Interior of Rug Cleaning Plant, Cartozian & Sons Rug Company, Edward S. Cartozian. One man rolls a cleaned and dry rug in paper while another sorts orders on a rack in the facility. Several pieces of upholstered furniture sit wrapped on the left side and a carpet is spread on the floor on the far right.

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Interior of Rug Cleaning Plant, Cartozian & Sons Rug Company, Edward S. Cartozian. A man views a guage that not only reads the current conditions but also prints a scale of conditions over time on a circular chart.

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Interior of Rug Cleaning Plant, Cartozian & Sons Rug Company, Edward S. Cartozian. One of the employees of the company places a carpet into a storage bin.

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Interior of Rug Cleaning Plant, Cartozian & Sons Rug Company, Edward S. Cartozian. Two young work together, one to spray the back of a rug and the other to move the rug up and down with a pulley.

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In July of 1947, Edward S. Cartozian moved his carpet business in Tacoma from 759 Broadway to the old automobile dealership building at 3320 So. G St. The Cartozian family had been in the carpet business in the Pacific Northwest since 1906 when Abram O. Cartozian started selling Oriental rugs from a small rented room in Portland. Ed Cartozian sold his business in Tacoma to Matt O'Haleck in 1994. The men in this photograph are unidentified, but it is believed that the third man from the right is Edward S. Cartozian.

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Interior of Rug Cleaning Plant, Cartozian & Sons Rug Company, Edward S. Cartozian. Two men move a cleaned piece of upholstered furniture into the delivery truck. Wrapped rugs and another piece of furniture are already in the truck.

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Interior of Rug Cleaning Plant, Cartozian & Sons Rug Company, Edward S. Cartozian. Several cleaning operations are being completed at the same time. Two men work with two separate machines each cleaning a carpet and two men work together with a circular scrubber and hose with a carpet on the concrete floor.

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Interior of Rug Cleaning Plant, Cartozian & Sons Rug Company, Edward S. Cartozian. Two men work with a rug in a cleaning machine. The man to the right has his hand on a button.

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Interior of Rug Cleaning Plant, Cartozian & Sons Rug Company, Edward S. Cartozian. In one of the upstairs rooms workers repair rugs with industrial sewing machines.

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Interior of Rug Cleaning Plant, Cartozian & Sons Rug Company, Edward S. Cartozian. The company also provides upholstery cleaning to its customers. Two men work together; one places the cleaning solution on the fabric while the second man vacuums the dirty solution from the fabric.

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Interior of Rug Cleaning Plant, Cartozian & Sons Rug Company, Edward S. Cartozian. Two men work together in cleaning a floral-patterned rug; one of them hoses the rug with a solution while the other brushes the rug.

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Interior of Rug Cleaning Plant, Cartozian & Sons Rug Company, Edward S. Cartozian. This facility was built in the early 1920's and had been used as an automobile dealership until 1947 when taken over by the Cartozian & Sons Rug Company.

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Interior of Rug Cleaning Plant, Cartozian & Sons Rug Company, Edward S. Cartozian. Three men work with a cleaning machine as a carpet moves through it.

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Interior of Rug Cleaning Plant, Cartozian & Sons Rug Company, Edward S. Cartozian. This facility was built in the early 1920's and had been used as an automobile dealership until 1947 when taken over by the Cartozian & Sons Rug Company. It is a two-storied building with a stucco exterior.

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An unidentified employee of Cartozian & Sons Rug Company has hung an oriental rug to help it retain its original shape during the cleaning process. Cartozian & Sons had moved to 3320 South "G" St., the former home of Bye Thompson Motors, in July of 1947. The firm claimed the "lowest prevailing prices" in rug cleaning at $5.40 for domestics and $8.64 for orientals for 9 x 12 rugs cleaned and sized. Free estimates and free pickup and delivery were offered. Cartozian Fine Carpets & Rugs is still at this address. Photograph ordered by Edward S. Cartozian. (T.Times ad 7-21-47, p. 7)

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Inexperienced safecrackers failed to blow open the massive safe at Bye Thompson Motor Sales, 3320 South G Street, on early Friday morning, December 5, 1924. The thieves abandoned their efforts when the explosives they used broke the windows in front of the safe and threw the office into disarray, but only succeeded in blowing off the combination dial on the safe's door, not in releasing the bars holding the door in place. This was the second time in less than a year that Bye Thompson Motors had been robbed; on December 18, 1923, thieves somehow carried away the company's 1000 pound safe and blew it open several blocks away. That robbery netted the thieves $362. This photograph was taken at the scene of the crime on December 5, 1924. G24.1-056 (TNT 12-5-24, p. 1)

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