Hogan's Fine Foods store exterior at night with active neon signage. Sign in window reads "open every Sunday 11am till 9pm." There are two registers, a meat counter and produce section visible.

Hogan's Fine Foods store exterior at night with active neon signage. Sign in window reads "open every Sunday 11am till 9pm." There are two registers, a meat counter and produce section visible.

Laborers building a boat frame.

Distant view of laborers on a shipyard. Spiked exterior wall can be seen on the left with mountains faintly in the distance.

Dockside shipyard materials with an ad for Drifted Snow "Home Perfected" Flour on the side of a building. There also appears to be some industrial architecture from the Port of Tacoma in the distance.

"Candid shots of Samuel Crippen (Tacoma Café)

"Extra pictures of crane wreck on Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation."

View of the waterfront to Younglove Grocery Co. Industrial buildings on the Port of Tacoma can be seen in the distance.

Turner Towing company façade with four vehicles, two antiquated tow trucks and a mechanic walking out from the garage area.

Interior of El Rancho Grocery Store, whose mascot appears to be an Aladdin inspired character wearing a turban on a flying carpet. The Store's slogan is "There is Magic in Savings." There is Van De Kamp's bakery display and a store directory in the back.

Damaged photo of the Pacific Boat Building Company fire with onlookers outside and firemen entering the building on a ladder.

Owner of the Sprouse Rite store in Lakewood, WA.

Baker products at a market displaying various brands from the mid-fifties.

Grocery display of the "World's Largest Fig Bar."

Produce display for the Washington State Fruit Commission at a grocery store with scales and low level frozen food coolers.

Boats at Northern Pacific dock, Tacoma, Washington Territory, circa 1885. The owners of the warehouse in the center of photograph were not identified. The large building to the far left is the Blackwell Hotel, considered New Tacoma's first hotel. Built by the Northern Pacific Railroad, it opened on January 1, 1874 and closed in 1884. It was razed during the summer of 1901. KING-002, TPL-1095

ca. 1908. Bicycle shop and Storage business. The bicycle shop is probably the Amzie D. Browning Bicycle & General Repairing business. The bicycle shop has an advertisment painted on it for the Tacoma Baking Co. Print is somewhat out of focus.

ca. 1910. Clown with top hat on unicycle. Street is paved with brick. Building to rear of clown has signs for "Baldwin Real Estate" and a large banner for a clothing sale starting March 31st.

ca. 1908. A group of men, women and children crowd into a butcher shop - probably in South Tacoma. Various cuts of meat are on display including a whole smoked pig. Four butchers, in white aprons, are standing behind the counter.

ca. 1908. Man standing next to Tacoma Steam Laundry wagon piled high with bags of laundry.

Hill Hardware Co. wagon & driver at east end of Wagon Bridge, Steilacoom Lake. Driver is C. L. Whitney. In 1908 the Hill Hardware Co. was at 2317-2319 Pacific Ave.

ca. 1908. Tacoma Steam Laundry wagon and driver. The wagon is piled full of bags of laundry. Even the driver's seat is packed, leaving no room for him to sit. From copy negative. Similar to BROWNING-073.

Back of Photo:
Perry Smith (eats his own)

Rudsit photo

Totem Market, 25th and Alder. Apple and flour window display for apple dumplings. Market with glass block framing plate glass windows. Ordered by H.L. Moreman, for Washington State Apple Advertising Commission. Tacoma Food Stores, in conjunction with Sperry Milling Co., were offering special prizes for the solving of "Applegrams," special anagrams. Winners would receive a book on apples and a NO. 5 bag of "Gold Medal" flour. (filed with Argentum)

Grocery stores--Tacoma--1930-1940; Fruit; Merchandise displays--Tacoma--1930-1940; Apples--Tacoma; Advertising--Tacoma--1930-1940;

ca. 1938. Highway Truck Equipment Company; interior of machine shop. Phillip Bechtholt and his brother John (L-R) stand behind a flatbed trailer for a large truck. The company was owned by John P. Bechtholt and was listed in the 1938 City Directory as an auto wrecking company. They were located at 3224 South Tacoma Way. It is possible that the company also rebuilt wrecked trucks, however their advertisement in the 9/30/1938 Tacoma Times identified them as manufacturers of hoists and bodies for dump trucks, trailers of all types, alterations of trucks and brake installations.

Highway Truck Co. (Tacoma); Trucks--Tacoma--1930-1940; Bechtholt, Phillip; Bechtholt, John;

ca. 1939. The view down Pacific Ave from the intersection of around 17th Street, after the streetcar tracks were removed and street was repaved. This is almost the same exact same view as A7875 image 1 after the paving was complete. Most prominent are the Hotel Lewis, on the left, at 1522 Pacific Ave and Hotel Croft, on the right, at 1519 Pacific Ave. The Hotel Croft was owned by Lee Croft who would later become Pierce County Sheriff. Also on the right hand side can be seen Schoenfelds on Pacific at 15th and the Puget Sound Bank building at 1119 Pacific Ave. (original photograph was unnumbered, number was assigned for cataloging purposes)

Hotel Lewis (Tacoma); Hotel Croft (Tacoma); Commercial streets--Tacoma--1930-1940;

ca. 1938. Langendorf Bakery exterior with seven trucks in front. Langendorf opened their new bakery at this location, 756-58 Fawcett Ave., in June of 1938. The structure was formerly a garage and the site of Manley Motor Co. In 1954, the bakery built a new modern plant at 2202 So. 38th St. (filed with Argentum)

Langendorf United Bakeries (Tacoma); Bakeries--Tacoma--1930-1940;

Model Bakery trucks photographed for International Harvester in February of 1939. The delivery trucks have signs advertising the bakery's Star Loaf bread. (filed with Argentum)

Model Bakery (Tacoma)--Associated objects; Trucks--Tacoma--1930-1940;

Peoples Department Store, display of mattresses and bed springs. Area rugs are hung from racks on the level above. A sign announces bargains on used furniture.

Peoples (Tacoma); Department stores--Tacoma;

ca. 1938. "Red Pig." Scenes taken under new management in 1938. New manager Bernice Fox is fixing two cups of coffee behind counter. The counter is empty, a stark contrast to the packed area pictured in A7529-1 just a few minutes before. The Red Pig restaurant was located on busy Tacoma-Seattle Highway (Highway 99) just beyond Fife. (T. Times 10/26/1938, pg. 7) (filed with Argentum)

Red Pig Restaurant (Fife); Restaurants--Fife--1930-1940; Restaurant workers; Fox, Bernice;