.J. Busch. (T. Times 6/13/1939 p.1).

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Uniformed keeper Oscar V. Brown at Brown's Point Lighthouse points to an entry in the lighthouse book and explains its significance to two teenage visitors wearing bathing suits. Shirley Jackson signs the register while Anita Rowe patiently waits her turn to sign. Mr. Brown has been the keeper of this lighthouse for 36 years. He will turn 70 on October 19 and will take mandatory retirement November 1st. The first lighthouse at this location was a shaky wooden structure. It was replaced in 1934 with this white concrete building. (T. Times 6/15/1939, pg. 1)

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Oscar V. Brown stands near the base of the Browns Point lighthouse in this photograph from June, 1939. Mr. Brown had been keeper of the lighthouse at Browns Point for 36 years. When he started work there, in 1903, the lighthouse was a shaky-looking, wooden structure. The original building was replaced with a white, concrete structure in 1934, erected by the United States Coast Guard. Mr. Brown retired on November 1, 1939 - at the age of 70. See feature newspaper story in the Tacoma Times by Joe Mitchell. (T. Times 6/15/1939 p.1.)

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Junior Chamber of Commerce's entrants for the Golden Jubilee Queen's contest. Three women and two men walk arm-in-arm across the landscaped yard of a two-story Queen Anne-style home.

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Junior Chamber of Commerce's entrant for Golden Jubilee Queen. Two men cast an admiring glance at a young woman. dressed in suit, hat, and gloves, as she prepares to enter door of a Colonial-style residence. She is Florine (Sis) Steel of 3308 No. 30th St., one of 35 young women entered to reign over the Golden Jubilee celebration, July 16-23, 1939. (Tacoma Sunday Ledger, 6-18-1939, 1-B-cropped photo of Miss Steel)

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Junior Chamber of Commerce's 1939 entrant for Golden Jubilee Queen. Two men greet young woman at garden gate beside shingled house. She is Florine (Sis) Steel of 3308 No. 30th St. She was one of 35 girls entered in the preliminary competition for Jubilee Queen held at the Winthrop Hotel on June 26th; out of the 35, only six were to continue to the finals. The Queen would reign over the Golden Jubilee celebration July 16-23, 1939. A Miss Pierce County would also be selected from the top six. (Tacoma Sunday Ledger, 6-18-1939, 1-B, alt. photo of Miss Steel)

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Junior Chamber of Commerce's entrants for Golden Jubilee Queen. Barbara Rothermel (left) and Donna Rue Teats strolled down Broadway in Tacoma's business district on June 16, 1939. The duo were contestants for the Golden Jubilee Queen with preliminary competition to be held ten days later at the Winthrop Hotel. Both smiling young women are dressed in hats and gloves and carry handbags. Miss Rothermel has a light-weight coat over her outfit while Miss Teats is dressed in a dark two-piece suit. (Tacoma Sunday Ledger, 6-18-1939, 1-B-alt. photo)

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