What is 150 feet long, 10 feet high, and has a serious over-bite? a mechanical haunted monster, of course. Erskine Manufacturing Co. of Puyallup has developed especially for Halloween this "experimental" model for public viewing near Willows Shopping Center, South 112th and Meridian. Proceeds will benefit Puyallup-area organizations.
Photo appeared in article, "WARNING: Possible health hazard" TNT 10/30/1974 p.A4

A night view of Mueller-Harkins Buick dealership decorated for Christmas. A Buick has been placed on top of the roof of the service marquee with trees and "Make this a Buick Christmas" banner. Glass-topped Texaco gas pumps, a Firestone neon sign, US Royal Master tire banner, and a motor oil display are also shown. The dealership's neon sign advertising Buick shines brightly on the vertical sign. TPL-10295

Mueller-Harkins Motor Co. (Tacoma); Automobile dealerships--Tacoma--1950-1960; Buick automobile; Christmas decorations; Window displays--Tacoma--1950-1960; Electric signs--Tacoma--1950-1960;

Back of Photo:
"Tacoma Needle Exchange on a downtown street.
Dave Purchase gives a clean hypodermic needle to an I.V. drug user after the use put a used needle into the red plastic container on the table.
1988? 1989? Photo by Peter Haley, The News Tribune (Tacoma), 1950 S. State, Tacoma, WA 98405

Front of Photo:
"Dave Purchase, founded the needle exchange program in Tacoma. Pic Credit: Morning News Tribune 1988"

Back of Photo:
"Purchase, Dave, he runs the needle exchange downtown Tacoma
Q and A
(Photo by Peter) Haley 1/6/88"

Back of Photo:
"David Purchase
Directors David Purchase (left) and Vince Scalia
Photography by Jerry Buck".

Front of Photo:
"Dave Purchase (center, in hat and sunglasses) hands out clean hypodermic needles in exchange for used ones on Commerce Street in Tacoma. Standing next to him is a Pierce County Health Dept. worker who is engaged in a survey. (shot 2/7/89).

Back of Photo:
"Dave Purchase hands out clean hypodermic needles in exchange for used ones on Commerce Street near 17th. Next to him is a Pierce County Health Department worker who is working on a survey."

(For) "Severson story"
(Photo by Peter) "Haley 2/7/89"

Ed Taylor Barber & Beauty Salon. View of exterior of modern one-story building with traditional barbershop striped pole attached. February 23, 1969, saw the grand opening of the remodeled Ed Taylor Barber & Beauty Salon in the So. 23rd and K (now Martin Luther King Jr Way) neighborhood. Photograph ordered by Puget Sound National Bank.

Barbershops--Tacoma--1960-1970; Beauty shops--Tacoma--1960-1970; Signs (Notices); Facades--Tacoma--1960-1970; Ed Taylor Barber & Beauty Salon (Tacoma);

In February of 1969 Edward Taylor (far left) showed a new electric hair clippers to an unidentified customer in his newly remodeled barber shop. Mr. Taylor opened the Ed Taylor Barber & Beauty Salon at 2151 South K Street (now Martin Luther King, Jr. Way) in Tacoma's Hilltop area in 1965. With "lots of hard work" and help from the Small Business Administration he was able to develop a salon that could accommodate all types and textures of hair. In a News Tribune article published in February of 1972 he was shown working on the hair of Mel Jackson, at that time administrative assistant to Tacoma's city manager.

Barbershops--Tacoma--1960-1970; Beauty shops--Tacoma--1960-1970; Shaving equipment; Ed Taylor Barber & Beauty Salon (Tacoma); Taylor, Edward;

Grand opening of Ed Taylor Barber & Beauty Salon. Beauticians Alice Burns (foreground) and Willie May Harris smile at the photographer while at work with two customers. On February 23, 1969, Ed Taylor celebrated the grand opening of his remodeled combination beauty salon and barber shop at So. 23rd & K (now Martin Luther King, Jr. Way). Photograph ordered by Puget Sound National Bank.

Barbershops--Tacoma--1960-1970; Beauty shops--Tacoma--1960-1970; Hairdressing--Tacoma--1960-1970; Ed Taylor Barber & Beauty Salon (Tacoma); Burns, Alice; Harris, Willie May;

Back of Photo:
On his way to his aunt's apartment complex for a swim in the pool there, 7-year-old Ken Posey ("Cool Papa") leads Corey Bell, 8 (left rear) -- Ken's uncle -- and Errol Mares, 8, on a shortcut. In background, at corner of S. 15th and M Streets, stands brown apartment house, a former crack house now boarded up by police.
K Street Story -- Amy Kunhardt

Taken for the Tacoma News Tribune article titled, "K Street Kids" Aug 19, 1988, Fri p.C1 (see "Hilltop Neighborhood 1988-1992"clipping file)

Back of Photo:
Her doll accompanies Aisha Bell most days as the 5-year-old plays in the S. 15th Street neighborhood.
K Street Story -- Amy Kunhardt

Taken for the Tacoma News Tribune article titled, "K Street Kids" Aug 19, 1988, Fri p.C1 (see "Hilltop Neighborhood 1988-1992"clipping file)

Back of Photo:
Five-year-old Aisha Bell (left) eats her lunch on the front steps of a neighbor's house, watched by her older sister Lashanda, 10 and her niece, Tenika Posey, 3. (Tenika is sister of Cool Papa.)
K Street Story -- Amy Kunhardt

Taken for the Tacoma News Tribune article titled, "K Street Kids" Aug 19, 1988, Fri p.C1 (see "Hilltop Neighborhood 1988-1992"clipping file)

Back of Photo:
Four-year-old Rochelle Atkins plays with a hula hoop at the People's Center playground on S. 15th and K Streets.
K Street Story -- Amy Kunhardt

Taken for the Tacoma News Tribune article titled, "K Street Kids" Aug 19, 1988, Fri p.C1 (see "Hilltop Neighborhood 1988-1992"clipping file)

Back of Photo:
Thirteen-year-old Jeffrey Colvin flashes the hand sign of the Crips. (See Story: Colvin is one of two teenagers interviewed who seem to watch and respect the gang members.)
K Street Story -- Amy Kunhardt

Taken for the Tacoma News Tribune article titled, "K Street Kids" Aug 19, 1988, Fri p.C1 (see "Hilltop Neighborhood 1988-1992"clipping file)

Four-year-old Roger Spadoni, son of Julius Spadoni, smiles broadly in an August 1951, photograph. Roger and his six-year-old sister, Linda, came from Gig Harbor to get their pictures taken. He has his short hair neatly parted to one side and is wearing a plaid sports coat with a white shirt underneath.

Spadafore, Roger; Children--Clothing & dress--Tacoma--1950-1960;

Interior of Lloyd Suiter Tire Company showing blower-meld equipment. Lloyd Suiter, the owner, stands inside a stack of graduated sized truck tires. A woman (likely Margaret Suiter) stands nearby smiling at the camera.

Lloyd Suiter Tire Co. (Tacoma); Suiter, Lloyd; Tire industry--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Margaret Suiter (Mrs. Lloyd Suiter), Mrs. John Kaufman, and Mrs. Frank Graham (L-R), dressed in leather jackets, ties, and riding pants, posed with their prize-winning hunting dogs in February of 1939. All three dogs had competed at the West Coast Field Trails where the women performed as the as dogs' handlers. Mrs. Suiter, with her "Suiter's Lady Deluxe," won the all-age group at the West Coast Field Trials. Mrs. Kaufman's "Jodowah" placed second in the trials' puppy event while the "Golden Calodine" of Mrs. Graham won the puppy event. (T. Times, 2/9/1939, p. 15-alternate photograph).

Suiter, Lloyd--Family; Kaufman, John--Family; Graham, Frank--Family; Hunting dogs--Tacoma; Dogs--Tacoma--1930-1940;

Patty and Vicki Wilkinson are barefoot and crouching with guitars in hand in an unusual January 10, 1964, photograph. They may have been part of the Dave Bunker Quintet. Identification provided by patron.

Guitars;

Tacoma Public Library - McCormick Branch (later Wheelock branch)

Tacoma Public Library - McCormick Branch (later Wheelock Branch)

Tacoma Public Library - Martin Luther King Jr. Branch

Back of photo:
L Brown story
Carrie Thomas gets one of the few good vantage points to be had in a crowded ceremony at MLKing Branch of the Tacoma Public Library. (Her dad is the support, he is Dave Thomas, one of the project's architects).

North End Regional - McCormick proposed branch library

Tacoma Public Library - McCormick (Wheelock) Branch

Tacoma Public Library - Mottet Branch
Photo by Bruce Kellman

Float for Tacoma Public Utilities with Daffodil Queen waving at the 1956 Daffodil Parade. A Puyallup Furniture sign can be seen in the background.

Float for Tacoma Public Utilities with Daffodil Queen and other participants at the 1956 Daffodil Parade. A Macy's building with a Coca-Cola painted sign can be seen in the background along with a crowd on the roof of The Music Shop and a Jeweler with an obscured name.

Back of Photo:
Jimmy Carter
Warren Anderson

Back of Photo:
Chem. Poll.

Attorney Gail Haddock, 510 Perkins Building, commissioned a series of photographs depicting a scene of an accident. The accident apparently occurred near Holy Rosary Church, shown on the far right, and Wakefield Dr. (now South Tacoma Way). This view shows the steepness of the hill near the church.

Holy Rosary Church (Tacoma); Streets--Tacoma;