A two-story home is shown from the lower level that has an outside door from the basement built into the sloping property. The exterior of the home has been painted a light color and an arbor that has been built across the entire back of the house is painted a dark color. Lawn chairs, a sand box, a tricycle, a lawn mower and a bench can also be seen. Ordered by Beattie Construction (Beatty).
Combination living and dining room designed and built by Tietz Construction for William Tietz. The formal dining room was not a feature of fifties home design; dining rooms extended off of the living room for more casual dining. The combined living-dining room is 38 feet long with 24 feet of six foot deep windows. Massive sandstone forms the modern fireplace, continuing into the slight partition and into a planting wall behind the sofa. Each stone was hand-chipped on the scene. Deep toned walls of the dining area shade into a paler tone in the living room and blend with soft rose broadloom carpet. Except the kitchen, baths and recreation room, the entire house is finished with wall to wall broadloom carpet. (TNT 4/28/1951, pg. C-12)
Living rooms--Tacoma--1950-1960; Dining rooms--Tacoma--1950-1960; Fireplaces--Tacoma--1950-1960; Tietz Construction Inc. (Lakewood); Tietz, Bill--Homes & haunts;
Interior of home at 1254 So. Fairview Dr. The dining room is divided from the living room with a stone extension from the fireplace used as a planter for houseplants and a room divider. A sitting room is separated from the main living area with pocket doors, open in this picture. For another view of the same room from the opposite angle, see A55971-6.
Living rooms--Tacoma--1950-1960; Furniture--1950-1960; Studies (Rooms)--Tacoma--1950-1960; Dining rooms--Tacoma--1950-1960;
New carpet at the Rialto Apartments. These apartments were constructed in 1918 and originally named the Rhodes Apartments. During this fifties common area remodel, the wainscot on the walls was topped by molding and new wall paper. Apartment doors open off of the narrow halls and a fire extinguisher is attached to the wall. A window at the end of the hall supplies light and air.
New carpet at the Rialto Apartments. These apartments were constructed in 1918 and were originally named the Rhodes Apartments. The staircase provides access to the floors of the multi story building. New carpet and wall paper have been installed in the fifties common area remodel.
Exposure from Lloyd Suiter Tire Co., 1955 Pacific Ave., looking each way down Pacific Ave. On the right hand side of the picture is Hunt and Mottet Co. wholesale hardware (2112), Coast Auto Wrecking (2120) and Tacoma Junk Co. (2128). On the left hand side of the street is the G.L. Walls Gas Station (2101), the Bone Dry Shoe Manufacturing Co. occupies 2113-2115 Pacific Ave. The city bus headed for Manitou occupies the foreground.
Commercial streets--Tacoma--1950-1960; Business districts--Tacoma--1950-1960; Buses--Tacoma--1950-1960;
Exposure from Lloyd Suiter Tire Co., 1955 Pacific Ave., looking each way down Pacific Ave. On the right hand side is Union Station (1735 Pacific Ave.), Schoenfelds and the Eleventh Street bridge. On the left hand side is Harry Brown Confections Inc. Wholesale (1932-34), Westinghouse Electric Corporation (1930), Webster-Robinson Machinery and Supply Co. (1924), Johnson Brush Co. (1920), American Plumbing and Steam Supply Co. (1908-16) and Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. is on the corner of Pacific and 19th. Streetlights are on either side of the wide thoroughfare. TPL-9382
Commercial streets--Tacoma--1950-1960; Business districts--Tacoma--1950-1960; Union Station (Tacoma);
1950's Contemporary home with a boxy design. A late model car is parked in front of the one car garage. There is a living area over the garage. The house is extremely square and appear to have a balcony on the flat roof.
Rain damage to hillside at Pearl Richards' home. Mrs. Richards was the widow of Paul Richards and the mother of Turner, Bob, Ed and Nelson Richards, owners of the Richards Studio. The damage was the result of Tacoma's worst rainstorm in 30 years, on Feb. 8-9, 1951. (TNT 2/9/1951 & 2/10/1951, pg. 1)
Rain damage to hillside at Pearl Richards' home. Pearl Richards was the widow of Paul Richards and the matriarch of the Richards Studio clan. Tacoma's worst rainstorm in 30 years began at 6 p.m. on 2/8/1951, and devastated the city of Tacoma and Pierce County causing several hundred thousand dollars of damage. (TNT 2/9/1951 & 2/10/1951, pg. 1)
Exposure to show the rain damage at the residence of Mrs. Pearl E. Richards, 103 East Road. Tacoma's worst rainstorm in almost 30 years began at 6 p.m. on Feb. 8, 1951. Between 6 p.m. Thursday and 6 p.m. Friday, 3.12 inches of rain fell; the heaviest since 1921. Damage was reported throughout the city and county, mostly due to landslides and flooding. Salmon Beach was evacuated and portions of Portland Ave. and Marine View Dr. were closed due to washout. Loss topped several hundred thousand dollars. Mrs. Richards was the widow of Paul Richards and the mother of photographers Turner, Bob, Ed and Nelson Richards. (TNT 2/9/1951 pg.1, TNT 2/10/1951 pg. 1)
This house at the corner of North 27th and Tyler was built in 1907 not as a private residence but as a grocery store. From 1908 through 1918 it was the Andrew Larson Grocery. In 1919 the store was taken over by Boe Pederson. Shortly after that, Mr. Pederson opened a grocery at 313 So. 9th. He remodeled his store at 4202 No. 27th into a single family home. This photograph was taken in February of 1951. TPL-9485
The exterior of the Charles Pearson home. This one-story ranch-style home has been faced with stone around the front entrance. Dark-stained clapboards cover the remainder of the exterior with the exception of around the smaller windows on the front. A line of clerestory windows is seen over the lower roof line. A two-car garage is to the left, not shown in the photograph. Charles T. Pearson was an architect with Lea, Pearson and Richards . Ordered by Douglas Fir Plywood Association.
Interior exposure of the home of Harry Rinker at 1254 So. Fairview Dr. for Tietz Construction. The large stone fireplace extends out into a built in planter box for house plants, and also divides the living and dining rooms. The living room is separated from the sitting room, or library, by folding pocket doors. For another view of the same room from the opposite angle, see A56012-8.
Living rooms--Tacoma--1950-1960; Furniture--1950-1960; Studies (Rooms)--Tacoma--1950-1960;
This photograph of the recently completed million dollar F.W. Woolworth Co. building, 955 Broadway, was taken from across Commerce St., for the Roy T. Earley Co., engineers in January of 1951. The Woolworth store replaced the Fidelity Building that had stood at the corner of 9th and Broadway from 1890 until it was demolished in 1949. The News Tribune called the new building "the most up-to-date beautiful store of its kind in the world." After the store closed in 1993, it was sold and transformed into a giant telephone switching station with no public access, and its people-oriented uses limited to the art gallery space created in its street level windows.
Progress photograph of the American Apartments, later opened as the Vista Manor Apartments, at 319 Tacoma Ave. No., for the Douglas Fir Plywood Association. The building was designed by Lance, McGuire & Muri, Architects, and built by the C.F. Davidson Construction Company. The building was constructed with 16 stories and 133 units at a cost of one million dollars.
Apartment houses--Tacoma--1950-1960; Vista Manor Apartments (Tacoma); Progress photographs--1950-1960;
Wollander Far West Homes at Mountlake Terrace. A row of one-story, rambler-style houses from the Mountlake Terrace housing development are shown in December of 1950. The houses appear to have similar floor plans, being turned left to right to create some variance in the facades of the homes.
Houses--Mountlake Terrace; Real estate business--Mountlake Terrace; Neighborhoods--Mountlake Terrace; Wollander Farwest Homes (Tacoma);
Wollander Far West Homes at Mountlake Terrace. A one-story house built of cement block located in the Mountlake Terrace housing development was photographed in December of 1950. The exterior has been painted a light color. A decorative screen has been added to the left of the front door.
Houses--Mountlake Terrace; Real estate business--Mountlake Terrace; Neighborhoods--Mountlake Terrace; Wollander Farwest Homes (Tacoma); Housing developments--Mountlake Terrace;
Wollander Far West Homes at Mountlake Terrace. A one-story house in the Mountlake Terrace housing development built of cement block is shown. The home in December of 1950 was probably occupied as several full glass bottles of milk stand on the front porch.
Houses--Mountlake Terrace; Real estate business--Mountlake Terrace; Neighborhoods--Mountlake Terrace; Wollander Farwest Homes (Tacoma); Housing developments--Mountlake Terrace;
A Trendmaker House designed by W.A. Wollander. A newly constructed, one-story ranch house with a low-pitched roof, over-hanging eves, picture windows and a wide, brick chimney sits on the highest part of the lot.
Wollander Homes. A view of several one-story, ranch-style homes built of concrete blocks with cedar shake roofs along a curving residential street. The lawns are large with concrete driveways also serving as walkways. A few trees have been left standing in the housing development. Ordered by W.A. Wollander. TPL-8309
Houses--Tacoma; Housing developments--Tacoma; Suburban life--Tacoma; Wollander Homes (Tacoma);
Wollander Far West Homes at Mountlake Terrace. A one-story house in the Mountlake Terrace housing development built of cement block is shown in December of 1950. The driveway is along the left side. The roof line has included a covered walkway to the front door.
Houses--Mountlake Terrace; Real estate business--Mountlake Terrace; Neighborhoods--Mountlake Terrace; Wollander Farwest Homes (Tacoma); Housing developments--Mountlake Terrace;
Wollander Far West Homes at Mountlake Terrace. A row of one-story houses in the Mountlake Terrace housing development built of cement block and pictured in December of 1950. The sign along the road reads, "Dura-Plex, Three Bedrooms, Recreation Room, Double Plumbing, $8,999."
Houses--Mountlake Terrace; Real estate business--Mountlake Terrace; Neighborhoods--Mountlake Terrace; Wollander Farwest Homes (Tacoma); Housing developments--Mountlake Terrace;
Wallander Homes. A view of the front of a one-story, ranch-style home built of concrete blocks with a cedar shake roof. A brick chimney comes through the roof near the one-car garage. A brick flower box has been built by the front door. Ordered by W.A. Wollander.
Houses--Tacoma--1950-1960; Wollander Homes (Tacoma);
The exterior of the old B.F. Goodrich building. B.F. Goodrich moved to their new location at 707 Pacific Avenue in May 1950. Lloyd Suiter Tire Company had taken over this location by 1951. Lloyd Suiter had formerly been located at 2302 Pacific Avenue. Lloyd Suiter died in April 1949. Ted L. Fix served as president of the Lloyd Suiter Tire Company in 1951. Wesley Maitland served as secretary. Ordered by Lloyd Suiter Tire Company, Mrs. McGorran.
Exterior of the snow-dusted home of William J. and Eva B. Parker. The three-story, Spanish-style house with a tile roof and stucco exterior was built in 1928 for James L. Garvin. A Mercury or Hudson automobile is parked on the other side of the street. William J. Parker was president of Parker Paint Manufacturing Company.
Houses--Tacoma--1950-1960; Parker, William J.--Homes & haunts; Automobiles--Tacoma--1950-1960;
An elevated view of Pacific Avenue looking south from the 900 block. The Riviera Theatre is shown on the lower right corner at 906 Pacific Avenue. Ghilarducci's California Florists is seen across Pacific at 909. The Provident Building is at 915 Pacific. The Bank of California and the Washington Building are prominent in the next block. Peoples Department Store was on the corner across 11th Street. Bankers Trust Building at 1111, the Puget Sound National Bank Building at 1119 and the National Bank of Washington at 1123 Pacific filled most of the following block. Shoenfeld's Furniture is seen prominently at 1423 Pacific Ave. TPL-2299
Business districts--Tacoma; Commercial streets--Tacoma--1950-1960;
