1 image. Tacoma Gas Co. Bldg. Luther Twichell, arch.
TDL 6/12/1910 Real Estate Edition (sketch)
TDL 1/9/1912 Suppl. Ad (il) TNL 4/7/1918 p.A6 Attractive Military Store has everything to meet need of officers and soldiers (interior il of Military Store at 109 So. 10th St.)
TDL 10/24/1926 p.G11 (il)
TDL 5/16/1937 p.B8 10th St. building is sold by Bott (includes mention of C.F. Metsker Map Co. at 111 So. 10th St.) ----- Washington Gas & Electric Co.
TNT 12/11/1938 p.A12 (interior il) -----
TNT 9/30/1946 p.7 (permit taken to demolish bldg.) ----- Washington Natural Gas Co.
TDL 1/23/1916 p.24 New quarters for Peerless Grill ----- Post Gardens TNL 11/11/1917 p.11 Two young ladies open a new cafe TNL 12/23/1917 p.8 Whisky empties bring raid ... -----
TDL 11/25/1924 p.1,2 Landmark passes (bldg. to be demolished to make way for the Bank of California)
TDL 11/30/1924 p.E8 (il)
TDL 1/18/1925 p.A2 (il)
TDL 10/30/1927 p.E8 Tearing down of old Tourist Hotel ...
12 images. Bank of California John Graham, arch. J.E. Bonnell & Son, contr. -Italian Renaissance with Ionic columns -Wilkeson sandstone and granite -interior of walnut and Travertine masonry -site includes 1009-13 Pacific Ave. -opened 10/8/1928 -annex added in 1964 (SEE: 1002 A ST.) -plans at TPL
TDL 11/25/1924 p.1 Bank of California to erect home (sketch) T.Times 11/25/1924 Bank buys Pacific Ave. site for home
TDL 11/30/1924 p.E8 Pacific Avenue will be lair of men in 3 years
TNT 9/24/1927 New bank home to rise (sketch)
TDL 9/25/1927 p.A10 Local bank to have new home
TDL 10/30/1927 p.E8 Excavation for new bank home to start
TDL 12/18/1927 p.A18 Plumbing contract let for new bank
TDL 2/19/1928 p.A8 Superstructure for bank rising (il under construction)
TDL 3/4/1928 p.G5 (il of 25-ton girder for bldg. being transported to site)
TDL 4/8/1928 p.E8 Pillars for bank run to $3,500 each
TNT 10/6/1928 New bank building ready (il) T.Times 10/6/1928 Opens Monday (il,interior il)
TDL 10/7/1928 p.A1 New bank home opens tomorrow (il) p.A8 (ad,il,interior il)
TDL 10/8/1928 p.1 New bank is in readiness for opening p.3 (ad,sketch) T.Times 10/8/1928 Progress of Tacoma (sketch)
TDL 10/9/1928 p.2 Thousands inspect new bank temple
TNT 3/23/1948 p.9 "Drive-up" banking service opens
TNT 5/6/1948 p.1 FBI joins hunt for bandit (il)
TNT 5/8/1949 p.A1 Hundreds attend city's 1st rhododendron show (interior il)
TNT 1/20/1952 p.C15 New bank parking lot (il)
TNT 1/27/1952 Free parking service ... drive-up service continued
TNT 10/28/1962 p.A8 ... approved for fallout shelters
TNT 4/21/1963 p.B7 (permit taken for neon sign)
TNT 4/7/1963 p.A13 Civil Defense takes long drink: 26,250 gallons of water stored (interior il)
TNT 7/8/1963 p.4 Millionth car uses bank's parking lot
TNT 7/5/1964 p.B11 Bank of California to mark 100th birthday
TNT 11/22/1964 Work starts on $475,000 bank addition (new bldg. across Court A, connected by 48 ft. wide canopy) (John Graham & Co., arch. and Macdonald Bldg. Co., contr.)
TNT 2/15/1966 p.1 Car used in holdup abandoned
TNT 2/22/1966 p.A1 Tacoma man charged in robbery of bank
TNT 5/28/1967 p.A17 California Bank plans to remodel (John Graham & Co. / Frank Sando, arch. and Macdonald Bldg. Co., contr.)
TNT 8/18/1968 p.A19 Remodeling of Bank of Calif. starts (John Graham & Co., arch., Macdonald Building Co., contr. and John Brautovich, interior decorator) (interior il)
TNT 12/10/1968 p.10,11 Grand opening (interior sketch after remodeling)p.39 Bank of California plans grand opening
TNT 1/29/1992 p.F1 A lock on tradition (il,interior il) T.Voice 2/13/1997 p.5 A century of service Business Examiner 11/10/2003 p.1 Union Bank building is getting into a new line
TNT 11/11/2003 p.D1 Downtown bank likely to move ... (bldg. sold)
TNT 2/15/2005 p.D1 Freshly minted; Union Bank of California moves ... (il) Puget Sound Business Journal 2/17/2023 p.16 Tacoma landlords are turning offices into apartments 979.7 W28A April 1928 (sketch) ----- Inexim Flexible Packaging Jay Yi, owner
TNT 7/20/2007 p.D1 Historic bank building gets a new owner (il) ----- Puget Sound Business Journal 10/14/2022 p.8 Snapshot (ext il)
12 images. Alpha Opera House A.J. Baker & General John W. Sprague, builder -later occupied by the Brunswick Billiard Hall
TDL 2/17/1884 (editorial on lack of heating in bldg.)
TDL 10/4/1885 Anti-Chinese meeting
TDL 2/23/1889 p.4 Its celebration (statehood celebration held in bldg.)
TDL 1/19/1890 p.6 Theatres in old days T.Morning Globe 4/19/1890 p.4 The Alpha Opera House; its career ended - it gives way to a restaurant
TDL 12/11/1890 p.5 Closed by the police after one nights performance (the Tacoma Musee at 1011 Pacific Ave.) TDN 7/17/1891 p.8 A new place of amusement (Brunswick Billiard Hall) T.Times 10/8/1928 Bank building site was famous one in olden days 979.72 H91 Vol.I p.302 (Steir & Slaugher lease bldg. in 1883 and open a roller skating rink) B R482Rg (il)
Approximate address. "Sunburst" Model Home Home Builders Assoc. of Greater Tacoma, builder Dick A. Hill, arch. Hudtloff Construction Co., contr. -prefabrication by Fairliner Structures -house built at the Univ. of Puget Sound Fieldhouse for the 1961 Home Show -house moved to Lakewood after the show's conclusion
TNT 2/26/1961 p.A16 Home Show will have three models
TNT 3/1/1961 p.A6 Sunburst, model home, has warmth
TNT 3/13/1961 p.23-28,34 (il)
TNT 3/14/1961 p.2 (sketch)
TNT 3/15/1961 p.A1 Home Show opens doors at Fieldhouse
TNT 3/16/1961 p.A1 Home Show's model -- house, that is -- a hit
TNT 3/26/1961 p.B7 Model home to be moved to new site ----- Eugene B. & Doris Nelson