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The Tacoma Spur was photographed from atop the First Interstate Plaza building while a dedication ceremony for the Locomotive Monument took place in the foreground next to the Spur.
News/Bruce Kellman

Back of photo: Travis Tyson (R) looks at the blood stains in his car from a drive-by shooting early Saturday a.m. at South M st. and S. 36th. From left: Gino Bertucci, Zan Tyson, and Willie Warner (squatting). rushton story haley 7/21/91

Back of photo: Loony (L), Jay Time (C) and Little Loony talk about motivations and experiences of crippin, belonging to the 23rd Street Hill Top Crips Gang. NEWS/GILBERT BILL HUNTER PHOTO

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Bulldozer

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Photograph by Bob Rudsit

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Darling of the Dump

Darling of the Dump
Lovely Jackie Aitken is crowned Miss Garbage Pit by Miss Tacoma. Angela Nicholson, in regal ceremonies this week at the City Dump. Miss Garbage Pit (also known as Miss Saniterri Landefille) will reign over the open house at the dump Saturday, sponsored by the Tacoma Junior Chamber of Commerce, Applauding the selection are the co-chairmen of the open house, John Ettner, left, and Phil Armour. TNT 05-13-1964 C2.

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Laurie Nelson belts out a tune to "Trash Toad" during a performance at Roosevelt Elem. School a key element in Tacoma's solid waste/recycling program is an assembly the city puts on at various elementary schools. It's a multi-media show that includes Laurie dancing and singing and a guy dressed up in a "Trash Toad" costume.
Photo by Russ Carmack

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The city of Tacoma has $2.8 million worth of machinery capable of turning garbage into small cubes suitable for burning. But the city is giving up hopes of finding an industrial purchaser of the cubes and is now looking for a way to use them itself.
Jerry Buck

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The Nob Hill Apartments overlooking the Tacoma landfill.
News/Abe
Photo/Bill Hunter

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--Tacoma Landfill Neighbors--
Neighbors of the Tacoma Landfill, Lila Hughes, left holding daughter Daisy, 2, and Winnie Prutzman, right, have filed affidavits with attorneys complaining about the foul smell and possible negative health affects to children the dump as meant to the neighborhood on Mason Street.
Photo by Dean J. Koepfler

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Volunteer Firemen for Vast Area

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Meridian and 224th The Last of the "Old Graham" Business District...
Bruce Larson

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Erick Johnson's home was moved to the South End.
Sign:
I will not Sell My Property To The City Or Mayor Parker.
No Parking Lot in My Front Yard.

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--House-Moving: "On-Abridged" Version-- Motorists on Interstate-5 near Tacoma had an unusual view Monday as this four-plex passed above them on a freeway overpass. The building was being moved from Tacoma's Hawthorne district, where a new sports-convention center will be built, to a vacant lot a few blocks up the street. Tacoma, WA, June 2, 1981
Freeway drivers gawked as an apartment trundled by. Tacoma, WA, April 17, 1983

This residence was one of the homes moved to make way for building the sports convention center in the Hawthorne neighborhood. Hunsaker’s House Movers of Silverdale placed the home on a barge. It will travel to a new neighborhood called Gorst in Bremerton and be resold. Photo by staff member Russ Carmack.

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Some Hawthorne homes were moved - this one by sea.

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The Hawthorne neighborhood - before the Dome

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Hilltop Area

SCAM (Sheridan, Cushman, Ainsworth, and M Street) neighborhood group members are shown picking up litter in the alleyway between South Sheridan and South M Street. It was the second annual clean up hosted by SCAM. “In addition to cleaning the alleys, the group has put pressure on neighborhood landlords to clear vacant lots of trash and high weeds and to demolish the remnants of partially raised structures.” Photo by staff member Jerry Buck

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Hilltop Area

SCAM (Sheridan, Cushman, Ainsworth, and M Street) neighborhood group members are shown picking up litter in the alleyway between South Sheridan and South M Street. It was the second annual clean up hosted by SCAM. “In addition to cleaning the alleys, the group has put pressure on neighborhood landlords to clear vacant lots of trash and high weeds and to demolish the remnants of partially raised structures.” Photo by staff member Jerry Buck.

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Trying to keep 'K' Street safe, Morris McCollum, President of 'K' Street Boosters, far left, has customers and passers-by sign a petition to keep the Hilltop patrolled by the same officers on the crime management team task force for 'K' Street.
Pictured, from left, are McCollum, Diaetta Walker, Henrietta George, Mary Radziski, manager of New Look Clothing on 'K' Street, and Virginia Taylor. The children are Lashwanda Walker, 19 months, in stroller, and Lapaschia Walker, 4-years-old. Both are daughter of Diaetta Walker. They want the streets kept safe so they can shop and let their kids play in the area. (photo by David Brandt)

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Joe Haynes, cleaning up debris from a room of an apartment that he owns with his wife. Earlier in the day they had found that alleged addicts were living in the squalor.
Photo by David Yee

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Tooting her own horn! Carolyn "Mickey" Cunningham, Basileus of Sigma Gamma Rho (her college sorority), toots down S. K Street in part of the ethnic fair on the Hilltop.
News/Szymanski
Photo by Bill Hunter

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Hilltop Area
Please credit photo by Russ Carmaile

Fenced area shows playground equipment along with a sign that reads: "A creative place for your child to stay when you must be gone. Hilltop Community Day Care Center, 1407 S. 'I' (Street). Hours: 6 am to 11 pm, Monday thru Friday".

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Monique Johnson, 3 yrs, can't contain her glee as she gets a horseback ride with Rich Gayles, a rodeo bull rider who rides by the name of "Daddy Rich", after the ethnic fair parade on the Hilltop.
News/Szymanski
Bill Hunter Photo

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Flower placed at shooting site during National Night Out.

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A Sad But Hopeful Look.....Pastor Lynn Farnum (Trinity Presbyterian Church), no stranger to the life on Tacoma's Hilltop and the plight of its children, gives a thoughtful glance down a stretch of streets on the Hill today as she joined a concerned group of local pastors and church leaders who briefly toured the area following a press conference they called to express concern and call attention to the Children's Initiative which they support. In the background (right arm raised) another spokesperson for the group, Rev. Dave Alger (Ex. Director of Associated Ministries) explains the sights to other members of the group.
News/Callahan
Geff Hinds Photo

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Hilltop Area

SCAM (Sheridan, Cushman, Ainsworth, and M Street) neighborhood group members are shown picking up litter in the alleyway between South Sheridan and South M Street. It was the second annual clean up hosted by SCAM. “In addition to cleaning the alleys, the group has put pressure on neighborhood landlords to clear vacant lots of trash and high weeds and to demolish the remnants of partially raised structures.” Photo by staff member Jerry Buck.

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Volunteer Edward Fynn sweeps away litter and broken glass from the sidewalk at 23rd and L Streets on Hilltop this morning as volunteers from the Hilltop Action Coalition, St. Joseph Hospital and citizens of the Hilltop community joined several on-duty officers from Tacoma PD in a sweep into the neighborhood to deliver some TLC as part of the "Area 5" neighborhood clean-up project. The group swept, cleaned and painted over graffiti the area from South 23rd to South 25th and from South K street to South Sheridan.
News/Godchaux
Geff Hinds Photo

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The Rev. Jerry Sanders rejoiced in his God given freedom from heroin and cocaine as he witnessed at an anti drug service at New Jerusalem Church of God in Christ, on the Hilltop, in Tacoma.
News/Maynard
Bruce Larson Photo

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Willie and Joyce Hellems, rows one and two, joined with others in the sanctuary of St. John The Baptist Church on 20th and J Street to pray for an end to the drug problem on Tacoma's Hilltop.
News/Eskenazi
Bruce Larson Photo