West Coast Grocery was in the process of building their new home offices. This building would house their entire operations, including West Coast Fur Sales. The building is estimated at $400,000 and will be 640 feet long, 240 feet wide and have 135,000 square feet all on one floor. View of building site.

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West Coast Grocery was in the process of building their new home offices. This building would house their entire operations, including West Coast Fur Sales. The building is estimated at $400,000 and will be 640 feet long, 240 feet wide and have 135,000 square feet all on one floor. View of building progress.

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West Coast Grocery was in the process of building their new home offices. This building would house their entire operations, including West Coast Fur Sales. The building is estimated at $400,000 and will be 640 feet long, 240 feet wide and have 135,000 square feet all on one floor. View of building progress.

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West Coast Grocery is planning to house their new home offices, the entire operations of the firm and West Coast Fur Sales, Inc. in this new $400,000 building. The building will be 640 feet long, 240 feet wide, and have 135,000 square feet all on one floor. Architect's drawing of West Coast Grocery building (T. Times, 3/1/46, p. 9).

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Charles H. Hyde, President of West Coast Grocery Co. was announcing the formal opening of the company's new headquarters in Tacoma. Their new offices were designed by the architectural firm, Russell, Lance and Muri. View of Mr Hyde smoking a cigarette in his new office. Photo ordered by Condon Co., an advertising company (T. Times, 1/31/47, p. 5).

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West Coast Grocery had just recently moved into their new offices on East D Street. Mutual Fruit Company was a subsidiary of West Coast Grocery. Exterior view of West Coast Grocery Company's AMOCAT, Mutual Fruit Company and Olympia Beer trucks, photo ordered by Condon Company, an advertising company T. Times, 2/26/47, p. 12-B).

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Aerial view of West Coast Grocery, St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Company and Tacoma Iron and Steel. The Union Pacific freight depot is across from West Coast Grocery on the Tacoma tideflats. TPL-5528

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Office portrait of Charles H. Hyde, President of West Coast Grocery Company. Ordered by Chet Cherrington.

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West Coast Grocery was in the process of building their new home offices. This building would house their entire operations, including West Coast Fur Sales. The building is estimated at $400,000 and will be 640 feet long, 240 feet wide and have 135,000 square feet all on one floor. View of unidentified men visiting the building site for West Coast Grocery.

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West Coast Grocery. An exterior view of the company's new concrete facility.

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Interior view of West Coast Grocery's food storage building, boxes of "Red & White Yellow Freestone Peaches", "AMOCAT Corn" and "Booth's Y. C. Peaches" are stacked up throughout warehouse, a workman is in center of boxes, possibly checking inventory. Photo ordered by Condon Company, a local advertising company.

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West Coast Grocery was now in their new headquarters. The building housed their offices, food storage warehouses, distribution center and their subsidiary companies as well. West Coast had just had their formal opening in January of this year. Interior view of West Coast Grocery's food storage building, boxes of "Gerber's Baby Food", "Snow's Clam Chowder", "Wheaties" and "Franco-American Spaghetti" to the right of man on fork lift, photo ordered by Condon Company, an advertising company.

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West Coast Grocery was a wholesale grocery company with their large new offices and headquarters on East D Street. Charles H. Hyde was president of West Coast Grocery. Exterior view of West Coast Grocery Company's AMOCAT and Olympia Beer trucks, photo ordered by Condon Company, an advertising company (T. Times, 2/26/47, p. 12-B).

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West Coast Grocery Co. was announcing the formal opening of the company's new headquarters in Tacoma. Their new offices were designed by the architectural firm, Russell, Lance and Muri and built by MacDonald Building Co. View of unidentified man in his new office, he appears to be speaking into a microphone or a dictograph. Photo ordered by Condon Co., an advertising company (T. Times, 1/31/47, p. 5).

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ca. 1956. Aerial view of the West Coast Grocery Co. taken circa 1956. The wholesale grocery company moved into these offices in 1947. The building is fronted by the City Waterway and the Northern Pacific Railroad log dump. To the right of West Coast is Crawford, Wesley & Son at 420 E. 18th, wholesale produce. To the right of Crawford is the Northwestern Drug Co. The Northern Pacific railroad yards can be seen in the background.

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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.

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West Coast Grocery was in the process of building their new home offices. This building would house their entire operations, including West Coast Fur Sales. The building is estimated at $400,000 and will be 640 feet long, 240 feet wide and have 135,000 square feet all on one floor. View of foundation for West Coast Grocery building.

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New West Coast Grocery Company building at Tacoma, DFPA, Mrs. Leik. Ordered by Douglas Fir Plywood Association, the exterior of this building shows the use of plywood in concrete construction. The walls were built using plywood and structural lumber as molds with iron rebar to strengthen the poured concrete. Openings were left for windows to be installed.

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Copy of aerial view of West Coast Grocery Company with Mount Rainier in the background. West Coast Grocery was an outlet for national and local brand foods to be shipped throughout the Pacific Northwest, Hawaii and Alaska. The company had served Tacoma and Alaska since 1887. Their brand name, Amocat (Tacoma spelled backwards), was a guide to shoppers to quality food products. Ordered by West Coast Grocery, Chet Chumington. (TNT, 2/13/1951, p.C-2)

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