ca. 1927. Crystal Palace Fish Market, Stalls 5 and 6, Crystal Palace Market. Two men behind counter, likely owners Harry Masouras and Aro Delimitros. Ordered by Toledo Scales. (Argentum)

Markets--Tacoma--1920-1930; Crystal Palace Market (Tacoma); Seafood stores--Tacoma--1920-1930;

ca. 1927. The Crystal Palace Market, at the corner of South 11th and Market Streets, opened to the public on Saturday, June 4, 1927. One of the largest "food emporiums" of its kind on the west coast, the Crystal Palace had 189 food stalls and 50 farmers' tables. All equipment was standardized and uniform, but each stall was under separate management. This photograph shows several of the fruit and vegetable stalls operated by Japanese-American merchants that were located on the Market Street side of the building. The Sanitary Market is visible across the street, seen through an open area behind the vendors. (For Toledo Scales.) (Argentum) (TNT 06-03-1927 p.1)

Markets--Tacoma--1940-1950; Crystal Palace Market (Tacoma); Japanese Americans--Tacoma; Sanitary Public Market (Tacoma);

ca. 1927. Cooler at A. E. Paulson's Grocery for Hoover Fixture and Butcher Supply Company. Glass case with meats and dairy products, packaged foods on shelves. Hoover Fixture manufactured show cases, butchers supplies, scales, soda fountains, restaurant equipment, choppers and mills. A.D. Hoover was the owner. (Argentum)

Paulson's Grocery (Tacoma); Hoover Fixture and Butcher Supply Co. (Tacoma); Grocery stores--Tacoma--1920-1930;

ca. 1926. Grocery store interior. Fresh meat and dairy/soft drink cases, canned and packaged foods on shelves, mirrors on walls. (filed with Argentum)

Grocery stores--1920-1930;

ca. 1926. Grocery store interior. Baked goods case, canned and packaged food on shelves, produce on tables. (filed with Argentum)

Grocery stores--1920-1930;

ca. 1926. Unidentified Grocery Store interior. Counter with scales on top, dairy and meat case below. Packaged and canned food on shelves behind. For Andrews Showcase Manufacturing Company. (filed with Argentum)

Grocery stores--1920-1930;

ca. 1926. Unidentified Grocery Store interior. Glacier Refrigerator case with cash register in center of countertop. Packaged and canned food on shelves behind counter. (filed with Argentum)

Grocery stores--Tacoma--1920-1930;

ca. 1926. Dairy case inside market. Milk and cheese in case, packaged foods on shelves behind counter. Ordered by B. Wingard and Sons, manufacturers of butcher supplies. (filed with Argentum)

Grocery stores--Tacoma--1920-1930; B. Wingard and Sons (Tacoma); Merchandise displays--Tacoma; Showcases;

ca. ,1926. Grocery Store interior. Glacier Refrigerator case with scales in center, packaged and canned food on shelves behind counter. (filed with Argentum)

Grocery stores--Tacoma--1920-1930; Showcases; Scales;

ca. 1925. Grocery store interior. Dairy, meat and soft drink cases. Prohibition-era soft drinks made by Rainier Brewing, Fisher's Instant Oats, White King Detergent, Rawlston Bran and Puffed Wheat, Nabisco Shredded Wheat, Kellogg Pep, OK Dairy calendar. (filed with Argentum)

Grocery stores--Tacoma--1940-1950;

ca. 1932. Roberts Bros. Grocers delivery truck number 4 resting in a gulch between two houses, circa 1932. Porch railing of one house hangs from post. (filed with Argentum)

Roberts Bros. Grocery (Tacoma); Trucks--Tacoma--1930-1940; Traffic accidents--Tacoma--1930-1940;

ca. 1935. Grocery Store interior. Sign: "For Your Convenience Please Take a Basket and Serve Yourself." Studio records give address as "12th and No. L Sts.," likely Thomas E. Boze Grocery, on No. 11th and L. (Argentum)

Grocery stores--Tacoma--1930-1940;

ca. 1935. Rowen's Lake City Store, exterior view of two story brick store with flat above. Photograph taken for Younglove Grocery Company. Banner sign above the awning states that Rowen's is a member of the I.G.A. chain of stores. The store was a family owned affair and the Rowens also lived upstairs.

Rowen's Lake City Store (Lakewood); Grocery stores--Lakewood--1930-1940;

This apple display in the window of the Totem Market, 933-37 Market St., in January of 1938 was part of an advertising campaign to encourage the consumption of Washington grown apples. Washington's apples were started from seeds brought to a Hudson's Bay Company settlement in the Pacific Northwest from London by a Captain Simpson. In 1938 at least one of these trees was still standing in Vancouver, WA. In 1894, the first carload of apples was shipped east of the Mississippi River with the result that by 1938 Washington was the "Apple Bowl" of the world, producing one out of every four apples grown in the United States. (Ordered by H.L. Moreman, for Washington State Apple Advertising Commission.) (TNT 1/21/1938, pg. 7)

Grocery stores--Tacoma--1930-1940; Fruit; Merchandise displays--Tacoma--1930-1940; Apples--Tacoma; Advertising--Tacoma--1930-1940;

The staff of a Franklin Foods Store salutes the Washington State Golden Jubilee with a doff of their Jubilee hats. In 1939, Franklin had locations at the Crystal Palace Public Market, 117 No. G, 5408 South Tacoma Way and 602 So. 38th. The man on the right of the standing row is possibly owner and founder George G. Franklin.

Franklin Food Stores (Tacoma)--Employees; Washington State Golden Jubilee, 1939--Tacoma;

Group of men, in butcher's coats and one in a chef's uniform, eye some meat hanging at the Central Market. The meat has a ribbon denoting it as a prize winner in the 4H and F.F.A. Junior Livestock show. The prize winning entries were often auctioned off to area restaurants who both served the meat and considered it a contribution to the education of future cattlemen.

Central Market (Tacoma); Meat; Butcher shops--Tacoma--1950-1960;

Interiors at Fletchers Grocery in Parkland. Photos ordered by the Jack Frost Co. Packs of cigarettes, cigars and chewing tobacco line the shelves behind the checkers. As the woman checker enters the prices in the cash register, two bag boys box the groceries. Signs indicate that this is the store's Grand Opening. Numerals indicate different areas of the aisles. The aisles are wide enough for carts and well stocked with canned and boxed goods.

Fletcher's Grocery (Parkland); Grocery stores--Parkland--1950-1960;

American Wholesale Grocers. Interiors of new IGA Foodtown store located at Park Ave. and Airport Way. The end cap is a display of ABC fig bars. The cookies sell for $.49. The sign shows the "world's largest fig bar" and proclaims when better fig bars are made, ABC will make them. The Grand Opening of the store would begin August 17 and continue for 4 days. During that time, free coffee and cake would be served, every lady shopper would receive a free gift and an orchid and a Shetland pony with saddle and bridle would be one prize of many given away. (TNT 8/16/1955, pg. 7-10)

IGA Foodtown (Parkland); Grocery stores--1950-1960; Supermarkets;

The Patty Ann Bakery at the Thriftway Park 'N Shop, formerly the Park 'N Shop. Two bakery assistants in clean white uniforms pose, one holding freshly baked bread. The lighted glass display cabinets hold luscious looking cakes, doughnuts, cookies and pastries. Smiling jack o' lantern cutouts decorate the shelves, along with a palm tree look alike coming out of the planter box behind one woman's head.

Park-N- Shop (Parkland); Supermarkets; Grocery stores--Parkland--1950-1960;

The Highland Hills Big Bear store at 5915 6th Avenue, near Pearl Street, opened in 1955 to serve the growing West end, including the areas of University Place and Fircrest. The Big Bear was the first tenant of the Highland Hills Shopping Center, which had its Grand Opening in December of 1956. When completed, the shopping center had 21 stores with a pedestrian mall in the center and five acres of parking.

Big Bear Stores (Tacoma); Supermarkets--Tacoma--1950-1960; Grocery stores--Tacoma--1950-1960; Electric signs;

Sib's Thriftway, at 5739 North 26th Street, was built in 1953 by Sib Carstensen and was the first store in the newly named "Westgate" area of Tacoma. Sib's, with its large, sweeping arched roof advertised itself as "Tacoma's first supermarket". The Sib's store, which later became the Westgate Mark-It Store, was demolished around 1988. TPL-9761

Sib's Thriftway (Tacoma); Grocery stores--Tacoma--1950-1960; Supermarkets--Tacoma--1950-1960;

Exterior shopping center. Lakewood was already a thriving community by 1954 as residents were starting to move from crowded urban areas to more open land in the suburbs. The Lakewood Thriftway supermarket was located in a small shopping center along with a Texaco gas station and Hamlin Cleaners. Built by the March Building Co., it was a concrete block contemporary styled building with a parking lot that would hold 300 cars. The supermarket would hold its grand opening October 7-9, 1954, with free entertainment and gifts for customers, including a performance by Cherokee Jack, merry-go-round and pony rides for children, free orchids, coffee, cake and ice cream plus free groceries. Lakewood Thriftway would offer soft background music played while the customers shopped and seven ultra-modern checkout stands. View of empty parking lot of shopping center with Texaco station to the left foreground and the dry cleaners and Thriftway to the rear. Photograph ordered by the Condon Co., Inc., possibly for advertising purposes. (TNT 10-6-54, B-5)

Thriftway Food Stores (Lakewood); Grocery stores--Lakewood--1950-1960; Signs (Notices); Automobile service stations--Lakewood--1950-1960; Hamlin Cleaners (Lakewood); Condon Co., Inc. (Tacoma);

At approximately 4:45 a.m. on July 7, 1953, the worst fire in Tacoma in more than four years swept through the Safeway Grocery Company store at 208 South 82nd Street. More than six engine companies reported to the "2-11" class fire. The store sustained over $260,000 in damage: $112,000 for the ruined brick, wood and concrete structure, $83,000 in equipment and $65,000 in ruined food. Fire Chief Harold Fisk said that the firemen were hampered by unexpected low water pressure in the Fern Hill district fire hydrants from which hose lines were run. (TNT 7/7/1953, pg. 1)

Safeway Stores, Inc. (Tacoma); Grocery Stores--Tacoma--1950-1960; Fires--Tacoma--1950-1960;

A trio of checkers, dressed in "old-timey" clothing, sashay for the camera to advertise Safeway's Country Carnival Days. Adorned in ruffles and bonnets, the women are posed next to a cartoon cutout of a carnival barker. This June 30, 1958, photograph may have been taken at the Safeway store at 1102 South "M". Photograph ordered by Retail Clerks Union.

Safeway Stores, Inc. (Tacoma); Supermarkets--Tacoma--1950-1960; Signs (Notices);

Outer walls go up in the construction of a new West Coast Grocery facility in May, 1966. A large crane is being utilized for the heavy lifting while workers make sure the walls are firmly in place. West Coast Grocery was building a new meat storage unit at 1525 East D. Photograph ordered by West Coast Grocery.

West Coast Grocery Co. (Tacoma); Building construction--Tacoma--1960-1970; Hoisting machinery;

Owned by Walt Hogan, the Food King supermarket in 1963 provided its South Tacoma neighborhood with a convenient place to stop and fill up with groceries. Located at 3510 So. 56th St., it was directly across the street from the Post Office and close to the South Tacoma Branch Library. Neighboring businesses in the small shopping center included Pate's Coin-Op Cleaners & Laundry and Bob's Burger Barn. Food King on So. 56th St. celebrated its grand opening from July 18-20, 1963. The celebration, where a live steer was given away to one lucky customer (steer to be cut up and packaged to customer's wishes), coincided with a outdoor sidewalk sale planned by South Tacoma merchants. The supermarket provided parking for about 100 cars. The new Food King was the sixth in a chain of supermarkets; it replaced the old Hogan's Fine Foods. Its exterior, faced with Palos Verde stone from Mexico, had plenty of glass and a modern arcade providing protection from the elements. Food King provided air conditioning, wide aisles, a variety section, and the OK Bakery, an in-store bakery. 41 years later, Food King is now the Red Apple supermarket and Bob's Burger Barn transformed into a Starbucks. (TNT 7-16-63, p. 9)

Food King (Tacoma); Supermarkets--Tacoma--1960-1970;

Exterior view of Hogan's Grocery Store, South 12th and "K" Street. Architect Emanuel J. Bresemann designed this building for Pick n Take Market in 1931. (T. Times)

Grocery Stores--Tacoma--1940-1950; Hogan's Fine Foods (Tacoma);

The building at 1202 Martin Luther King Jr. Way has had a number of tenants over the years. When it was built in 1931, it was home to the Pay 'n Takit Store. In June of 1943, Walter Hogan opened Hogan's Fine Foods. In recent years, it was home to Evergreen State College. (T.N.T., 6/4/43, p.8) TPL-3796.

Grocery stores--Tacoma--1940-1950; Hogan's Fine Foods (Tacoma);

McKinley Thriftway Store, Younglove Grocery Company. McKinley Food Market is on the ground floor of this three story building. The Porter Apartments are located on the top two floors. The folding doors on two of the front panels of the market are open showing boxes of produce and cold cases. This newly remodeled grocery store will open August 24, 1945, and serve the South Tacoma Way area. Motto on sign: "Every Day Low Prices".

Grocery stores--Tacoma--1940-1950; McKinley Thriftway Store; McKinley Food Market; Younglove Grocery Co. (Tacoma); Commercial buildings;

The McKinley Food Market, at the corner of So. 35th and McKinley Ave., joined the Thriftway Store group in August of 1945. They occupied the first floor of the Porter Apartments building. The McKinley Market was owned by Arthur Hooker, manager of the grocery section, and Sumner More, who was in charge of the meat department. The store had been recently remodeled. Thriftway Food Stores was a new and expanding group of supermarkets sponsored by the Younglove Grocery Company of Tacoma, with stores in Tacoma and in the Bremerton area, home-owned and home-operated. The Younglove Grocery Company was sold to Associated Grocers Co-op of Seattle in 1948. (TNT 8/30/1945 p.26 & 8/18/1948 p.1)

Grocery stores--Tacoma--1940-1950; McKinley Thriftway Store; McKinley Food Market; Younglove Grocery Co. (Tacoma); Commercial buildings;