ca. 1979. The gaily striped awning decorates the exterior of Tutor Craft Interiors at 1531 Market St. In 1979, a newly remodeled store had opened following a disastrous fire in Jan. of 1978. The business had opened in 1944 and specialized in custom draperies.
ca. 1979. View from Pacific looking west. On the left is the Last Chance Tavern, 1504-06 Jefferson Ave.; the Sproule-Bergheim Bldg. built in 1905. This was the location of the Cow Butter Store from 1901-1942. The building on the right with the broken windows is 1518 Pacific. In the background are the Commerce St. sides of 1523 Broadway (left) and 1519-21 Broadway. The Williams & Co. Bldg., 1518 Pacific, was built in 1906, G.W. Bullard, architect. It was previously home to the 1518 Cabaret and later Nativity House (1517 Commerce.)
Cityscapes--Tacoma--1970-1980; Last Chance Tavern (Tacoma);
ca. 1979. Parking lot at Union Station, 1717 Pacific Ave., located at the north end and behind the station. Schoenfelds, 1423 Pacific, can be seen in the background.
L. Schoenfeld & Sons (Tacoma); Furniture stores--Tacoma--1970-1980; Union Station (Tacoma); Parking lots--Tacoma--1970-1980;
ca. 1979. Side of the Sprague Building, 1501-09 Pacific Ave., and view of parking lot behind. The structure was built in 1889, designed by the architectural firm of Pickles & Sutton and is on the City and National Registry. It has, since 1996, been occupied by United Way as their Betye Martin Baker Human Services Center.
ca. 1979. South 19th St., circa 1979; looking up the hill past the railroad tracks on the left are the Tioga Building (1901 Jefferson) and the Swiss Hall (1902-04 Jefferson.) In 1995, South 19th St. between Pacific and Jefferson was closed to traffic and made part of the University of Washington, Tacoma campus. It is the site of the school's grand staircase.
University of Washington (Tacoma); Tioga Building (Tacoma); Swiss Hall (Tacoma);
ca. 1979. View of the back portion of the original St. Joseph Hospital, 1812 So. I St. circa 1979, with the J St. Standpipe in the right background. The hospital was built in 1914 and demolished in 1982. The standpipe was completed in 1890 and is located near St. Joseph Hospital.
Water towers--Tacoma; Tacoma Dept. of Public Utilities, Water Division (Tacoma); J Street Standpipe (Tacoma); St. Josephs Hospital & School of Nursing (Tacoma); Hospitals--Tacoma--1970-1980;
Everett & Monte Cristo Railway Company train near Tunnel #4 along the Stillaguamish River canyon. The Everett & Monte Cristo Railway Co. was incorporated in 1892 and was a common carrier of mine and timber cargo. Photograph by Kirk, c. 1900.
Two loggers from the Thomas Bordeaux company pose in a deep cut in a standing tree in the Black Hills of Thurston County, Washington beside a whipsaw. Photograph by Jeffers Studio, c. 1909.
Cowboy Buffalo Vernon wrestling a steer at the Round-Up rodeo event in Pendleton, Oregon, 1910. The following year, steer wrestling or, "bulldogging," became an official event at the Pendleton Round-Up. Photograph by W. S. Bowman, September, 1910.
Ella Lazinka at the first Round-Up, Pendleton, Oregon, 1910. Lazinka took 14 minutes, and nine and a half seconds to run the three day relay at one mile each day, and won the first relay against noted cowgirl Bertha Blancett. Photograph by W. S. Bowman September, 1910.
The 18 acre Billy Turner Ranch orchards in Wenatchee Valley, overlooking the town of Wenatchee, Washington. The Turner Ranch contained 15 acres of orchards that averaged 90 trees to the acre which produced apples, peaches, pears, apricots and prunes. Photograph by B. C Collier, c. 1908.
Wheat warehouses in Ritzville, Washington with two teams of horses hitched to wagons for transporting the sacked wheat. Ritzville exported 1,856 cars of wheat and 563 cars of flour between 1901 to 1902. Photograph c. 1903.
Steam plow on John Hoffman's farm in Eureka Flats, near Waitsburg in Walla Walla County, Washington. Hoffman, a German immigrant, owned 8,000 total acres of wheat producing farmland in Walla Walla County before retiring in 1903 at the age of 51. Photograph by the Holt Manufacturing Company, Stockton, California, c. 1903.
Overhead perspective of F. G. Monroe ranch workers branding cattle three and a half miles Southwest of Sprague, Washington. Photograph by T.T. Richardson, c. 1908.
Sacks of grain await shipment at Davenport, Washington, where more than a million bushels of wheat were exported in 1901 and as many as 15,000 and 20,000 bushels were produced in one season. Davenport is the county seat of Lincoln County in what the Coast magazine, called part of the "Big Bend Wheat Country" of Eastern Washington. Photograph c. 1902.
Teams of horses hitched to a threshing combine on the Robert Gunning ranch near Davenport, Washington. The wind guard on the rear of the combine keeps air from upsetting the threshing (separation) process and stores the chaff from the grain. Photograph by Paige, c. 1908.
Elevated perspective of Friday Harbor looking east. By 1903, Friday Harbor was the commercial center and county seat of San Juan County. Photograph c. 1904.
Front Street in Port Angeles, Washington, located in Clallam County, featuring a Tailor, Palace Bakery, Paper and Paint, Laundry, City Hotel and Bar, Gem Restaurant, Matthew's Pharmacy, Port Angeles Grocery and Fulmer's Studio. Port Angeles was incorporated in 1890 and is the county seat of Clallam County. It is located on the shores of the Strait of Juan de Fuca near the Olympic Mountains. Photograph by C.E. Fulmer, c. 1907.
The Richardson Store and Post Office in Lopez Island on Richardson Bay. First settled by George Richardson in 1873, the post office was established in 1891, replaced in 1928, destroyed by fire in 1990 and not rebuilt. Photograph c. 1904.