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Freeway Dedication Site
Road-opening ceremonies, featuring a military review of America's latest Field Artillery rocketry, will be conducted on Wednesday, October 13 for the new 13.5 mile, $15 million Tacoma-Midway Freeway. Site of the ceremonies is the Auburn Interchange shown in the attached photograph. The Field Artillery units, part of the 4th Infantry Division Artillery from Fort Lewis, will assemble in the northbound lanes (marked "D" in the picture) beginning at 10:00 a.m. Visitors and spectators wishing to view the ceremonies will be permitted to park on the roadway in the areas designated "B" (southbound from Seattle) and "C" (northbound from Tacoma). Route of the military parade is shown as a series of arrows, starting at the assembly area and passing through the cloverleaf interchange from the northbound lanes onto the southbound lanes and past the reviewing stand.

TNT 10/07/1962 A1

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Volunteer Firemen for Vast Area

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Tacoma Freeway - Interstate Route No. 5 (PSH No. 1) - Pacific Avenue Interchange.
Construction of grades, drainage system and structures at the Pacific Avenue Interchange of the Tacoma Freeway. View is from the north of the right of way, vicinity of the intersection of East 30th Street and East "A" Street, looking south across the area of the proposed interchange. The East 34th Street Bridge over the C.M. & St. P. & P. RR shows in the background.
Photo by Jerry Gray

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Meridian and 224th The Last of the "Old Graham" Business District...
Bruce Larson

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Pacific Avenue Interchange

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Bulldozer

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Darling of the Dump

Darling of the Dump
Lovely Jackie Aitken is crowned Miss Garbage Pit by Miss Tacoma. Angela Nicholson, in regal ceremonies this week at the City Dump. Miss Garbage Pit (also known as Miss Saniterri Landefille) will reign over the open house at the dump Saturday, sponsored by the Tacoma Junior Chamber of Commerce, Applauding the selection are the co-chairmen of the open house, John Ettner, left, and Phil Armour. TNT 05-13-1964 C2.

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Photograph by Bob Rudsit

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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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WA State Highway Dept. Photo
by Forest and Whitmire Photography

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Laurie Nelson belts out a tune to "Trash Toad" during a performance at Roosevelt Elem. School a key element in Tacoma's solid waste/recycling program is an assembly the city puts on at various elementary schools. It's a multi-media show that includes Laurie dancing and singing and a guy dressed up in a "Trash Toad" costume.
Photo by Russ Carmack

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Must 30th Street be Saved?
Photograph by Jerry Buck

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The Nob Hill Apartments overlooking the Tacoma landfill.
News/Abe
Photo/Bill Hunter

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Will this be Pacific Avenue?

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--Tacoma Landfill Neighbors--
Neighbors of the Tacoma Landfill, Lila Hughes, left holding daughter Daisy, 2, and Winnie Prutzman, right, have filed affidavits with attorneys complaining about the foul smell and possible negative health affects to children the dump as meant to the neighborhood on Mason Street.
Photo by Dean J. Koepfler

Back of photo: Loony (L), Jay Time (C) and Little Loony talk about motivations and experiences of crippin, belonging to the 23rd Street Hill Top Crips Gang. NEWS/GILBERT BILL HUNTER PHOTO

Back of photo: Travis Tyson (R) looks at the blood stains in his car from a drive-by shooting early Saturday a.m. at South M st. and S. 36th. From left: Gino Bertucci, Zan Tyson, and Willie Warner (squatting). rushton story haley 7/21/91

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The Tacoma Spur was photographed from atop the First Interstate Plaza building while a dedication ceremony for the Locomotive Monument took place in the foreground next to the Spur.
News/Bruce Kellman

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Tacoma Spur Groundbreaking

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Workers remove a bridge at E. 30th street in Tacoma 02/28/87 to make way for the Tacoma Spur...That's the Tacoma Dome in the background...
Photo by Mike Siegel

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Aerial view of the Tacoma Spur construction with Tacoma in the background.
Photo by Russ Carmack

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This section of the downtown freeway spur will open this week. This is north bound, getting off I5.
Photo by Peter Haley