The "Martiann" was built as a Higgins landing craft by the Western Boat Building Co. in Tacoma. When the Army cancelled the contract in 1945, the Petrich family donated the craft to Madigan hospital for the summer. She was used for a series of cruises, fishing and picnic trips for the Madigan patients. On her maiden voyage, she carried ten wounded soldiers on a cruise around the sound, stopping at Burton for a picnic lunch. (T.Times, 6/25/1945) TPL-10384

Commencement Bay (Wash.); Bays; Western Boat Building Co. (Tacoma); Boat & ship industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Waterfronts--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Tacoma Times Carriers were honored at a fried chicken banquet, 175 boys and girls received recognition for their outstanding work on their routes. The banquet featured novelty acts and special performances for the carriers. View of performance by three men dressed as women (T. Times, 3/27/45, p. 5).

Cross dressing--Tacoma; Theatrical productions--Tacoma; Banquets--Tacoma; Tacoma Times Publishing Co. (Tacoma); Newspaper carriers--Tacoma--1940-1950;

An unidentified Red Cross volunteer is shown pinning a daffodil on the hospital gown of a wounded soldier in this photograph from March, 1945. The Red Cross delivered over 50,000 daffodils to Madigan General Hospital, McCord Field Station Hospital, Veterans' Hospital at American Lake, The Navy Infirmary, Coast Guard Infirmary and the Old Soldiers' Home at Orting. The Puyallup Valley Daffodil Festival, Inc. provided all the flowers by contacting bulb growers throughout the valley. (TNT 3/25/45, p. 1). TPL-10383

Daffodils--Tacoma; Community service--Tacoma--1940-1950; Sick persons; Flower pots; American Red Cross Pierce County Chapter (Tacoma);

Western Boat Building Co. was owned and operated by the Petrich family. They were working on government and commercial contracts. View of ship's open decks, with rigging equipment visible.

Decks (Ships); Ship equipment & rigging; Boat & ship industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Western Boat Building Co. (Tacoma);

Commander Jack Dempsey, the former heavyweight champion of the world, returned from Okinawa, where he was stationed with the Coast Guard, to aid in the "Mighty 7th" war bond campaign. While in Tacoma, he was guest referee for a match held at the Tacoma Armory on the night of June 5, 1945. The event sold over $1.5 million in war bonds. Standing with Commander Dempsey are (L-R) Homer Amundsen of Amundsen Gym, Robert (Buster) Arnestad, Tommy Passmore, and a unidentified young man. (T.Times, 5/29/1945, p. 7) (Additional information supplied by a reader) TPL-9962

Dempsey, Jack, 1895-1983; Boxers (Sports); World War, 1939-1945--Economic & industrial aspects--Tacoma; War bonds & funds--Tacoma--1940-1950; Amundsen, Homer; Arnestad, Robert; Passmore, Tommy;

The Steak House and No. End Tavern, exterior.

Diners (Restaurants)--Tacoma; Steak House (Tacoma); Restaurants--Tacoma;

The Beck Family. The grandparents and their adult children pose indoors in front of the fireplace. The interior view shows an oval mirror and floral draperies..

Families--Tacoma--1940-1950; Mothers & children--1940-1950;

Fire. A fire destroyed the home at 4522 North 17th Street May 20, 1945. Robert Stevens died in the fire. Detective A.R. Dykeman and Fire Inspector Robbie Larson attempt to determine the exact cause of the blaze by examining the materials that remain. The charred interior of the kitchen along with a wood cook stove, waterheater, frying pan and a table with a cup on it are shown. (T.Times, 5/21/1945, p.l)

Fires--Tacoma--1940-1950; Dykeman, A.R.; Larson, Robbie; Stevens, Robert;

War Finance send off party for the "Fanney". L-R, Mrs. K.S. Thordarson, Vice Counsul K.S. Thordarson, Captain Ingar Einarsson and Mrs. Sveinsina Berg hold the Icelandic flag ready for raising aboard the "Fanney". The purse seiner is bound for Iceland after traveling down the west coast of North America, through the canal, north to New York and on to Reykjavik. Captain Ingar Einarsson will be the boat's commander. (T.Times, 10/29/1945), (TNT, 6/1945)

Fishing boats--Tacoma--1940-1950; Pacific Boat Building Co. (Tacoma); Boat & ship industry--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Tacoma Boat, the "Fanney" on Commencement Bay with tugboat, "Foss No.8". This purse seiner was built by Pacific Boat Building Company for the Republic of Iceland. She was launched June 26, 1945, and is expected to be completed by July 15 - August 1, 1945. (T.Times, 6/27/1945, p.9)

Fishing boats--Tacoma--1940-1950; Tugboats--Tacoma--1940-1950; Piers & wharves--Tacoma;

War Finance send off party for the "Fanney". The crew of the "Fanney" was feted to a farewell celebration at Point Defiance August 12, 1945. The celebration also featured a salmon derby. These four happy entrants in the derby hold their catches while standing on the dock. (T.Times, 10/17/1945)

Fishing; Salmon; Pacific Boat Building Co. (Tacoma); Fishing boats--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Tacoma Boatbuilding Co. was started in 1936 by H. Dahl and A. Strom. The partners wanted to build fishing vessels for North Pacific fishermen. In 1941 they signed their first contract to build government boats and moved into a larger, newly expanded plant at the head of the City Waterway. View of YP 625, a Navy patrol craft. TPL-8893

Government vessels--Tacoma; Boat & ship industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Tacoma Boat Building Co., Inc. (Tacoma);

Ed Griffin family. Ed with brother, Fredric Griffin (on the right). The gentleman in the middle is not identified. They are seated on a patio. Ed Griffin was in business with his father and brother at the Griffin Fuel Company until Fred L. Griffin's death in 1931. Fredric Griffin became manager of Griffin Fuel in Seattle. (TNT, 3/9/1955)

Griffin, Edwin L., 1908-1955--Family; Griffin, Frederic P.;

Tacoma General Hospital annual pictures. Four men and one woman in their uniforms. The woman is wearing a special cap with a dark stripe near the edge. She holds hands with one of the men.

Group portraits--1940-1950; Hospitals--Tacoma--1940-1950; Tacoma General Hospital (Tacoma); Medical personnel;

Woodbrook Hunt Club. The annual Gymkhana event was held May 27, 1945 at Wrightacres on Clover Creek south of Tacoma. The nine events listed on the program included both English and Western styles. This woman sitting astride her horse on an English sadle wears a white riding jacket and black pants, holding a crop in her hand. (T.Times, 5/23/1945, p.6)

Horseback riding--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Scottish Rite Ball. Guys and gals dance to the music of Bob Dickinson's Orchestra at the Crystal Ball Room in the Hotel Winthrop. Some of the men are in uniform. The women wear floor-length gowns and corsages. Part of the stage and the orchestra can be seen in the background.

Hotel Winthrop (Tacoma); Group portraits--1940-1950; Balls (Parties)--Tacoma--1940-1950; Scottish Rite (Tacoma);

St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company. Several railroad carsloaded with logs are standing in the yard at the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company. The City of Tacoma can be seen in the background. Since the company had their own rail spur they could deliver the logs to whatever part of the plant they needed or they could even dump them into the waterway which was nearby.

Lumber industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. (Tacoma);

Crowd for radio personality Tom Breneman's "Breakfast in Hollywood Show" at Tacoma's Roxy (Pantages) Theater on opening night, August 20, 1946. Roxy Theater neon sign and marquee are very prominent in background. The popular radio program has been transferred to the big screen starring Mr. Breneman, Bonita Granville, singer Andy Russell, Zasu Pitts, Hedda Hopper, and Spike Jones & his City Slickers. Tacomans of all ages, some in the Armed Forces, queue up beneath the marquee. KJR radio would re-broadcast Mr. Breneman's radio program that same night at the theater. Director Harold Shuster's film provided an extra attraction for families of those involved in the film: nearly 100 extras and minor characters, some of whom had never had screen credit before, got the chance to call out their own names and hometowns on camera. ALBUM 7. (T.Times, 8-20-46, p. 6)

Marquees--Tacoma--1940-1950; Electric signs--Tacoma--1940-1950; Queues--Tacoma; Theaters--Tacoma--1940-1950; Roxy Theatre (Tacoma);

Tacoma Mayor Val Fawcett wears a Hawaiian lei in a publicity photo for KVI Radio taken at his office in (Old) City Hall. ALBUM 14.

Mayors--Tacoma--1940-1950; Fawcett, Clarence Valdo, 1900-1965; Leis;

This enormous tree section, cut from an old-growth Douglas fir, has just arrived via flat-bed truck at the Northwest Door Company in early August of 1946. Anthony A. "Spike" Maras, of the Davis & Maras Co., is standing on top measuring it with a yard stick. The huge section is from a tree almost 14 feet in diameter cut on Northwest Door's timber lands near Mt. Rainier. The section weighs over 18,000 pounds and contains 516 cubic feet of wood and bark. The Northwest Door Co. will cut a cross section and place it on display outside the building. Northwest Door opened at 1203 East D Street in December 1935. It was founded by Herman Tenzler and J.H. Gonyea. (photo identification supplied by Anthony "Spike" Maras)

Northwest Door Co., Inc. (Tacoma); Tree stumps--Tacoma--1940-1950; Trucks--Tacoma--1940-1950; Logs; Lumber industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Maras, Anthony A.;

Two young women dressed in Scottish Highland costumes hand out leaflets about the show at the Music Box Theater to pedestrians at the corner of Broadway and 11th Street. The theater is playing "The Green Years", another story by A.J. Cronin about Robert Shannon, an Irish boy's growing to manhood, starring Charles Coburn, Tom Drake, and Beverly Tyler, directed by Victor Saville. Victor Saville also directed two other motion pictures of A.J. Cronin books, "The Citadel" and "Good-bye Mr. Chips". (T.Times, 8/21/1946, p.10; 8/22/1946, p.10)

Pedestrians--Tacoma--1940-1950; Crosswalks--Tacoma--1940-1950; Commercial streets--Tacoma--1940-1950; Business districts--Tacoma--1940-1950; Women--Tacoma--1940-1950; Costumes--Scottish;

Aerial view of Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company. The Tacoma plant covers nearly 40 acres of tideflats on the Hylebos waterway. This location was chosen in 1929 because of favorable electric power rates, availability and quality of water, access to water, rail and motor transportation and its central location for its principal customers, the pulp and paper mills. The name of the corporation was changed to Pennwalt Corp. prior to the merger of Pennsalt and Wallace & Tierman, Inc. (TNT, 11/29/1968)

Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Co. of Washington (Tacoma); Factories--Tacoma--1940-1950; Chemical industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Hylebos Waterway (Tacoma); Waterfronts--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Puget Sound Boat for Anthony Madruga. A new fishing vessel is shown docked near the ways buildings at Puget Sound Boat Building Company. TPL-8911

Piers & wharves--Tacoma--1940-1950; Puget Sound Boat Building Corp. (Tacoma); Boat & ship industry--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Douglas Fir Plywood Association, stages of plywood prefabricated panel manufacturing taken at Tacoma Lumber Fabricating Company. The panels were used to build prefabricated houses. Here workmen are placing one of the panels in a steel pressure press. This press is one of six the company owns. The company took over the location of the earlier Henry Mill in 1944. (T.Times, 11/6/1946, p.7)

Plywood; Building materials industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Tacoma Lumber Fabricating Co. (Tacoma);

Douglas Fir Plywood Association, stages of plywood prefabricated panel manufacturing taken at Tacoma Lumber Fabricating Company. A framework for a one of the prefabricated panels is sent through a roller before being placed on a piece of plywood which will be the covering of one side of the panel. The prefabricated panels were manufactured in standard sized for floors, walls, ceilings, partitions, and roofs. They are freely adaptable to contractors' specification for all grades of houses. (T.Times, 11/6/1946, p.7)

Plywood; Building materials industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Tacoma Lumber Fabricating Co. (Tacoma);

Douglas Fir Plywood Association, stages of plywood prefabricated panel manufacturing taken at Tacoma Lumber Fabricating Company. Men add another plywood cover to the side of the milled lumber frame interior of the prefabricated panel. The company's goal is to complete 1,000 panels per day, enough for 10 complete homes per day. (T.Times, 11/6/1946, p.7)

Plywood; Building materials industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Tacoma Lumber Fabricating Co. (Tacoma);

Tacoma Police Department. Ten dignitaries, attending the graduation services for 37 police officers, stand on the stage at Stadium High School.

Police--Tacoma--1940-1950; Law enforcement training--Tacoma--1940-1950; Tacoma Police Department (Tacoma); Stadium High School (Tacoma); Stages (Platforms);

Charles Devlin, interior and exterior views of residence for Douglas Fir Plywood Association. A female model reads at a desk next to a fireplace with a fire burning. The walls, ceiling and fireplace surround are all made of plywood in this model home.

Publicity; Plywood; Model houses; Artists' models;

Charles Devlin, for Douglas Fir Plywood Association. Jerry Johnson floats on a surfboard made of plywood. She is wearing a bathing suit and is sunning herself. Jerry Johnson is Violet (Mrs. Charles) Devlin's sister. Jerry Johnson Hudson Cummings was the Society editor for the News Tribune for many years. (information supplied by family member)

Publicity; Plywood; Model houses; Artists' models; Bathing suits; Johnson, Jerry;

Aerial view of Puget Sound Plywood, Inc., other plants, and the waterways on the Tacoma tideflats. Philadelphia Quartz has a new plant to make silicate of soda, a liquid mineral adhesive used extensively in manufacturing plywood and composition board. Puget Sound Plywood opened in March 1942. They were the first cooperative plywood plant in the city, organized by a group of Tacomans and others connected with and interested in the lumber industry. The plant occupied 3 1/2 acres at the head of East F Street and East E Street between the City and Middle waterways. With rail facilities direct to the plant, there were switching facilities to all railroads. (T.Times, 2/25/1942; Ledger, 1/25/1942)

Puget Sound Plywood, Inc. (Tacoma); Waterfronts--Tacoma--1940-1950; Plywood; Lumber industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Cooperatives--Tacoma;