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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

In the foreground is the pond to the right of the pergola at the Sheridan Street entrance to Wapato Park. The pergola was built as part of a WPA project in the mid to late 1930s. At that time, they built three entrances, improving the one at Wapato Lake Drive and 64th, and adding one at S. Sheridan Ave and S. 72nd Street.

Monty's Independents (Garagemen) were an all-black baseball team in the newly formed 9-member "Community" league in 1931. The Community League played a 16-game season. The league was notable for having not only an all-black team, but an all-Italian team headed by Al Greco, an all-Japanese team from Fife, and an all-Slavic team. Other teams in the league were Jack & Jill, the Tacoma Red Men, the 10th Field Artillery, Steilacoom, and McKinley Hill. Monty's opened their season on May 10, 1931, against Steilacoom where they lost 31-3 in a 7-inning game. (TDL 5-10-31, 2-B) TPL-3688; G39.1-173; G53.1-007; G39.1-165;

Baseball players--Tacoma--1930-1940; African American baseball players;

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;

Video on the history of the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department.

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

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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.