Northwest ORCA

Bonnie Pinckney telling a story

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Susan Johnson telling a story

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Part of Community Event Collection

Rebecca Solverson sharing the Hilltop Story Plaque project

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Part of Community Event Collection

Armed: A DanCe Demonstration video

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Part of Community Event Collection

Strozier, Felix

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Part of Community Event Collection

Johnson, Susan

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Part of Community Event Collection

Torrez, Alyssa

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Part of Community Event Collection

Wing, Skylyn

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Part of Community Event Collection

Hilltop Library Planning Committee Group Oral History

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Part of Hilltop Library Planning Committee Records

Hilltop Library Planning Committee includes: front row, Bil Moss and Billie Johnstone; back row, Ellen Smith, Al Nurse and Linda Oliver. This group oral history interview was taken by dindria barrow on behalf of the Community Archives Center of the Tacoma Public Library at the Red Elm Cafe on October 13, 2022.

Tidbits from Ten, Vol 1 No 2

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Part of Happenings on Hilltop

Tidbits from Ten, Vol 1 No 6

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Happenings on Hilltop, Vol 2 No 5

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Happenings on Hilltop, Vol 2 No 8

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Happenings on Hilltop, Vol 2 No 10

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Part of Happenings on Hilltop

Happenings on Hilltop, Vol 2 No 14

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Happenings On Hilltop, Vol 3 No 4

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Happenings On Hilltop, Vol 5 No 5

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Part of Happenings on Hilltop

Hilltop Area - 11

5.1.2-TNT0032H
0/04/1990

Part of Tacoma News Tribune Photograph Files

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

Hilltop Area - 16

5.1.2-TNT0037H
11/17/1990

Part of Tacoma News Tribune Photograph Files

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

Hilltop Area - 22

5.1.2-TNT0043H
10/01/1999

Part of Tacoma News Tribune Photograph Files

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.

Crimes - Drugs - 1

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1988/03/24

Part of Tacoma News Tribune Photograph Files

Back of photo: A Tacoma police officer snapped the hand cuffs on a suspect who was arrested during a raid on a South Tacoma home by Tacoma Police and Pierce County Sheriff S.W.A.T. teams Wednesday morning. The home was found to contain a marijuana growing room. Three people were arrested. (bruce kellman 3-23)

In this photo, Robert A. Jones was handcuffed. He and two others were charged with unlawful possession and intent to sell a controlled substance. Also charged with growing a controlled substance. Bruce Kellman photo

East Side Tacoma Neighborhood - 1

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08/31/1989

Part of Tacoma News Tribune Photograph Files

Back of Photo:
A crowd of neighbors listens intently to speakers trying to stop the Tacoma Rescue Mission from moving to a site across from Puget Sound Hospital.
Bill Hunter/Photo