Front of Photo: PHOTO 12221...ASTRONAUT by Manuel...Bonnie Dunbar -- she will fly in the Space Shuttle in the next four years. Credit: Peter Main. The Christian Science Monitor News Services. Distributed by Los Angeles Times Syndicate.
From Clipping in File: Lt. Col. John Dramesi, Daughter, Andrea, Now 6 Flier Made Flag Secretly While Imprisoned in North Vietnam Staff photo by Bob Rudsit
Man atop Edwards Fuel Company truck, filling its tank from fuel depot. According to signage on truck, Edwards was the distributor for White Rose fuel. For Davis Motor Company, Diamond T Trucks. (date may be 03-12-1937.) (filed with Argentum)
Davis Motor Truck Company (Tacoma); Trucks--Tacoma--1930-1940; Diamond T trucks; Edwards Fuel Co. (Tacoma); Fuel;
Christmas window display of hosiery at Lerner Shops. Sheer silk nylons available at 69 cents a pair for that special lady. Four thread silk chiffon nylons at 69 cents a pair made the perfect gift. A wide range of nylons in different colors displayed at prices ranging from 50 cents to 89 cents a pair. Dressing gowns on hangers accent the display.
Two Foss tugboats, the "Diamond B" and the "Foss No. 17" carefully moved a crane, mounted on a Foss barge, down the Puyallup Waterway in December of 1936. The crane was probably being delivered to the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company. The "Foss 17" had a fire monitor mounted on top of its pilothouse, and with her high pressure pump she helped put out many waterfront fires before being retired in 1965. (copy of photograph also numbered and filed as D3015- 1A)
Burnett Brothers Jewelers, new store at 924 Broadway. View of the long narrow interior from the rear of the store to the front door. Large glass display cases set on marble stands on either side of the center aisle. The new location will have its Grand Opening February 12, 1937 in the evening. The store was formerly located at 932 Broadway. Also cataloged as A4035 image 2. (T. Times, 2/11/1937, p. 8)
ca. 1937. Bone-Dry Shoe Company store in the Rust Building from 11th Street. Signs advertise "Removal Sale" and "Forced to Vacate." Fidelity Building in background. Storefront for First United Mutual Savings Bank next door. (filed with Argentum)
Office buildings--Tacoma--1930-1940; Rust Building (Tacoma); Bone Dry Shoe Store (Tacoma); Shoe stores--Tacoma--1930-1940;
ca. 1937. The Stationers, interior. Typewriters, duplicating machines and other office supplies, Royal Typewriter display sign, three people at desks. (filed with Argentum)
Stationers, Inc. (Tacoma); Office equipment & supplies; Typewriters;
ca. 1937. Norman's Apparel Shop, Ladies Dresses. Model posed in the latest fashion in store interior. Her hand rests on a modernistic chrome chairs. (WSHS)
This photograph of the Rex Theater, from October, 1937, shows the theater's new marquee and neon sign built by the Cliff Sign Company. Martin Steffen opened the Rex Theater at 3809-11 Yakima Avenue South in 1919 to replace his smaller theater of the same name that was just two doors down, at 3805 Yakima Ave. So. The new theater had the largest seating capacity of any theater on Tacoma's south end, holding 650. Seeking to give his patrons the best possible movie experience, Mr. Steffen's had the theater built with a nursery where mothers could care for their small children and infants while still being able to view the screen. In 1958, the Rex was remodeled and dedicated as the Tacoma Calvary Temple. Today it is home to the New Restoration Church and Restoration Christian Ministries.
Rex Theater (Tacoma); Motion picture theaters--Tacoma--1930-1940; Electric signs;
ca. 1936. Interior of Globe Machine Works, for Joe Cornish. This longtime Tacoma concern designed and manufactured heavy machinery, primarily for the plywood industry. (filed with Argentum)
