- 5.1.2-TNT0040H
- 10/29/1987
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This building at the corner of 19th and K is being offered for sale as a site for an Arco Convenience store.
News/Martin
Bill Hunter Photo
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This building at the corner of 19th and K is being offered for sale as a site for an Arco Convenience store.
News/Martin
Bill Hunter Photo
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Prayers before sweeping up S. L Street, from left to right: Laura Neal, Theda Cherry, Priscilla Lisicich, and Lynitra Jackson. For Sandy Nelson story.
Melissa Stevenson Photo
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News/ National Night Out/ Hilltop Celebration and Prayer service.
Members of Safe Streets, and Hilltop neighbors joined their hands in prayer on the corner of S. 16th and L streets, where two Tacoma residents where shot and killed July 16th of 1990. The men, Scott Higley, and Chris Sherrod were remembered during a Hilltop celebration of National Night Out, with the theme "Sweep, Walk and Talk" for our neighborhood, or "SWAT." Two members of the gathered held hands and then placed a flower on the spot of the drug related shootings. Left to right in main pic are Randy Herrid, Sister Laura Neal, organizer of celebration, Father Bill Bichsel, and Theda Cherry.
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Hilltop (Home Ownership Program) Terence Thomas - Real-estate/Personal Banker, working with Evelyn Hargrove.
“Terence Thomas, a Seafirst real estate personal banker, talks with Evelyn Hargrove, one of the potential buyers, at a class Seafirst organized” to educate people about credit applications and real-estate transactions. Seafirst Bank, the Martin Luther King Housing Development Association, and the Tacoma Housing Authority organized a program to help low-income Pierce County residents purchase a home and revitalize Tacoma’s Hilltop Neighborhood.
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Hilltop (Home Ownership Program)
“One of the six houses in the Seafirst program awaits the remodelers’ hammers and saws.” Seafirst Bank, the Martin Luther King Housing Development Association, and the Tacoma Housing Authority organized a program to help low-income Pierce County residents purchase a home and revitalize Tacoma’s Hilltop Neighborhood. Four houses were purchased by the Martin Luther King Housing Development Association and two others were owned by the Tacoma Housing Authority. The Martin Luther King Housing Development served as the developer and remodel of all six homes while Seafirst Bank provided government backed loans to both agencies that would later be assumed by the buyers.
Hilltop Youth Activities Center - 1
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Checking the net
Three men in suits hold the base of a ladder while two other men in suits stand on the ladder to check the net of a basketball hoop.
Hilltop Youth Activities Center - 2
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Action Upward at Hilltop with story.
Photograph by Richards Studio
Three young children stand on either side on a man holding a basketball.
Hilltop Youth Activities Center - 3
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Sewing Class Begins
Photograph by Jerry Buck
Hilltop Youth Activities Center - 4
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Youth Center Remodel
Two construction workers stand on two planks of wood held up by sawhorses in order to use their hammers on a new ceiling.
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Ernesto, left, wife Marina, and son David stand in front of their store, El Compadre, at the corner of 40th and McKinley Ave. The store has become the hub of information and assistance for the stream of Mexicans who continue to flow into Pierce County. They will be receiving an award from a new Hispanic organization in town. (photo by David Brandt)
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Governor Dixie Lee Ray
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Hispanic Americans
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Cubans
Photograph by Bob Rudsit
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El Comite
Alex Almonte (left) Paul Castillo (right)
Photograph by Jerry Buck
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El Comite
Mrs. Yenin Webster
Photograph by Jerry Buck
Demonstrators show their support for the La Girls show by holding signs. After being cancelled at three Tacoma-area locations, the La Girls show was performed at the Sherwood Inn. The event brought both supporters and opponents of the La Girls show.
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Homosexuals
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News
A happy trio make their way up Broadway and towards Volunteer Park during todays Gay Pride parade in Downtown Seattle.
Geff Hinds Photo
Three people participating in a demonstration walk with their arms around each other. One holds a sign reading, "United Against Nazis! Radical Women."
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Demonstrators gather their signs together as they prepare to leave after the City Council vote on the sexual preference issue.
By Jim Bates
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A group of regulars enjoy the brew and camaraderie at Spags, a gay tavern in Seattle that is off-limits to GI's from Ft. Lewis, as per order of the military.
Voelpel Story
Haley
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News
The Rev. Don Magill from the Metropolitan Community Church at 1106 S. Yakima Ave. leads protestors outside Hosanna Christian Fellowship Church as Lon Mabonm here to speak against Tacoma's new gay rights ordinance.
(Photo by Russ Carmack)
Immigration and Emigration - 2
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"August Anderson clearing land." C1910, Lakebay, Washington
Courtesy of Mr. & Mrs. Gustaf Loustrom, Tacoma, WA
From In the Footsteps of Nicholas Delin: the Swedish Presence in Pierce County, a photography exhibition tracing the world of Swedish and Swedish-Finnish immigrants in Pierce County from 1887 - 1930, opening Thursday, December 14, 1995 at the Tacoma Public Library's Handforth Gallery (Main Library, 1102 Tacoma Avenue South in downtown Tacoma).
Immigration and Emigration - 1
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Theatrical Group, Order of Vasa, ca. 1912, Tacoma
Photograph courtesy of the Vasa Lodge Norden, Tacoma
From In the Footsteps of Nicholas Delin: the Swedish Presence in Pierce County, a photography exhibition tracing the world of Swedish and Swedish-Finnish immigrants in Pierce County from 1887 - 1930, opening Thursday, December 14, 1995 at the Tacoma Public Library's Handforth Gallery (Main Library, 1102 Tacoma Avenue South in downtown Tacoma).
Immigration and Emigration - 3
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News
Jlona, left, and her husband Willfried Schorno relaxed back home in their Matterhorn Restaurant in University Place now that they have been granted permanent resident status in the United States. Much paperwork, and support from local friends, helped the couple win their five year fight against deportation.
Bruce Kellman
Immigration and Emigration - 4
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News
People fill up the Immigration and Naturalization Service office in Seattle Tuesday. Wednesday at midnight is the deadline to apply for the amnesty program. Woman pulling computer form out of printer is Viodelda Mong-Poulsen, legalization clerk.
Carrie Robertson - Photo
Suki - Story
Immigration and Emigration - 5
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Citizenship Day
A Celebration of Citizenship
Formulating an official welcome to be extended Thursday to newly naturalized citizens and young voters are, left to right, Leonard W. Anderson, officer in charge of the Tacoma Office of Immigration and Naturalization, John V. Susan, president of the Tacoma-Pierce County Americanization Council, Mrs. Ragnhild Banister, a recently naturalized citizen, and John P. Boyd, district director of immigration and naturalization. Mrs. Bannister, who was born in Germany, will represent the 248 citizens naturalized through the local office this year when she speaks at the Citizenship Day program, which will start at 8 p.m. at the Public Utilities Building, 3628 S. 35th St.
Russ Carmack Photographer
Tepees and tents of 300 Native Americans were set up in a field in Washington D.C. The camp had been setup following a transcontinental motor trip called the Trial of Self-Determination. Sid Mills, a Nisqually tribal member said in an interview in D.C. that they were there to secure a future for Native Americans because currently there is none.
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Indians, Nisqually
Robert Thomas wears a raven headdress during the dedication ceremonies for the new Nisqually Tribal Center west of Yelm. Several hundred tribal members and guests attended the ceremonies which included speeches, songs, dances, and an outdoor feast prepared by Army and Nisqually cooks.
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Indians, Nisqually
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Indians, Nisqually
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Indians, Nisqually
Two people are standing by a campfire, while two other people lead two horses along the bank of a river. Two unmanned boats rest on the shore nearby.