This is a closer view of the old Interurban Depot at 702 A Street undergoing conversion into a Soldiers & Sailors Clubhouse. Four painters are touching up the building's exterior on October 30, 1940. The clubhouse would provide a place for enlisted men in the Armed Forces to relax and dine. See D10384, images 4 and 2 for other views of the renovation work.

Soldiers & Sailors Clubhouse (Tacoma);

These two unidentified painters were working on the Soldiers & Sailors Club, located in the old two-story Interurban Station at 8th & A Streets, in October of 1940. The former depot was scheduled to become an Army-Navy enlisted men's club. Reading and lounging rooms were to be maintained along with a restaurant. Current newspapers and books plus radios and a piano would be provided for the entertainment of the servicemen. Transportation via Fort Lewis buses would stop at the club. Mayor Harry P. Cain had introduced an ordinance to the city council for $5,000 to fund the project. The Soldiers & Sailors Club was to be self-supporting after its establishment. (TNT 10-14-40, p. 15-article on new servicemen's club)

Soldiers & Sailors Clubhouse (Tacoma); Remodeling--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Recruits receive training at a new Recruit Center set up near the old Tacoma Field hangar, now part of McChord Field. They will participate in six weeks of training, including the use of gas masks. The group of 900 current recruits are destined for specialized branches of the service, such as medical corps, signal corps and ordnance. They will serve a tour of duty of three years. (T. Times 11/27/1940, pg. 1)

Soldiers--Tacoma--1940-1950; McChord Field (Tacoma); World War, 1939-1945--Military training; Military life; Gas masks;

In January of 1941 the Tacoma Spinster Club sponsored a roller skating party at Berg's Roller Bowl at 8006 South Tacoma Way in Lakewood. Four Spinster Club members, wearing saddle shoes and steel roller skates fastened with keys, were photographed at the skating party with two of their guests. Pictured left to right are Mary Katherine Hager, Ruth Taylor, Charles D. Mellinger, Wyona Diemer, Catherine Foss and Bill Zeh. The Spinster Club was a social group of prominent young women. (T. Times 1/25/1941, pg. 4)

Spinster Club (Tacoma); Skating rinks--Lakewood; Berg's Roller Bowl (Lakewood); Skaters; Roller skating--Lakewood; Diemer, Wyona; Hager, Mary Katherine; Taylor, Ruth; Foss, Catherine; Mellinger, Charles D.; Zeh, Bill;

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Bill Stoner
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Pierce County Executive Joe Stortini and his election challenger Larry Faulk, left, made a joint appearance at the Parkland-Spanaway Chamber of Commerce luncheon at the Paradise Village Bowl Restaurant. They briefly chatted before lunch.
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Pierce County Executive Joe Stortini was offered a cup of coffee by county staffer Sandy Bassett at the reception following the ceremony in which Stortini and council members Barbara Gelman, Dennis Flannigan, Bill Stoner, and Chuck Gorden took the oath of office for new terms.
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Bruce Stucker, founder of Save Our Sound, an organization dedicated to the preservation and beautification of Puget Sound, posed for photo by a part of the South Sound near his Olympia office.
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Jule Sugarman, outgoing head of DSHS for the state.
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Mayor Doug Sutherland suits up for a spin in a race car from Rabanco Racing. In the promotional stunt, police stopped traffic from the Tacoma Dome to Old City Hall as driver Roy Smith occasionally left motorcycle police in the dust.
This is in advance of the Tacoma Grand Prix.
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Tacoma Mayor Doug Sutherland announces to the audience and for the record that the council will stay in executive session for another 10 minutes. This is in the council chambers before a regular meeting.
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"Truman made his point in Tacoma; P-I w/story"
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Dolores Silas, NAACP President
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Sister Joyce Cox is the Vice Chancellor of the Seattle Archdiocese.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. -- WILDLIFE CHIEF -- Curt Smitch is the new director of Washington's Department of Wildlife. Smith has been serving as natural resources adviser to Gov. Booth Gardner.
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The Senate gallery was overflowing with spectators at the Curt Smitch confirmation hearing held by the Senate Environment and Natural Resource Committee.
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Charles Z. Smith was helped into his new judicial robe by former law partner Theodore Rosenblume (right) at the ceremony at the U.S. Courthouse in Seattle where Smith was sworn in as Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Washington. Smith was appointed by Governor Booth Gardner on July 13.
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