Exterior views of one story dormitories at 1101 16th St., Bremerton, Wa. Photographs ordered by MacDonald Building Co. of Tacoma.

Dormitories--Bremerton;

Interior of fishing boat hull

Fishing boats--1940-1950;

Two new International Harvester trucks used by Tacoma City Light on display on March 29, 1941.

International Harvester Co. (Tacoma); Trucks--Tacoma--1940-1950; Tacoma City Light (Tacoma);

Large expanse of manicured lawn leading to rock fence with street and fields beyond. A small pond is located in a corner of the property. Photograph was taken on July 9, 1941 but location unidentified.

Lawns; Stone walls;

This was how the 1100 Block of Broadway looked in June of 1941. The Henry Mohr Hardware Co. building (1141-43 Broadway,) built in 1910, can be seen on the right foreground with the ground floor occupied by the Karnes Shopping Mart. To the left was the Hotel Lansing at 1137-39 Broadway. The bottom floor was occupied by Overland Furniture. The building was built in 1907 and has since been demolished. Between the Lansing and the Blue Mouse was the Phillips Cafeteria at 1135 Broadway. The Blue Mouse was located at 1131-33 Broadway. It was demolished to make way for one of Tacoma's escalades connecting Pacific to Broadway.

Mohr Hardware Co. building (Tacoma); Karnes Shopping Mart (Tacoma); Hotel Lansing (Tacoma); Overland Furniture (Tacoma); Blue Mouse Movie Theatre (Tacoma); Phillips Cafeteria (Tacoma); Business districts--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Second Army Air Corps Basketball Team. Ten players in uniform, coach in Air Corps Lieutenant's uniform. They were likely a Pierce County Inter-League team.

Sports - Ball Games - Basketball Military Personnel - Army Air Corps

Stadium High School players line up as #20 attempts a free throw during practice time in 1941. Coach V.G. Lowman watches carefully as his player, with knees bent, prepares to take aim at the basket. D10709, image A, shows the result: instead of a traditional free throw, #20 jokingly made an underhand toss straight for the basket.

Stadium High School (Tacoma)--Sports; Basketball players--Tacoma--1940-1950; Basketball--Tacoma--1940-1950; Students--Tacoma--1940-1950; Lowman, V.G.;

An officer, believed to be Corporal Standing Bear, poses solemnly in front of the men of Company B, 163rd Infantry. Company B was a Montana National Guard regiment composed primarily of Sioux Indians from the Fort Peck reservation. The group was at Camp Murray for military exercises. The 163rd was inducted and mobilized into federal service on September 16, 1940. They played an integral part in the US victory in the Southwest Pacific Theater. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, they were some of the first troops sent overseas. They fought the Japanese in New Guinea and the Philippines, becoming one of the most decorated Army Divisions in the Pacific. (T. Times 12/11/1940, pg. 1)

Standing Bear; Indians of North America--Sioux tribe; Montana National Guard, 163rd Infantry, Company B--Camp Murray; Ethnic groups--Indians of North America;

Streetcar track removal on Center Street and Tacoma Avenue. After mass transit was converted from electric rail cars to busses, a process that took a mere five months, Tacoma Railway and Power was granted a four year contract to remove the now obsolete rails, some 75-80 miles of them. The city decided the company was moving too slow and took over the process themselves. The steel from the tracks was salvaged by TR&P, while the city salvaged all other construction materials. (T. Times 2/26/1941, pg. 44)

Street railroads--Tacoma--1940-1950; Street railroad tracks--Tacoma--1940-1950; Demolition--Tacoma--1940-1950; Mass transit--Tacoma--1940-1950;

ca. 1941. An unidentified Brown & Haley employee demonstrated how to cut a large piece of confection into individual portions. His audience was composed of co-eds from Clover Park High School, from left to right: Bernice Mullins, Ula (Roz) Rutherford, Marcella Herr and Jean Freckleton. Photograph was taken for, but not used in, the 1941 CPHS yearbook "The Klahowya."

Students--Lakewood--1940-1950; Clover Park High School (Lakewood); Confections; Candy; Chocolate industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Brown & Haley (Tacoma); Mullins, Bernice; Rutherford, Ula; Herr, Marcella; Freckleton, Jean;

Scenes from "Knickerbocker Holiday," the Tacoma Drama League's first production in their new Little Theatre at North 2nd and "I" Street. Thirty cast members took part in the production of the musical comedy political satire by Maxwell Anderson. The new theater had a 32 foot revolving stage and comfortable seating for 200.

Tacoma Little Theatre (Tacoma); Actors--Tacoma--1940-1950; Stages (Platforms); Stage props; Theatrical productions--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Gordon E. Tatum (kneeling on the right), the City Light safety director and a qualified American Red Cross instructor, teaches H.E. Durant (left) and J. Haines how to stabilize and bandage a fractured leg while four City Light Department employees look on. In November of 1940, thirteen light department employees learned what to do in almost any accident emergency. It was hoped that first aid training would both help prevent accidents and, failing that, quickly treat injuries that did occur. Looking on are: (l to r) Al Bell, Jack Coughlin, Guy Conine and Jack Davis. Donating his perfectly good left leg was C. Broyles. (T.Times 12/20/1940 p.13)

Tatum, Gordon E.; Durant, H.E.; Haines, J.; Bell, Al; Coughlin, Jack; Conine, Guy; Davis, Jack; Broyles, C.; First aid; Emergency medical services; Wounds & injuries; Tacoma City Light (Tacoma);

City Light employees receiving first aid lesson from Gordon Tatum. (T. Times 12/20/1940 p.13)

Tatum, Gordon E.; First aid; Emergency medical services; Wounds & injuries; Tacoma City Light (Tacoma);

Three members of the Tacoma Orthopedic Guild, No. 10 slipped out quietly on a sunny morning in November 1940 to brush up on their skating skills. The Guild was sponsoring a roller skating party at Berg's Roller Bowl Skating Rink, 8006 South Tacoma Way, on December 4th to raise money for the Tacoma Orthopedic Clinic. Skating down a Tacoma sidewalk are: (order not known) Lotys (Mrs. A.W.) Taylor, Helen (Mrs. J. Arthur) Thompson, and Dorothy (Mrs. Lawrence) Ghilarducci. (T. Times 11/30/1940 p.4)

Taylor, Lotys; Thompson, Helen; Ghilarducci, Dorothy; Tacoma Orthopedic Association (Tacoma); Roller skating--Tacoma--1940-1950; Clubwomen--Tacoma--1940-1950;

In December of 1940, Alvin Thorson was one of 140 men learning to operate welding machines in the basement of Hawthorne School, at the foot of McKinley Hill. The welding machines were kept busy 24 hours a day as men trained to become welders for the war effort at the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Co. The young Puyallup mechanic is wearing a welder's mask and holding the "stinger" of the welding machine. (T. Times 12/9/1940, pg. 1)

Thorson, Alvin; Welding; Hawthorne School (Tacoma); Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. (Tacoma); World War, 1939-1945--Economic & industrial aspects--Tacoma;

Wrecked semi-truck at 19th and Pacific Avenue. Goodyear Tire sign and gas pumps of Shaub - Ellison Company in background. The 25-ton truck had been involved in a fatal car-truck head-on collision at 19th & Pacific on late Friday evening, August 30, 1940. It had skidded to the north entrance of Shaub-Ellison Co., remained upright, and landed on the sidewalk. Killed was the Packard coupe driver, 35-year-old Virgil Jones, a Tacoma boilermaker with Seattle-Tacoma Shipyards. Injured were his three passengers as well as the truck driver, M.L. Burr and Mr. Burr's passenger. Virgil Jones was the city's 11th death in 1940. Photograph taken for the United Pacific Insurance Co. (T.Times 8-31-1940, p. 1+, article-only)

Traffic accidents--Tacoma--1940-1950; Trucks--Tacoma--1940-1950; Portland-Seattle Auto Freight, Inc. (Seattle); Shaub-Ellison Co. (Tacoma); Death--Tacoma;

Stoplight and railroad crossing light at 17th Street So. and Pacific Avenue as photographed on July 24, 1940. Hotel Savoy (1511-41 Pacific) and Schoenfeld's building (1423 Pacific) in background.

Traffic signs & signals--Tacoma--1940-1950; Railroad crossings--Tacoma--1940-1950; Hotel Savoy (Tacoma); L. Schoenfeld & Sons (Tacoma);

In April of 1941, Fuel Oil Service Corp. celebrated their 10th anniversary by moving to their new business location, 816 A St. The company that specialized in fuel oils was completely Tacoma owned and operated. It was founded by Mark Dolliver and Roger Stewart. The company was the local distributor for Standard Burner Oil and had a fleet of five delivery trucks, the most modern in the west. Picture in front of their new location are, left to right, A.W. Taylor (District Mgr.), Roger Stewart (Sec.), Rena Skreen (bookkeeper), Robert Jackson (salesman), Mark C. Dolliver (president), Fred Grimm, William Baker, Earl Tillman and Roy Boblet (drivers.) (T. Times 4/1/1941, pg 4)

Trucks--Tacoma--1940-1950; Fuel Oil Service (Tacoma);

A heavy-duty flatbed truck with a large Wendell Willkie sign rolls slowly down Commerce Street prior to Election Day, 1940. The sign questions FDR's decision to seek a third term, comparing him to Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini. The Republicans were having a rally at the Jason Lee Auditorium; trucks were on parade to urge voters to turn out and listen to the party message. The Democrats countered with rallies and parades of their own: they also traveled through residential and downtown streets on the final drive for election votes. The rain and wind that evening did not keep party members away; an estimated 1500 attended the two rallies. TPL-1975 (T. Times 11-1-40, p. 1, T. Times 11-2-40, p. 12) ALBUM 2.

Trucks--Tacoma--1940-1950; Signs (Notices); Presidential elections--Tacoma--1940-1950;

The wet streets of downtown Tacoma did not hinder the procession of the Willkie-McNary campaign trucks prior to Election Day in November of 1940. The trucks were photographed in front of the Roxy (Pantages) Theater as loudspeakers and a large sign urged voters to attend a rally of Republicans at the Jason Lee Auditorium. Arthur Langlie, gubernatorial candidate, and Stephen Chadwick, candidate for the U.S. Senate, were scheduled to speak at the gathering. The Democrats chose the same evening for their parade and rally. Candidates Mon Wallgren (for senator), C.C. Dill (for governor) and John Coffee (re-election to Congress) spoke at the Lincoln High School Democratic rally. Franklin Roosevelt carried the presidential election, beginning his third term with a popular vote of 54.7 % and an electoral landslide of 84.6%. Republican Arthur Langlie was elected governor. ALBUM 2. (T.Times, 11-1-40, p. 1, T. Times 11-2-40, p. 12)

Trucks--Tacoma--1940-1950; Signs (Notices); Presidential elections--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Two police officers stand by Patrol Car Number 12 along curb of Pacific Avenue south of 19th Street, Union Depot in background. Ordered by United Pacific Insurance Company

Union Station (Tacoma); Police--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Two couples pose at the University Union Club Sadie Hawkins Dance on March 15, 1941. The men are dressed in formal attire, but the women are definitely attired Dogpatch style. The pairs are seated on a hay bale and tin cups and cans have taken the places of drink glasses for the evening. Sadie Hawkins Day, usually celebrated in November, was the invention of Al Capp in his Li'l Abner comic strip. It was the day, decades before women's liberation, when women could ask out the man of their dreams. By the 1930's, it was sweeping the nation. The schedule for the evening included dancing from 9:30- 1, followed by a supper.

University Union Club of Tacoma (Tacoma); Dance parties--Tacoma--1940-1950;

ca. 1940. Christmas banquet, National Guard. Also labelled last reunion of non commissioned officers held at the Grey Goose.

Washington National Guard (Tacoma);

National Guard parading in groups on playground across from Armory. They are marching steadily three abreast. (T. Times.)

Washington National Guard (Tacoma); Marching--Tacoma--1940-1950;

ca. 1940. Anniversary banquet Company E 116th Medics, National Guard. The company poses around a large cake with the Red Cross emblem.

Washington National Guard, Company E, 116th Medics (Tacoma); Banquets--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Marion Roseann Burns, now Monroe, shows off her wedding ring to a group of men that possibly includes her husband, Thomas Harbine Monroe, and his groomsmen. Best man for the wedding was A.E. Betz, Jr. Ushers were Bernard D. Elliott, Robert Martin, Manson Backus II and John C. Bardsley, Jr. The couple was married November 24, 1940 at the Christ Episcopal Church in Tacoma. (T. Times 11/25/1940, pg. 7)

Weddings--Tacoma--1940-1950; Burns, Marion Roseann; Wedding costume--1940-1950;

Backyard of Western Auto Supply in South Tacoma. In 1941, there were two Western Auto Supply stores in Tacoma. One was located at 713-17 Pacific Ave and one at 5221 South Tacoma Way. William T. McCallum was the manager of the South Tacoma Way store.

Western Auto Supply Co. (Tacoma); Automobile equipment & supplies stores--Tacoma;

A crowd views exhibits in one of the many halls at the 1940 Puyallup Fair. In the background are advertising posters by Bone Dry Shoes.

Western Washington Fair (Puyallup); Fairs--Puyallup--1940-1950; Crowds;

On Tacoma Day, September 18,1940, at the Western Washington Fair in Puyallup, a large crowd has gathered in the midway area.

Western Washington Fair (Puyallup); Fairs--Puyallup--1940-1950; Crowds; Amusement rides--Puyallup--1940-1950;

Crowds filled the midway on September 18th for Tacoma Day at the 1940 Puyallup Fair. While some fairgoers waited their turn to ride the swings or the "Pretzel," others took a chance at one of the games of luck or skill. The 41st annual Western Washington Fair in Puyallup had a midway of 10 acres, crowded with every type of ride, side show and carnival attraction. The fair ran from September 16-22 but the highlight for most Tacomans was Wednesday, September 18th, when 42,500 of them passed through the gates.

Western Washington Fair (Puyallup); Fairs--Puyallup--1940-1950; Crowds; Amusement rides--Puyallup--1940-1950;