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Tacoma--Views (Tacoma--Aerial Views)

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Billy Welch, a 10th grader at Clover Park District, walked with striking Clover Park High School teachers Tuesday afternoon, on what was to have been the first day of school for the district.
Kellman - Photo

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--Modern Interior--
Passengers sit inside the roomy interior of a Seattle monorail train. The electric cars hold 450 persons and take 96 seconds on the 1.2-mile trip between the Seattle Center and the downtown shopping district.

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Off-duty Burien police officer Dennis Russell, center, talks with a Metro bus driver as partner (and fellow off-duty cop) Glen Jackson, right, casts a wary glance at the busload of passengers at a bus stop in a Burien shopping center. The two spend one night each week moonlighting with the Metro as security officers.
Geff Hinds/Photo
Porterfield

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Buses Roll Toward Tacoma

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Depot

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Norwegian Independence Day
Photograph by Jerry Buck

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Norwegian Festival

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Thermal Power Plant--Hanford

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Official Photo
Washington Public Power Supply System

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Oil Skimmer for Commencement Bay
Belt in Middle Scoops Up Oil and Debris

Commencement Bay received an oil skimmer rig to fight oil spills. The skimmer can hold up to 880 gallons of oil and uses the belt in the middle of the rig to pick up oil and debris. The skimmer can hold the oil for about 98 percent of the oil spills that occur in Puget Sound, and it is run by the Marine Oil Pickup Service (MOPS) of Seattle.

40 Mallard ducks used to paddle Fife’s Wapato Creek had to paddle in a kitchen sink instead. Volunteer Chris Wells scrubbed one of the ducks affected by the oil spill in the creek. All ducks were expected to recover. The spill was blamed on vandals who were believed to have tampered with the storage tanks at the Old Valley Packing Co. recently purchased by the Milwaukee Railroad. Photo by staff member Bruce Kellman.

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Duck
Photograph by Jerry Buck

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Main House

Binh Duong, a former interpreter for Americans in Vietnam, speaks to a public assistance caseworker. Duong led a group of Vietnamese refugees that he arrived with in May 1975. Duong himself already had a job and was employed by the Department of Social and Health Services to help other refugee families adjust to the new environment.

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Binh Duong

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--Mailorder English--
Mui Tran, 58 is learning "survival" English by reading daily from the Sears catalog, the textbook for his class at Tacoma Community College. But the former tea farmer from the high mountains of Vietnam is quickly learning why so many people call the mail-order catalogs "wishbooks." Like his classmates in 90 similar classes in Washington, Tran's inability to speak English is barring him from finding a job.

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Thuy Vu, Vietnamese refugee, represents the Bureau of Refugee Assistance. He met with Vietnam vets who are returning to Vietnam at a special meeting held a the American Lake Veterans Hospital.
News/Leslie Brown
Bruce Larson/Photo

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Central Lutheran Church volunteer Robert G. Freeman, right, played wit Matthew, 6 mo., while mother Kim (didn't want last name used) held Matthew and brother Dean, 21 mo. The family was visiting at the Central Lutheran Church "Visiting Place Program."
Merryman
Bruce Larson/Photo

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New Correction Center

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Photo Rcv'd: 11/01/1981 - Article Date
Pasting Tacoma All Over the World
Here is shown H. C. Weaver, president of H. C. Weaver Productions, Inc., pasting what is known as a 24 sheet on the Market street side of the Rialto Theater. The bill tells its own story, but this picture tells more. It is the start of real publicity for Tacoma, as "Hearts and Fists" will be advertised in trade journals in getting it before exhibitors, then in local papers where it is to be shown and finally on the silver sheet before audiences - and the name Tacoma is tacked securely to this publicity.

Rialto Theatre Starting Saturday Jan. 2
World's Premiere!!
The H. C. Weaver Production
Hearts and Fists
Made in Tacoma
Directed by Lloyd Ingraham

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Photo Rcv'd: 11/01/1981 - Article date
Business boomed - for awhile - at Tacoma's movie studio located at Titlow Beach

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Scene from "The Totem Pole Beggar"

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Norman Meeds and his bakers.

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Western Washington Fair - Scones

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Peter Garcia enjoys a bowl of turkey noodle soup Friday during the lunch time meal at the Nativity House at 1517 Commerce in Tacoma. Two meals a day are served free of charge to the needy. City officials are concerned with possible drug activity in the neighborhood.
Bruce Kellman with Mike Gilbert/story

"Staff member Kevin Coley hugged a drop-in at Nativity House, a Commerce Street haven for the homeless." The Liberty Project revitalizing downtown Tacoma's Lower Pacific will most likely scatter the homeless population. However, according to people and organizations who work with rehabilitating people, it will not end the homelessness issue. It was suggested that the plan involve housing and training for the disadvantaged.

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Nativity House Worker & "Drop-In"
Larson

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Needle Exchange
By Haley
Tacoma

Note: Photo likely by Peter Haley

Back of photo: NEWS 9/29/88 (Photo by Russ Carmack) Trash, broken bottles, litter, etc. is everywhere in McKinley Park, and abandoned city park across from the Tacoma Dome and I-5. It's littered and overgrown, a haven for drug dealers and winos.