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Teacher: Stacy Rodius 'mans' desk
Photo by Jerry Buck

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--Freeway Model Displayed--
A 40-foot model of the Tacoma Freeway as it will appear when completed in several years is being displayed this month on the second floor of the county-City Building. Picture shows freeway running east to and over the Puyallup River. G. M. Schuster, city public works director, front right, points to state approach to city's projected Yakima Avenue Bridge. Under his arm are Delin Avenue and Tacoma Avenue undercrossings. Behind Schuster are Harold A. Hagestad, left, coordinating engineer between Tacoma and state, and Myron Calkins, city engineer. They are pointing to the complex of crossings and approaches that will be the Pacific Avenue Interchange, designed to relieve Freeway of Cross-town traffic congestion.

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Steve Kirby

A cartoon credited to Frank Shiers Jr. Five people wearing business suits examine plans spread out on a desk. The office door says "Energy Dept."

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"Port of Tacoma Pier 7"
"Tacoma Longshoremen Race to Unload Toyotas"

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Snapshot Contest 1977
Grand Prize Winner - Juan M. Chavez, Ft. Lewis, WA

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Looking SE from downtown
Photo By Peter Haley

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Western Airline's Katherine Evans, first woman ramp agent in the Seattle area, unloading a cargo container at Sea-Tac International Airport.
05/07/1975

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Norbert Paul and Maggie Heasley were a whirlwind at the weekly square dance at the Kent Senior Center called "Ring N Swing" last Thursday. Every Thursday from 1 to 3 seniors from around the area get together for the dance with a live caller.
Haley

Back of photo: Cascadia- Indian Tile Uncovered, Cascadia Juvenile Diagnostic Center

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Zookeeper: Dominic Wiebersch, aardvarks
Photograph by Jerry Buck

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--Who Needs a Sign?--
No arrow is necessary at the South 108th Street and Pacific Avenue intersection to point out Mount Rainier. Not in good weather anyway. The early spring, with crystal-like skies, is now in its seventh consecutive rainless day. It affords new opportunities to capture Tacoma's favorite mountain on film, as seen in this framed photograph by News Tribune Staff Photographer Wayne Zimmerman.

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Kirby, Steve

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At its peak, population at the Hanford Site swelled to 51,00, making it one of the largest construction camps in the world. Between 1943 - 45, 130 barracks, 900 temporary buildings and 4,300 trailers were built. Eighty tons of food were served each day in the eight mess halls.
Westinghouse Hanford Company photo

From clipping in file: "Pier 7 Extension Project Begins: Manson Construction and Engineering equipment dredging the $3 million extension to Pier 7 appear in this aerial photo taken by News Tribune staff photographer Bob Rudsit. The 900-foot concrete extension will provide a fourth berth for Pier 7, located on the northeast side of Sitcum Waterway between East 11th Street and Commencement Bay. The port's giant alumina storage domes and the tallow shipping tank farm, the latter at the left, dominate the aerial scene. Floating drydock for Aerojet's surface-effect test craft is at right.
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"Port of Tacoma - Pier 7"
"Pier 7 extension"
Photograph by Bob Rudsit

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Snapshot Contest 1978
Winner Week 3, Grand Prize Winner - Mary Ann Donohue, Tacoma WA

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Lower Pacific Ave.
Photograph by Bruce Larson

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Eighty-seven-year-old Rudy Anderson has earned the privelege of sacking out for a snooze in the middle of the Old Fashioned Senior Picnic held at Five Mile Lake County Park Thursday. He had just finished a lunch of barbecued hamburger and the Navy Band of Seattle had begun to play. Hundreds of seniors from around the area attended and activities included games and drawings as well.
Haley

Back of photo: Cascadia Apr 3 1976

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Pacific Ave Interchange opening.
Gov. Evans, 7-year-old Paul DuCharme, Daffodil Princess Diane Lind
Back: C. W. Beck, John T. McCutcheon, Tacoma Mayor Harold Tollefson

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Steve Kirby - Tacoma City Council Race: Position 5
Copyright 1997, Brian DalBalcon

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AP Newsfeatures Photo
White Bluffs Then
An unidentified man stands before a gas station in White Bluffs, Washington in this early undated photo. Along with Hanford, White Bluffs was purchased and obliterated by the federal government in 1943 to make room for the Manhattan Projects' plutonium plants to develop the atomic bomb. The desert-line terrain was considered virtually worthless by project planners.

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Port of Tacoma - General
Logs, Lots of 'Em

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Snapshot Contest 1979
Honorable Mention Week 3, Grand Prize Winner - Barbara Jarvis, Tacoma, WA
$100 - special merit award from Kodak

Norton Memorial. Erected by a grateful city, the Norton Memorial stands on a grassy plot at St. Helens and Tacoma Avenue and 1st St. South. A likeness of Percy Dunbar Norton, public servant and pioneer businessman, is engraved upon the stone. A small drinking fountain (later removed prior to WWII when scrap metal was essential for national defense) is attached. Percy Norton, related by marriage to two of the founders of the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co., served as manager of the firm as well as Tacoma City Council president at the time of his death, age 44, in April of 1900. Flags were flown at half mast at City Hall, colors lowered on mastheads of vessels loading at the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. dock, as well as the emblem on the lumber company offices' flagpole. His desk at council chambers would be draped in mourning for 30 days. The Tacoma Ledger in its April 14, 1900, tribute to Mr. Norton praised his "indomitable pluck, courage, and ability" in the building up of Tacoma and his "business sagacity and management" on the city council in enabling the city to "weather the hard times with its credit untouched." The Norton Memorial still partially remains at the same site, now called the Norton Memorial Park at 99 Tacoma Avenue South. (Tacoma Ledger, April 14, 1900, p. 1-article on Mr. Norton)

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Tacoma--Historical Buildings and Sites

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--Old Meets New--
The older generation tackles the technology of the new as 66-year-old Virginia Thorington tries her hand at working a video camera. Thorington is part of a group of Walla Walla, WA. area senior citizens who are taking video classes with the hope of learning how to produce their own television show.
Jeff Horner/Photo

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