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Post Card
Carnegie Library Auburn, WA

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Ammunitions trains at Auburn freight yards

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Auburn Army Depot

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Auburn Fire

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Steve Bowen and Gerald Gorg, workmen from the Auburn Street Dept. hang a new directory sign near the intersection of Main St. and B St. Auburn is sprucing up its downtown shopping core with new identification sign.
Photo by Russ Carmack

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David Comstock, of Comstock's Bindery and Bookshop on E. Main in Auburn, adjusts a window display. He moved his store here from downtown Seattle (years ago).
Rushton story
Haley

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Southbound traffic on I-5 in Seattle was backed up North of N. 45th street Saturday afternoon because of a wreck near the convention center downtown. Shot was taken from an overpass at North 45th. The lane on the right with no traffic is the express lane.
Bruce Kellman for South King Edition

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--Up, Up Goes the Viaduct--
Rapid progress is being made on the SR 512 viaduct at Puyallup, Joe Michel, assistant project engineer for the State Highway Department, reported Wednesday. The concrete bridge over East Pioneer and Main avenues and the Puyallup River is being erected by Dale M. Madden Construction, Inc., Seattle, under a $1.8 million contract. The west span is going up now and its twin will be constructed under a future contract. (news 06/17/1971)

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--High-rise Curb Splits Interstate 5--
Work on a concrete divider strip separating the northbound and southbound lanes of Interstate 5 has progressed from North Ft. Lewis to 56th Street in Tacoma. The project will be complete when the divider is in place all the way to the Puyallup River bridge. Most of the divider is made of pre-cast concrete, although some sections are poured on the spot. The project also includes illumination in some spots. Division of the freeway adds up to a $2,320,000 contract for Woodworth & Co., Inc., of Tacoma.
Russ Carmack Photographer

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Aerial view of the Tacoma Spur construction with Tacoma in the background.
Photo by Russ Carmack

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Will this be Pacific Avenue?

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The Tacoma Spur was photographed from atop the First Interstate Plaza building while a dedication ceremony for the Locomotive Monument took place in the foreground next to the Spur.
News/Bruce Kellman

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Bulldozer

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Photograph by Bob Rudsit

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Volunteer Firemen for Vast Area

What is 150 feet long, 10 feet high, and has a serious over-bite? a mechanical haunted monster, of course. Erskine Manufacturing Co. of Puyallup has developed especially for Halloween this "experimental" model for public viewing near Willows Shopping Center, South 112th and Meridian. Proceeds will benefit Puyallup-area organizations.
Photo appeared in article, "WARNING: Possible health hazard" TNT 10/30/1974 p.A4

He said he was an Irishman named Jack O'Lantern and he wanted to have his growth removed from his head, but Mrs. Kitty Stolen, admitting nurse at St. Joseph Hospital and Health Care Center allowed as how he'd better wait until Sunday, Halloween night. Actually, it was another hospital employee inside the pumpkin. And it didn't take surgery to get him out.
From article, "Haunted Hospital?" TNT 10/30/1976 p.B14

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The Hawthorne neighborhood - before the Dome

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Hilltop Area

SCAM (Sheridan, Cushman, Ainsworth, and M Street) neighborhood group members are shown picking up litter in the alleyway between South Sheridan and South M Street. It was the second annual clean up hosted by SCAM. “In addition to cleaning the alleys, the group has put pressure on neighborhood landlords to clear vacant lots of trash and high weeds and to demolish the remnants of partially raised structures.” Photo by staff member Jerry Buck.

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Thirteen-year-old Jeffrey Colvin flashes the hand sign of the Crips. (See Story: Colvin is one of two teenagers interviewed who seem to watch and respect the gang members.)
K Street Story -- Amy Kunhardt

Taken for the Tacoma News Tribune article titled, "K Street Kids" Aug 19, 1988, Fri p.C1 (see "Hilltop Neighborhood 1988-1992"clipping file)

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Five-year-old Aisha Bell (left) eats her lunch on the front steps of a neighbor's house, watched by her older sister Lashanda, 10 and her niece, Tenika Posey, 3. (Tenika is sister of Cool Papa.)
K Street Story -- Amy Kunhardt

Taken for the Tacoma News Tribune article titled, "K Street Kids" Aug 19, 1988, Fri p.C1 (see "Hilltop Neighborhood 1988-1992"clipping file)

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Tooting her own horn! Carolyn "Mickey" Cunningham, Basileus of Sigma Gamma Rho (her college sorority), toots down S. K Street in part of the ethnic fair on the Hilltop.
News/Szymanski
Photo by Bill Hunter

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Willie and Joyce Hellems, rows one and two, joined with others in the sanctuary of St. John The Baptist Church on 20th and J Street to pray for an end to the drug problem on Tacoma's Hilltop.
News/Eskenazi
Bruce Larson Photo

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Prayers before sweeping up S. L Street, from left to right: Laura Neal, Theda Cherry, Priscilla Lisicich, and Lynitra Jackson. For Sandy Nelson story.
Melissa Stevenson Photo

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Checking the net

Three men in suits hold the base of a ladder while two other men in suits stand on the ladder to check the net of a basketball hoop.