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

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"

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)

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.

Back of Photo:
Purchase, Dave

Back of Photo:
Dave Purchase
JB 6-29-78

Back of Photo:
Dave Purchase
Tacoma Needle Exchange
by David Brandt 6/29/89

"Below: Bleach to sterilize needles that get a second use before being exchanged and condoms at right"

Back of Photo:
Needle Exchange
By Haley
Tacoma

Note: Photo likely by Peter Haley

Portrait of the Honorable Erling Tollefson, Municipal Court judge. Judge Tollefson was the youngest of the four Tollefson brothers who made their mark on Tacoma's landscape. Harold was a two-term Mayor of Tacoma, Thor, a multiple term Republican congressman and Rudy, a well known banker. Thor and Harold preceded him in admission to the bar. Erling Tollefson was born on December 13, 1913 and attended local Tacoma schools including Lincoln High School and the University of Puget Sound. He attended Gonzaga University Law School after being associated with Johnson Paint Co. for many years and passed the Washington bar exam in August of 1959. Judge and Mrs. Tollefson resided at 819 South Monroe. He would pass away on December 5, 1986. (TNT 8-16-59-article; TNT 4-30-78, C-13 article)

Tollefson, Erling;

ca. 1959. Copy of a customer's print of Jack Boyle, figure skating champion. Jack Boyle competed with the Lakewood Figure Skating Club in both the pairs with Patsy Hamm and the mens individuals. He grew up in the north end of Tacoma, attended Jason Lee Jr. High and graduated from Stadium High School in 1949. He won every men's division event in the Northwest, including senior mens, and held just about every Pacific Coast title, including senior mens and senior pairs. He and partner Patsy Hamm placed nationally in the junior and senior pairs. Boyle went pro in 1949 and skated with the Ice Follies, Holiday on Ice and other touring revues. He retired from professional skating in 1955 and entered the teaching field. Boyle taught skating for over 30 years in Vancouver, BC. ("History of Figure Skating in Pierce County" excerpt written by Jack Boyle)

Lakewood Figure Skating Club (Lakewood); Skaters; Ice Skating--Lakewood--1950-1960; Costumes; Boyle, Jack;

A plaque honoring Stephen Tyng Mathew reads, "He laid the foundation of the National Park Services defining and establishing the policies under which its areas shall be developed and conserved unimpaired for future generations. There will never come an end to the good that he has done."

Mathew, Stephen Tyng; Plaques--Washington; Monuments & memorials--Washington; National Park Service (Wash.);