Group of fifteen men in front of the Lincoln Branch of Puget Sound National Bank. In 1936, C.W. Greening was manager of the Lincoln Branch.

Banks--Tacoma; Banking--Tacoma--1930-1940; Bankers--Tacoma; Puget Sound National Bank (Tacoma); Greening, Charles W.;

Stanley L. Rosso opened the Rosso Radio Company store at 706 South 38th Street in 1931. In this photograph from January, 1936 there are two washing machines on display outside the store, an "A B C" washer to the left and a "Maytag" to the right. Stanley Rosso remained in business at this address until WWII. After the war, he opened a new store, the Rosso TV & Appliance Company, at 756 South 38th St. one block over from his old store. This store closed around 1958.

Rosso Radio Company (Tacoma); Washing machines; Appliance stores--Tacoma--1930-1940;

The Rosso Radio Company store at 706 South 38th Street, owned by Stanley Rosso, carried a wide selection of large appliances, including washing machines, refrigerators, and upright vacuum cleaners. The "Easy" washer in the center of this photograph from January 1936 could be purchased for $54.50, or $1 per week on time. The cashiers window is at the back of the store. Stanley Rosso remained in business at this location until WWII.

Rosso Radio Company (Tacoma); Washing machines; Appliance stores--Tacoma--1930-1940;

Five women looking at book "Piano Jazz" on front porch of a house. Taken for the Bremerton Sun newspaper on September 24, 1935. The women were the committee completing the final arrangements for the annual Grand Ball sponsored by the Olympic Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star in Bremerton. The Ball was held at the Masonic Temple on October 4, 1935. The women are, left to right, Mrs. Sadye Dunlap; Mrs. Gertrude Reynolds, Mrs. Beth Young, worthy matron, Mrs. Alice Duckwiler and Bertha Tappe. (Bremerton Sun 10/3/1935, pg. 2)

Clubwomen--Bremerton; Sheet music covers; Order of the Eastern Star, Olympic Chapter (Bremerton); Dunlap, Sadye; Reynolds, Gertrude; Young, Beth; Duckwiler, Alice; Tappe, Bertha;

ca. 1934. Staff of the 1934 "Tamanawas," group portrait in front of Jones Hall, College of Puget Sound. Front row: Dorothy Foxwell, Phyllis Swanson, Gertrude Davis, Annabel Biggle, Eunice Perkins, Maurine Henderson and Harriet Rosenzweig. Back row: Howard Clifford, Carl Faulk, Jack Slatter, Fred Stockbridge, Richard Poole, Woodard. Not pictured are editor Delmore Martin and Business Manager Richard Zehnder. (WSHS) (1934 Tamanawas)

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--Group portraits--1930-1940; Universities & colleges--Tacoma;

ca. 1934. Campus Day 1934 at the College of Puget Sound. Campus Day is the time set aside for the annual general spring campus cleanup. Pictured are a group of student workers enjoying the free lunch served by the Spurs in Howarth Hall after the annual frosh-soph tug-of-war contest. (WSHS) (1934 Tamanawas)

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Universities & colleges--Tacoma;

ca. 1934. Girls freshman baseball nine won the annual baseball tournament in 1934, defeating the sophomores 18 to 9. Front row: Perkins, Davis, Ida Larson (captain), Hagberg. Back row: Fulton, Giske, Beerbohm, Hanson, Ramsby. (WSHS) (1934 Tamanawas)

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Baseball players--Tacoma--1930-1940;

ca. 1934. Paradise Inn was captured at dusk in this 1934 photograph. The Inn is located in the subalpine region of Paradise Valley on the slopes of Mount Rainier. It is one of the oldest high elevation resorts in the Pacific Northwest and one of the earliest ski resorts in the nation. It was designed by the Tacoma architectural firm of Heath, Gove and Bell and was built in 1916-17 of Alaska Cedar. The trees were left after the 1885 fire and the resulting logs were weathered to a silvery glow. The design is T shaped with a 1920 annex running parallel to the main building. (www.cr.nps.gov/history)

Paradise Inn (Wash.); Rainier, Mount (Wash.);

This photograph of young children holding daffodils was taken at the Immanuel Presbyterian Church on Easter morning, 1935. The church, at 901 No. J Street, was built in 1908 and services began there in April, 1909. Designed by Ambrose J. Russell, the California (Spanish) mission style church was one of the earliest churches in this architectural style in the Northwest. It was included in the historic buildings "Grand Homes of Tacoma" tour in 1994.

Immanuel Presbyterian Church (Tacoma); Presbyterian churches--Tacoma--1930-1940; Easter--Tacoma; Children--Tacoma--1930-1940; Daffodils;

ca. 1936. The small lake at the entrance of Point Defiance Park, the jewel of the Metropolitan Park District, circa 1936. Strolling paths and evergreens surround the water feature. Originally a US military reservation, the city of Tacoma was given permission to develop the area into a park in 1888.

Point Defiance Park (Tacoma); Parks--Tacoma; Lakes & ponds--Tacoma;

ca. 1943. Huge Texaco tanker docked at Union Oil on the Tideflats. (WSHS)

Storage tanks--Tacoma; Fuel tanks; Tacoma Tideflats (Tacoma); Industrial facilities--Tacoma--1940-1950; Waterfronts--Tacoma;

The boys of Saint Patrick's beat Visitation, Holy Rosary, Sacred Heart, and Saint Leo's to win the Parochial Basketball League title in 1936. Only the last names of the players on St. Patrick's team were listed in the Tacoma Times when this photograph was published on March 13, 1936. They were: (l to r, standing) Burkehouse, Kroha, Haaker, King (the manager) and Giannelli; (l to r, seated) Weaver, Wonder, Realey and DesMaris.

Church schools--Tacoma; St. Patrick's Parochial School (Tacoma); Basketball players--Tacoma--1930-1940; School children--1930-1940;

Stadium High School Maritza Opera. Thirteen students, five girls and eight boys, on steps of building. Four of the boys wear letter sweaters with "S" on front. (filed with Argentum)

Stadium High School (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Operas & operettas--Tacoma--1930-1940;

College of Puget Sound Summer Class, July 1935. Portland Area School of Ministerial Training. (WSHS)

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Universities & colleges--Tacoma--1930-1940;

Members of the Pacific Lutheran College senior class play, "Once There Was A Princess," were photographed in May of 1936 positioned on a curved wooden bridge located on the college campus in Parkland, along the edge of a stream. The play was presented May 30th. Pictured were, seated in left foreground, Eline Benson, Margaret Craft and Jean-Marie Fowler. Standing, left to right: John Dreibelbis, Volly Norby, Eula Mae Goff, Thelma Daniels (as the Princess), leading man Harold Anderson, Eleanor Raudenbaugh, Ellen Bergstrom and Ione Madsen. Seated, right foreground: Virginia Davis and Gary Pflueger. (T. Times 5/28/1936, pg. 12)

Pacific Lutheran College (Parkland)--1930-1940; Students--Parkland--1930-1940; Theatrical productions--Parkland; Actors; Actresses;

The Stadium High School baseball team, the Stadium Tigers, was photographed on the field at Stadium Bowl in May of 1936. The team, undefeated in eleven starts, was playing for the Southwest Washington title. The man to the left in the plain white sweatshirt is Coach John Heinrick. After a lapse of seven years, baseball was making a comeback as a major sport at Stadium High School, brought back by Coach Heinrick in his first teaching year at Stadium. Names, according to the Tacoma Times, for the front row, left to right: future U.S. District Court Judge Jack Tanner, (Nathan Hale) Ed Turner, Harry Werbisky, Fred LeVeque and Bill Stocklin. Second row: Doug Turnbull, Tom Hall, Bill Zenk, Mal Stevens, Vince Lucich, Maurice Turnbull and Dick Pease. Third row: Bob Knesal, Arnold Schurb, Mel Gillespie, Al Libke, Marion Scott and Paul Barragar. (T. Times 5/28/1936, pg. 15 ; "The Tahoma" 1936 SHS yearbook) (Corrections to newspaper account given by family member of the team)

Stadium High School (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Stadium Bowl (Tacoma); Baseball--Tacoma--1930-1940; Baseball players--Tacoma--1930-1940; Heinrick, John; Students--Tacoma--1930-1940;

Lincoln High School Band in front of entrance to school building. (T. Times) (WSHS)

Bands--Tacoma--1930-1940; Youth bands--Tacoma--1930-1940; Band uniforms--Tacoma; Lincoln High School (Tacoma);

ca. 1936. College of Puget Sound Choral Society leaving on bus tour of the state. Large group of boys and girls in and beside Washington Motor Coach System double-decker bus. (filed with Argentum)

College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Choirs (Music); Students--Tacoma--1930-1940;

Pacific Lutheran College Football Team. Large group of players wearing practice uniforms in four rows on field. (filed with Argentum)

Football players--Parkland; Pacific Lutheran College (Parkland)--1930-1940; Universities & colleges--Parkland--1930-1940; Football--Parkland--1930-1940;

College of Puget Sound play. View of stage, six couples dressed in formal attire gathered in room and on stairs. Porter with suitcase on right. (filed with Argentum)

Theatrical productions--Tacoma--1930-1940; Universities & colleges--Tacoma; College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1930-1940;

Lincoln High School's a cappella choir stands before school's main entrance on December 16, 1936. The choir was trained and directed by Margaret Goheen, front row right. (T. Times 3/6/1937, pg. 8) (filed with Argentum)

Lincoln High School (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Choirs (Music); Students--Tacoma--1930-1940; Goheen, Margaret;

Players from the Derringer School Football team pose with their trophy football after being crowned the 1936 Class B Champions. Pictured with the team is Principal Adams. Photograph ordered by the Tacoma Times. (filed with Argentum)

Football players--Derringer; Public schools--Derringer;

Stanley School 6A Class in June of 1937. The students pose in front of the original school, which opened in 1925.

School children--Tacoma--1930-1940; Group portraits; Stanley Elementary School (Tacoma); Public schools--Tacoma--1930-1940; Education--Tacoma;

Cast of Robert Gray Junior High play. Six girls and four boys in period costume on school steps; photograph was taken in June, 1937. The girl on the farthest left, rear, has been tentatively identified as Leah Kelley.

Gray Junior High School (Tacoma); Public schools--Tacoma--1930-1940; Theatrical productions--Tacoma--1930-1940;

Cast of play at McCarver Junior High. Many students in nautical or ethnic costume, including several Japanese-American girls in kiminos, are serenaded by a string quartet. Teachers look on.

Public schools--Tacoma; McCarver Junior High School (Tacoma); Theatrical productions--1930-1940; Costumes;

By February of 1944, the traffic problems on the Tideflats, resulting from the increased employment at the Seattle-Tacoma shipyard, had subsided so much that after a nation wide survey it was found to have the "best handled traffic of any plant" in the US. This photo, looking north on Alexander Ave., was taken of the outgoing traffic, involving thousands of employees, just after the change of shift. Over 300 Victory busses, privately owned vehicles of all shapes and sizes, carried 28 per cent of all traffic to outlying areas, such as Enumclaw, Olympia and Aberdeen. Municipal busses carried 44 per cent and private cars, with car pools, carried 28 per cent. It took about 18 minutes to clear out the congestion after shift change. (Sea-Tac Keel, Vol. III, No. 4, pg.4-5; February 26, 1944 issue)

Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. (Tacoma); World War, 1939-1945--War work--Tacoma; Automobiles--1940-1950; Traffic congestion--Tacoma--1940-1950; Mass transit--Tacoma--1940-1950; Buses--Tacoma--1940-1950;

By April of 1943, the in-plant training school at the Tacoma yard of the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. had been in operation about a year. The classes helped fill the gap between the shortage of available skilled laborers and the increased number of jobs in the defense industry. Both motion and still pictures were used in training. Here instructor Pete Neufeld is operating a table projector. The trainees are M.A. Smith, T. James, R.V. Sutherland, W. Ehret, K. Taylor and L. Sherman. (Sea-Tac Keel, Vol. 1 No. 7, Pg.4-5, May 8, 1943 issue)

Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. (Tacoma); Welding; World War, 1939-1945--War work--Tacoma;

In July of 1935, Margarite Shultz was photographed holding the winner's trophy for the annual "Capital to Capital" cruiser race. Most of the previous competitions had been on courses charted from Olympia to Juneau or from Olympia to Victoria. But the 8th annual race, beginning on July 5, 1935, started at the municipal dock in Tacoma and ran 150 nautical miles to Nanaimo, BC. (T.Times 7/25-27, 1935 & 7/29/1935, pg. 1) for more pictures of the same event, see series D598

Regattas--1935; Yacht racing--1935; Shultz, Margarite;

Four women seated under an umbrella at the Country Club. (WSHS)

Socialites--Tacoma--1930-1940; Clothing & dress--1930-1940; Tacoma Country & Golf Club (Tacoma);

Jennie (Mrs. Overton G.) Ellis posed in her garden with her daughter-in-law in May of 1936. Mrs. Overton G. Ellis Jr. was visiting with her in-laws for a few weeks. Her husband was in the United States consular service and they were travelling from their station in Budapest to his new assignment in Buenos Aires. (T. Times 5/30/1936, pg.7) (WSHS)

Ellis, Jennie; Ellis, Overton G.--Family;