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Wrist Wrestling

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Equal Rights Amendment
Jul 2 1982
Photograph by Bruce A. Kellman

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Indians and Wash -- Fishing

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Miss Salmon Berry Princess

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The city of Tacoma has $2.8 million worth of machinery capable of turning garbage into small cubes suitable for burning. But the city is giving up hopes of finding an industrial purchaser of the cubes and is now looking for a way to use them itself.
Jerry Buck

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Asian Day - Monk Dance
Yi Yi Young

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Hang Sou, a Hmong refugee, stands in line for his final medical exam at a Thailand transit camp in the Non Fiction Television documentary "Becoming American", which will be televised over the Public Broadcasting Service Friday, June 4 at 9 p.m. (Check local listings.) The documentary by Ken Levine and Ivory Waterworth Levine follows Hang Sou and his family from a refugee camp in northern Thailand to their new home in Seattle, WA.

A spill from U.S. Oil and Refining Co. on the Blair Waterway resulted in oil swirling around Sea-Tac Alaska Shipbuilding Corp. drydock where a U.S. Coast Guard vessel was being worked on. The oil spill also contaminated part of Commencement Bay and was cleaned up by the U.S. Coast Guard. Photo by staff member Warren Anderson.

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Warren Anderson/Photo

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--House-Moving: "On-Abridged" Version-- Motorists on Interstate-5 near Tacoma had an unusual view Monday as this four-plex passed above them on a freeway overpass. The building was being moved from Tacoma's Hawthorne district, where a new sports-convention center will be built, to a vacant lot a few blocks up the street. Tacoma, WA, June 2, 1981
Freeway drivers gawked as an apartment trundled by. Tacoma, WA, April 17, 1983

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ASARCO

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Indians, Puyallup

Employees of the Puyallup tribe’s fish hatchery released young trout into a tributary of the Puyallup river leading the trout to the Puget Sound and eventually the Pacific Ocean. The trout were around a year old and had been raised by the Puyallup Tribe at the tribal hatchery on Pioneer Way West. The Puyallup Tribe obtained the trout from the Quinault Tribe and the fish are the Quinault River steelhead. Photo by Tribune staff member Bob Rudsit.

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Indians, Puyallup

Employees of the Puyallup tribe’s fish hatchery released young trout into a tributary of the Puyallup river leading the trout to the Puget Sound and eventually the Pacific Ocean. The trout were around a year old and had been raised by the Puyallup Tribe at the tribal hatchery on Pioneer Way West. The Puyallup Tribe obtained the trout from the Quinault Tribe and the fish are the Quinault River steelhead. Photo by Tribune staff member Bob Rudsit.

This residence was one of the homes moved to make way for building the sports convention center in the Hawthorne neighborhood. Hunsaker’s House Movers of Silverdale placed the home on a barge. It will travel to a new neighborhood called Gorst in Bremerton and be resold. Photo by staff member Russ Carmack.

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Some Hawthorne homes were moved - this one by sea.

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Hispanic Americans

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--Old Culture, New Life--
Kathy Laufasa and Tupou Mamaea, both students at Chief Sealth High School, practice Polynesian dance steps. The Samoans are among increasing numbers of Pacific Rim natives who have emigrated to the United States.

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Equal Rights Amendment

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--Nuclear Project no. 2--
The image of the No. 2 nuclear project of the Washington Public Power Supply System at Hanford is reflected on the surface of an adjoining spray pond, one of two comprising a back-up safety cooling system. Each pond contains 7 1/2-million gallons of water. Pillars on the circular structure in the foreground hold the nozzles to spray water into the air which would be cooled by evaporation as it falls back into the pond.
Official Photo
Washington Public Power Supply System

Back of photo: Drug Abuse + Crime May 5 1981

Back of photo: Boy's Club- Pyle, Boy's Club of Tacoma Apr 26 1981

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Erick Johnson's home was moved to the South End.
Sign:
I will not Sell My Property To The City Or Mayor Parker.
No Parking Lot in My Front Yard.

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Cubans
Photograph by Bob Rudsit

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Demonstrations

Two protestors stand in front of the Playtime Rex Theater in Tacoma's Eastside neighborhood. The original Rex Theater opened in 1919, and closed its doors in 1958. In 1980, adult theater corporation Playtime Cinemas reopened the location as the Playtime Rex Theater for live performances and adult movie showings. In the photograph, the theater sign reads, "Playtime Rex: Annete Haven In Person Tonight." The protestors pose underneath the marquee, holding picket signs that read, "Citizens Against Porn" on the left, and "Get Filth Out of Our Neighborhood," "Unless Ye Repent So Ye Also Shall Perish," held by the person on the right.

Rex Theater Article from cinematreasures.org.