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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

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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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Pacific Ave Interchange opening.
Woodrow Wilson High band plays for crowd.

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Steve Kirby (Kirbys)

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Demolished Town
The empty shell of the old Hanford High School is the largest remaining sign of the farm town of Hanford, WA., which was demolished along with White Bluffs to make way for nuclear weapons plants near the Columbia River fifty years ago March 6th. Hanford's name lives on as the moniker of the sprawling Hanford nuclear reservation in southeastern Washington. Wartime urgency doomed the towns.
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Aerial view of Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad terminals and Shaffer terminals at Tacoma, Washington.

Chapin Bowen Inc. Photographers

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Snapshot Contest 1980
Honorable Mention Week 5, Grand Prize Winner - Eugen D. Seiter Jr., Tacoma, WA

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Tacoma--Historical Buildings and Sites

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Judy Cantrell changes tires
Photo by Bruce Kellman

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EverActive

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6th grade teacher, Art Rorem, helps 11-year-old student Stacey Johnston with a language arts problem as some of the 30 other students look on. (at left is Aimee Medicus, 12, and behind her, Seth Carlson, 11) Lowell Elementary in Tacoma.
Jeff Larsen/photo
Susan Gordan/class size story

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Southbound traffic on I-5 in Seattle was backed up North of N. 45th street Saturday afternoon because of a wreck near the convention center downtown. Shot was taken from an overpass at North 45th. The lane on the right with no traffic is the express lane.
Bruce Kellman for South King Edition

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Steve Kirby (background right) and Louis Neietzel (background left) keep score as Ken Raske (foreground) and Art Seeley (pointing finger at numbers), from the Auditors office opened up more than 150 mechanical voting machines in the storage warehouse as totals were checked against the paper precinct reports prepared on election night. Louis Neietzel is the 29th District Chairperson.

Photo by Russ Carmack.

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Maxine Mimms
Photo by Jerry Buck

"Staff member Kevin Coley hugged a drop-in at Nativity House, a Commerce Street haven for the homeless." The Liberty Project revitalizing downtown Tacoma's Lower Pacific will most likely scatter the homeless population. However, according to people and organizations who work with rehabilitating people, it will not end the homelessness issue. It was suggested that the plan involve housing and training for the disadvantaged.

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Nativity House Worker & "Drop-In"
Larson

A black-and-white photograph taken at Yosemite National Park was a $500 honor award winner in last year's Kodak International Newspaper Snapshot Awards contest. Judges were impressed with "not only the wide range of tone, but the wide range of textures that beautifully complement each other" in the photo. The News Tribune summer snapshot contest is a little more than a week from being completed. Winners of weekly prizes, plus honorable mention certificate winners, will compete in a final local contest to be considered for entry in the international contest and will vie for cash and travel prizes in the amount of $55,000. Deadline for this week's contest is 9 a.m. Monday and the final week's deadline is at 9 a.m. August 11.

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News (Photo by Russ Carmack)
Judy Kipp, from the Tacoma Historical Society, reads from her notes at the corner of S. 11th and A. St. pointing out the local sites such as the Weyerhaeuser Co. Building which use of be called the Tacoma Building. Also from that location is the Perkins Building which was completed in 1906, and prior to the construction of the Eleventh Street Bridge in 1911. The VIP group went on a modified version of Walking Tour 2. some of the other sites they saw was the Bank of California, the Pantages Theatre, the location of the old Peoples-Store, The Rhodes Store, and other notable locations.