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ca. 1925. Artist's rendering of design that would later become the Winthrop Hotel, 773 Broadway, designed by architect W.L. Stoddard and associate architect Roland E. Borhek. The hotel opened in May of 1925. The image appears to be reversed, since "New Tacoma Hotel" is printed backwards near the bottom of the drawing. (filed with Argentum)


Hotel Winthrop (Tacoma);

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Elegant, but simple, interior of the Pacific First Federal Savings & Loan Association building. Elaborate grill work and Art Deco-style ceiling light fixtures. Free-standing panels display house plans.


Banks--Tacoma--1930-1940; Pacific First Federal Savings & Loan Association (Tacoma);

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ca. 1936. Interior of Pacific First Federal Savings and Loan, circa 1936, showing desks and business equipment behind tellers' counter. For Mr. Goff. (Argentum)


Banks--Tacoma--1930-1940; Pacific First Federal Savings & Loan Association (Tacoma);

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ca. 1936. Restaurant interior. Small, downtown lunch counter, coffee shop with booths and refrigerated display case. Women in kitchen and floral bouquets on counter. For Mr. Goff.


Restaurants--Tacoma--1930-1940

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ca. 1936. Opening of new, small restaurant with counter and tables. Space in older building with elaborate wood and leaded glass cabinetry, tin ceiling, and arcaded windows with Corinthian columns. Large, uniformed staff standing at designated stations. Probably Feeney's Cafe. Feeney's was owned by Mrs. Jessie Feeney, Mrs. Viola Hinz and Irving Ball.


Feeney's Cafe (Tacoma); Restaurants--Tacoma--1930-1940; Restaurant workers--Tacoma--1930-1940;

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ca. 1935. Two Diamond T trucks loaded with bales of hay parked in front of Davis Motor Truck Company.


Davis Motor Truck Company (Tacoma); Diamond T trucks;

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ca. 1935. Davis Motor Truck Company with Diamond T truck parked out front.


Davis Motor Truck Company (Tacoma); Diamond T trucks;

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ca. 1935. Two unidentified men standing beside a Diamond T truck outside Davis Motor Truck Company. (filed with Argentum)


Davis Motor Truck Company (Tacoma); Diamond T trucks;

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ca. 1935. Exterior view of Winthrop Hotel from the southwest. Building by W.E. Stoddard and Roland Borhek, Associated Architects, 1924. (filed with Argentum)


Hotel Winthrop (Tacoma); Hotels--Tacoma--1930-1940;

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ca. 1936. Exterior of Associated Oil service station. Station located at Sixth & Sprague, circa 1936. One island, three pumps, "Flying A" emblem. Automobile on lube rack. For Miller & Miller Advertising. (WSHS)


Automobile service stations--Tacoma--1930-1940; Associated Oil Service Stations (Tacoma); Gasoline pumps--Tacoma--1930-1940;

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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.

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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.

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ca. 1934. "Dine and Dance group at Rausch's Road House". Group of men and women in front of log building with sign reading " Jay's Log Cabin" on the roof ridge. (filed with Argentum)


Rausch's Roadhouse; Jay's Log Cabin; Nightclubs--1930-1940;

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ca. 1934. Photograph is described in Richards' notes as "group at Rausch's Road House." However, associated pictures also show a sign on the building proclaiming that it is "Jay's Log Cabin, Dine & Dance." A group of people is seated in front of the log cabin. Group includes a young couple to the left of the seated row dressed alike in slacks, white shirts and sweaters and a woman in the standing row wearing a "Andre's Market" brown paper bag as a hat.


Rausch's Roadhouse; Jay's Log Cabin; Nightclubs--1930-1940;

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ca. 1934. Photograph identified in Richards' log book as "group at Rausch's Road House." Four people standing by door of log building with sign reading " Jay's Log Cabin, Dine & Dance" on the roof ridge and extending from the side of the structure. The two couples outside are possibly the proprieters. One man is dressed in a long apron, as if he has been or is planning to cook. The log cabin is located in what appears to be a rural location. For a closer view of these individuals in a group shot, see image #2.


Rausch's Roadhouse; Jay's Log Cabin; Nightclubs--1930-1940;

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ca. 1932. Roberts Bros.Grocers Number 4 delivery truck accident, circa 1932. Front end sitting by front porch of house with rear end on roadway above. (filed with Argentum)


Roberts Bros. Grocery (Tacoma); Trucks--Tacoma--1930-1940; Traffic accidents--Tacoma--1930-1940;

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ca. 1932. Roberts Bros. Grocers delivery truck Number 4 accident, circa 1932. Front of vehicle hanging several feet over a stone wall and resting on vine-covered front porch of a house. (filed with Argentum)


Roberts Bros. Grocery (Tacoma); Trucks--Tacoma--1930-1940; Traffic accidents--Tacoma--1930-1940;

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ca. 1932. Roberts Bros. Grocers delivery truck number 4 resting in a gulch between two houses, circa 1932. Porch railing of one house hangs from post. (filed with Argentum)


Roberts Bros. Grocery (Tacoma); Trucks--Tacoma--1930-1940; Traffic accidents--Tacoma--1930-1940;

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This photograph from March 1932 shows four unidentified empoyees in one of the Piggly Wiggly grocery stores in Puyallup. This store was under the management of Mr. Pinckney. Going through a wooden turn-style, a shopper could find bargains such as Max-i-mum coffee at 37cents per lb. and apples at 63 cents a box.


Grocery stores--Puyallup--1930-1940; Piggly Wiggly (Puyallup);

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Airway Coffee display at Piggly Wiggly store, Puyallup. Model of airplane hanger with four airplanes, bags of coffee on left. Sign above reads "Serve Yourself and Save." (filed with Argentum)


Grocery stores--Puyallup--1930-1940; Piggly Wiggly (Puyallup); Coffee--Puyallup;

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ca. 1932. Sanitary Meat Market at the Sanitary Public Market, 1108 Market St. Three butchers behind glass and marble meat counter in this circa 1932 photograph. (filed with Argentum)


Butcher shops--Tacoma--1930-1940; Meat; Showcases; Merchandise displays--Tacoma--1930-1940; Sanitary Meat Market (Tacoma);

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ca. 1935. Griffin Fuel Company. Man pulling lever on coal chute to release coal into truck. These are automatic gravity bunkers filled with coal. The company was begun by Fred L. Griffin Sr. in 1889 as a horse drawn delivery company. It was called Griffin Transfer in the early days. By 1904, they moved to Commerce Street and concentrate solely on fuel deliveries. (T. Times 12/10/1935, pg. 5)


Griffin Fuel Co. (Tacoma); Trucks--Tacoma--1930-1940; Fuel--Tacoma--1930-1940; Fuel trade--Tacoma--1930-1940;

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ca. 1935. Griffin Fuel Company. Three men loading oil into tank trucks. Railroad tank cars in background behind covered fuel transfer structure. Griffin was celebrating its 46th year anniversary. They had laid in the largest fuel order in Tacoma history for area residents to purchase this winter.


Griffin Fuel Co. (Tacoma); Trucks--Tacoma--1930-1940; Fuel--Tacoma--1930-1940; Fuel trade--Tacoma--1930-1940; Fuel tanks; Railroad cars--Tacoma--1930-1940;

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ca. 1935. Griffin Fuel Company. Two men loading wood onto truck in wood storage yard. In the background, Griffin's stock of over 7,000 cords of wood can be seen. The company was celebrating its 46th year in business and the gradual recovery from the Depression. The company began business in 1889 as a horse drawn moving company for any kind of commodities. By 1904, Griffin Fuel had moved to this location and focused in on the fuel business. In 1935, they delivered and sold fuel in the forms of oil, coal, wood and sawdust. (T. Times 12/10/1935, pg. 5)


Griffin Fuel Co. (Tacoma); Trucks--Tacoma--1930-1940; Fuel--Tacoma--1930-1940; Fuel trade--Tacoma--1930-1940; Fuelwood;

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ca. 1935. Griffin Fuel Company. Man above cab with tool loading Griffin Fuel Company truck inside shed. It appears that the man is loading the truck with sawdust, one of the forms of fuel offered by the 46 year old company.


Griffin Fuel Co. (Tacoma); Trucks--Tacoma--1930-1940; Fuel--Tacoma--1930-1940; Fuel trade--Tacoma--1930-1940;

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ca. 1935. Griffin Fuel Company, founded in 1889. Two men beside truck in driveway. Snoqualmie Falls Power Company Transfer House, 250 So. 19th St., in background. Griffin Fuel was celebrating its 46th anniversary.


Griffin Fuel Co. (Tacoma); Fuel--Tacoma--1930-1940; Fuel trade--Tacoma--1930-1940; Trucks--Tacoma--1930-1940; Snoqualmie Falls Power Co. Transfer House (Tacoma);

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ca. 1935. Shell Burner Oil Truck from J.P. Myers and Company and C.S. Barlow and Sons parked in front of Myers Company Office at 1912 Wilkeson. The background around the truck has been whited out to display the truck more effectively for advertising purposes. (WSHS)


J.P. Myers & Co. (Tacoma); C.S. Barlow & Sons, Inc. (Tacoma); Trucks; Fuel;

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ca. 1933. Some "Good Fellows" gaze out into the night form the glass store front of the "Happy Days Here Again" Beer Parlour. Night view of neon-clad exterior of the drinking establishment. Caption: "Where Good Fellows Gather." The tavern was owned by Ido Innocenti and managed by Albert D. Innocenti. Beneath the overflowing stein on the big neon sign, it is stated that the tavern has both "Ladies" and "Gents" service and also serves "Dutch Lunch."


Happy Days Here Again (Tacoma); Bars--Tacoma--1930-1940; Eating & drinking facilities--Tacoma--1930-1940; Innocenti, Albert--Homes & haunts;

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ca. 1933. Interior of the "Happy Days Here Again" Beer Parlour. This is the "Gentleman's Service," a specific area of the bar where only men were admitted. The men would then be free to drink, smoke and make off color remarks and jokes without offending the ladies. Customers pose with one foot on the railing, while white coated bartenders line up behind the bar. Happy Days offered both gents and Ladies service. The tavern was managed by Albert D. Innocenti.


Happy Days Here Again (Tacoma); Bars--Tacoma--1930-1940; Eating & drinking facilities--Tacoma--1930-1940; Innocenti, Albert--Homes & haunts;

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ca. 1933. Interior view of the "Happy Days Here Again" beer parlour. All the gents lift a glass to the photographer. This is the "gentlemen's service," a particular area where only men were admitted. White aproned bartenders stand behind the counter. The walls are adorned with what appear to be prints of women. As was proper in this more formal time, most of the men are wearing hats. The male only atmosphere allowed the men to drink, smoke and joke more freely. The glass topped cases in the foreground of the picture contain boxes of cigars available for purchase.


Happy Days Here Again (Tacoma); Bars--Tacoma--1930-1940; Eating & drinking facilities--Tacoma--1930-1940; Innocenti, Albert--Homes & haunts;

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