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- 1937
Part of Richards Studio Photographs
ca. 1937. In June of 1937 John L. "Lee" Kress opened his first malt shop in Tacoma at the corner of 9th and Broadway in the Bostwick Building; he already had operated two ice cream shops in Olympia. Mr. Kress' new Tacoma shop could seat 40 customers at the counter and in booths. While a boy growing up in Tacoma, his father Paul B. Kress worked as a salesman for the Henningsen Creamery Company. Lee Kress died in 1959 at the age of 45.
Kress Malt Shop (Tacoma); Restaurants--Tacoma--1930-1940;