McDougal-Chamberlain Wedding. Full view of couple standing beside table. (filed with Argentum)

Weddings--Tacoma--1930-1940; Brides--1930-1940; Grooms (Weddings)--1930-1940;

ca. 1935. Wedding of Edwin Griffin and Nancy Hunt. Bride in lace gown with train holding bouquet in front of marble fireplace. (photo filed with Argentum)

Griffin, Nancy; Brides--1930-1940; Weddings--Tacoma--1930-1940; Griffin, Edwin L., 1908-1955--Marriage;

On July 31, 1936, promoter Rookie Lewis outdid himself by staging an authentic "Indian Wedding" as the evening's special attraction during his Walkathon (dance marathon) at the Century Ballroom in Fife. Chief White Eagle conducted the Native American wedding of So-To-Le-O and groom Qua-Le-Ales, with rites performed in sign language. Five different tribes participated in the wedding. The Walkathon was heavily attended by citizens of Tacoma and Seattle, since both cities had local ordinances forbidding such marathons. Approximately 30 people were pictured, first two rows were Native-Americans in costume, others may be some of the remaining participants in the Walkathon. Tribal blankets serve as backdrop. (T.Times 7-31-36, p. 4-article; 8-1-36, p. 5-article; www.historylink.org) (filed with Argentum)

Indians of North America--Clothing & dress; Weddings--Fife; Marathons--Fife;

Mr.and Mrs. Charles Campbell. Man wearing tweed suit, striped tie and glasses. Woman in long coat with hands in lap. (filed with Argentum)

Campbell, Charles--Family; Couples--1930-1940;

When vandals stole the Star of David and the Cross that were part of the display at the Living War Memorial Park at the foot of the Narrows Bridge, Leon Kleiner (center) joined forces with Earl Hanson (left) and Louis Crivelione (right) to return the religious symbols to the park. In March of 1961 a new plaque was installed at the park; the brass symbols were mounted on sandstone and attached to a block of concrete. Leon Kleiner got the material for the new monument and Louis Crivelione, a Tacoma Public Works Department employee, created the display. Earl Hanson was a gardener for Public Works. This park was demolished in 2003 to make room for the new Narrows Bridge; a new, larger War Memorial Park was dedicated in May of 2006. (TNT 3/28/1961 p.14)

Parks--Tacoma--1950-1960; Memorial Park (Tacoma); Tacoma Narrows Bridge (Tacoma); Kleiner, Leon; Hanson, Earl; Crivelione, Louis; Magen David; Symbols; Crosses; Monuments & memorials--Tacoma;

Mayor Harold Tollefson exchanged smiles with Julie Reihm in March of 1965, as she was made an honorary citizen of Tacoma. Ms. Reihm, 20, had just presented the mayor with a proclamation making him an honorary citizen of Disneyland. She was a special Disneyland Ambassador who was touring the country to publicize the amusement park's 10th anniversary. Ms. Reihm also made Mayor Tollefson an honorary member of the Anaheim City Council and bestowed upon him a free one-year pass to Disneyland and an official Disneyland color book. In return, the mayor made Ms. Reihm an honorary Tacoma citizen. G67.1-154 (TNT 3-24-65, A-10-article & alternate photograph)

Mayors--Tacoma--1960-1970; Tollefson, Harold M., 1908-1985; Reihm, Julie; Guests--Tacoma--1960-1970;

The City Beautification Committee met in South Tacoma on July 29, 1959 for an all day tour of Tacoma to plan projects to glamorize the city for the state's upcoming Century 21 Exposition in 1961. The group posed for this photograph in front of the former San Francisco trolley car owned by Steve Pease of Steve's Gay '90s Restaurant. The landmark restaurant at 5238-40 South Tacoma Way opened in 1941. The Cable Car Room was added in 1954. Steve's Gay '90s closed in 1977. Standing on the cable car, left to right, are Betty (Mrs. Robert) Drost, Mrs. Henry Nordlund, Mrs. W.J. Fahey, Mrs. S.B. Robertson, Etta (Mrs. Lee) Garrison and Maxine (Mrs. Max) Maynard. In the front, left to right, are George Smith, Wilfred J. Brown, Howard Harmon, Steve Pease and Richard Emery. (TNT 7/31/1959, pg. 15)

Cable cars; Steve's Gay '90s (Tacoma); Restaurants--Tacoma--1950-1960; Pease, Stephen O.; Drost, Betty; Garrison, Etta; Maynard, Maxine; Smith, George; Brown, Wilfred J.; Harmon, Howard S.; Emery, Richard;

The tugboat "Henrietta Foss" at dock in Tacoma. Mount Rainier and the 11th Street Bridge can be seen in the background.

Tugboats--Tacoma; Foss Launch & Tug Co. (Tacoma);

ca. 1978. Northwest Room staff, Tacoma Public Library. Mila Liwanag, Linda Hipp, Roy Ketcheson and Ethel Dobiash (l-r) posed for a group portrait in the renovated Northwest Room located in the old Carnegie Annex (Library) ca. 1978. Mr. Ketcheson and Ms. Hipp had been hired for a federally funded sorting and indexing project of old photographs, glass plates and negatives. Most of these had been taken by two well-known local photographers: Marvin D. Boland and Chapin Bowen. There were about 100,000 items including numerous wide-angle and panorama pictures of old Tacoma and early residents. (TNT 3-07-76 -article)

Tacoma Public Library (Tacoma); Public libraries--Tacoma--1970-1980; Tacoma Public Library (Tacoma)--Employees; Liwanag, Mila; Hipp, Linda; Ketcheson, Roy; Dobiash, Ethel;

ca. 1978. Northwest Room staff, Tacoma Public Library. From L-R are: Ethel Dobiash, Mila Liwanag, Linda Hipp and Roy Ketcheson. Seated is Jean Ross. They are posed before some of the more than 8000 books, pamphlets and government reports on the Pacific Northwest that are housed in the renovated Northwest Room located in the Carnegie Annex (Library). Access to the Northwest Room is through a hallway from the business, science and technology area of the Main Library's first floor. The Carnegie Annex was closed to the public in 1952 when the new Main Library was completed. Only the Fireside Room and auditorium have been used until the Northwest Room was opened. (TNT 5-23-73 -article; TNT 2-20-75-article)

Tacoma Public Library (Tacoma); Public libraries--Tacoma--1970-1980; Tacoma Public Library (Tacoma)--Employees; Dobiash, Ethel; Liwanag, Mila; Hipp, Linda; Ketcheson, Roy; Ross, Jean;

ca. 1948. Protesting the high price of beef, two women in sandwich boards entice a man to sign a petition while a third woman looks on. One sign takes a nostalgic look at steak under 50 cents a pound. A young boy wears a sign stating "I want to grow big."

Demonstrations; Pickets; Meat;

ca. 1937. In June of 1937 John L. "Lee" Kress opened his first malt shop in Tacoma at the corner of 9th and Broadway in the Bostwick Building; he already had operated two ice cream shops in Olympia. Mr. Kress' new Tacoma shop could seat 40 customers at the counter and in booths. While a boy growing up in Tacoma, his father Paul B. Kress worked as a salesman for the Henningsen Creamery Company. Lee Kress died in 1959 at the age of 45.

Kress Malt Shop (Tacoma); Restaurants--Tacoma--1930-1940;

The Century Ballroom, with rooftop sign advertising dancing to the strains of Slim Martin and his Orchestra, known as the "Maestro of Mirth and Melody." During the defense industry boom of the World War II years, the Century Ballroom was one of the hottest venues in the Northwest. All of the big bands played there, the Dorseys, Kay Kyser, the Lombardo brothers and Ted Fio Rito. The ballroom was built by developers Rocco (Mac) Manza and Emilio James (Jimmy) Zarelli in 1934. It was their second business venture, the first being "a little hamburger stand in Fife" called the Poodle Dog, now a recognized landmark. The Century Ballroom was located just north of the Dog. It was built by contractor Bonnie MacDonald and the new developers paid him back as they could. The building had 20,000 square feet of floor space and cost $28,000. It consistently lost money for the first eight years. With the boom in wartime industry, the pair struck pay dirt. The ballroom sometimes ran two shifts of dances with the second starting at 1:30a.m. for the swing shift workers. With the 1950's, big band music was out and rock was in. A fire in January of 1964 gutted the interior of what was once the Century Ballroom. The flames swept the length of the building just under the roof and then burst to heights of 20 to 30 feet and were visible for miles. Nine businesses were housed at this siteΓÇöincluding Toppers IGA Market, FujiΓÇÖs Ten Cent Store, and the Fife City Hall. Toppers IGA and Fuji's Ten Cent Store never resumed business in Fife. (TNT 3/23/1980, pg. D9)

Century Ballroom (Fife); Ballrooms--Fife--1930-1940; Musicians--Fife--1930-1940;

Mrs. Emma Smith De Voe; leader of successful campaign for equal suffrage for women in 1912, organizer of the National Council of Women Voters and its president. Mrs. DeVoe was born in Roseville, Illinois in 1848. As a young girl, she moved to Washington, Ill., with her family and studied music. Hearing a lecture by Susan B. Anthony as a girl changed her life, and winning the ballot for women became her life's work. She joined the music staff at Eureka College and married in 1880. When she and her husband came to Tacoma in 1905, she continued her battle for women's suffrage. Washington women won the vote in 1910 and she spread her work to other states until women won the vote nationally in 1920. She died seven years later at the age of 79. ("Notable Women" by Marci Whitney) (image from "History of Tacoma, v.2", Herbert Hunt)

De Voe, Emma Smith; Women's suffrage--Tacoma; Women's rights; Civil rights leaders--Tacoma;

A Garford delivery truck constructed for W.D. Tucker & Co. Groceries stands outside the Garford Truck Co. at 313-15 Puyallup Ave (now 311 Puyallup Ave.) The grocery company was located at 1113 A Street. Their truck clearly claims "We want your business." Boland B7561 (Filed as BU-13385)

Garford Truck Co. (Tacoma); W.D. Tucker & Co. Groceries (Tacoma); Trucks--1920-1930;

ca. 1950. The second Narrows Bridge nears completion. The bridge is up but there is no roadbed. Mount Rainier can be seen in the background, with Tacoma spread out on the plateau before.

Tacoma Narrows Bridge (Tacoma); Bridge construction--Tacoma--1940-1950; Progress photographs; Suspension bridges--Tacoma;

ca. 1913. This photograph of the Eggers Fish Co., located at the City Dock at the foot of South 15th St., was taken circa 1913. The company had previously been known as the American Fish Co. which had long been operated by Theodore F. Eggers. By the 1913 City Directory, its listing had been changed from American Fish to Eggers Fish, "Successor to American Fish Co." Mr. Eggers remained as president/manager. The group of people in front of the store are probably employees. The horse-drawn cart was probably used for deliveries.

Eggers Fish Co. (Tacoma); Seafood stores--Tacoma; Carts & wagons--Tacoma--1910-1920;

ca. 1913. The cornerstone for Lincoln Park High School in Tacoma was laid on Labor Day September 1, 1913, and it opened on August 31, 1914. The Patriotic Sons of America petitioned the school board to change the school's name, and in 1917 it officially became Lincoln High School. That same year the first edition of the school publication "The Lincolnian" was published; from 1914 through 1916 Stadium H.S. and Lincoln Park H.S. shared "The Tahoma" as a joint monthly journal and yearbook. Enrollment the first year was 850 students, of whom 100 were seniors.

Lincoln High School (Tacoma);

ca. 1904. The old Tacoma Tourist Hotel being rebuilt into Stadium High School, Tacoma, circa 1904. It opened as Tacoma High School in September of 1906 with 878 students and 38 teachers.

Stadium High School (Tacoma); Public schools--Tacoma--1900-1910; Tourist Hotel (Tacoma); Hotels-- Tacoma--1900-1910; Streets--Tacoma--1900-1910; Building construction--Tacoma--1900-1910;