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Main Branch Staff Lounge

Main Branch Staff Lounge

The Tacoma Public Library says goodbye to page Brenda Gann in this circa 2001 photograph taken in the staff lounge. Seated at the table in the foreground are Dorothy (Mika) Stewart in blue jacket and Brenda Gann, sipping water. At the table in the rear are (l-r) librarians Cathy Oden, Jenny Hartley and Technical Services manager Anne Heller.

Hilltop Area - 22

Hilltop Area - 22

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Hilltop (Home Ownership Program) Terence Thomas - Real-estate/Personal Banker, working with Evelyn Hargrove.

“Terence Thomas, a Seafirst real estate personal banker, talks with Evelyn Hargrove, one of the potential buyers, at a class Seafirst organized” to educate people about credit applications and real-estate transactions. Seafirst Bank, the Martin Luther King Housing Development Association, and the Tacoma Housing Authority organized a program to help low-income Pierce County residents purchase a home and revitalize Tacoma’s Hilltop Neighborhood.

Hilltop Area - 23

Hilltop Area - 23

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Hilltop (Home Ownership Program)

“One of the six houses in the Seafirst program awaits the remodelers’ hammers and saws.” Seafirst Bank, the Martin Luther King Housing Development Association, and the Tacoma Housing Authority organized a program to help low-income Pierce County residents purchase a home and revitalize Tacoma’s Hilltop Neighborhood. Four houses were purchased by the Martin Luther King Housing Development Association and two others were owned by the Tacoma Housing Authority. The Martin Luther King Housing Development served as the developer and remodel of all six homes while Seafirst Bank provided government backed loans to both agencies that would later be assumed by the buyers.

Suchier, Jean-Marc (Morpho Systems) - 1

Suchier, Jean-Marc (Morpho Systems) - 1

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Jean-Marc Suchier returns as President and CRO of North American Morpho Systems, Inc., a high-technology imaging corporation he founded more than ten years ago.

North American MORPHO Systems, Inc.
1145 Broadway Plaza, Suite 300
Tacoma, Washington 98402

Nuclear Power Plant--(Hanford Nuclear Reservation)(Hanford Atomic Energy Commission Reservation) ...

Nuclear Power Plant--(Hanford Nuclear Reservation)(Hanford Atomic Energy Commission Reservation) - 15

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Demolished Town
The empty shell of the old Hanford High School is the largest remaining sign of the farm town of Hanford, WA., which was demolished along with White Bluffs to make way for nuclear weapons plants near the Columbia River fifty years ago March 6th. Hanford's name lives on as the moniker of the sprawling Hanford nuclear reservation in southeastern Washington. Wartime urgency doomed the towns.
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