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- 1951-06
Part of Richards Studio Photographs
In June of 1950, the Tacoma building inspector signed the permit to build the Vista Manor Apartments, 319 Tacoma Avenue No. One year later, in June of 1951, the exterior of the building, designed by Gaston Lance, was nearing completion. Each of the 133 apartments had a corner window, and a view of the city, Mt. Rainier or Puget Sound. In 1980 it became the Vista Del Rey Condominiums. The reinforced concrete structure was approved and licensed as a fallout shelter by the Federal government in 1962 at the height of the cold war.
Apartment houses--Tacoma; Vista Manor Apartments (Tacoma); Scaffolding--Tacoma;