ca. 1937. Alfred Oswald of Bekins Moving & Storage and Arthur Cook, secretary/treasurer of the Young Men's Business Club look down to examine information regarding the Air Circus scheduled for June 13, 1937. Mr. Oswald was on the YMBC aviation committee. This is a cropped photograph of D768-4.

Oswald, Arthur; Cook, Arthur A.; Young Men's Business Club (Tacoma);

ca. ,1937. Stevens and Vetter Garage Inc., 501 Puyallup Ave. Anton J. Vetter was president of the company. (WSHS)

Stevens & Vetter Garage Inc. (Tacoma);

ca. 1937. The Stationers, interior. In the typewriter repair shop, three men are working on manual typewriters. (filed with Argentum)

Stationers, Inc. (Tacoma); Office equipment & supplies; Typewriters;

ca. 1937. St. Regis Kraft Co.; filtering plant circa 1937. (WSHS)

St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1930-1940; Mills--Tacoma--1930-1940; Paper industry--Tacoma--1930-1940;

Associated Oil Company meeting at the Tacoma Hotel. Men in chairs and on platform with radio. "Flying A" logo displays of football players, placards "Play Ball with Associated Go to the Games with A" and "We Hope You Enjoy Our Football Sportscasts." (filed with Argentum)

Tacoma Hotel (Tacoma); Hotels--Tacoma--1930-1940; Associated Oil Co. (Tacoma); Business people;

View up Saint Helens Avenue from about Market Street. Tacoma News Tribune building in right foreground, Webster Apartments beyond. Allen Motor Company, Studebaker garage a block up on left, Walker Apartments beyond that. (filed with Argentum)

Business districts--Tacoma--1930-1940; Commercial streets--Tacoma--1930-1940; Walker Apartments (Tacoma); Automobiles--Tacoma--1930-1940;

ca. 1937. Stadium High School Tigers Football Team in Stadium Bowl. The players wear football uniforms and pads minus the helmets. A football shaped scoreboard can be seen in the background. Players are, left to right, front row: Johnson, Nichols, Robinson, Boyle, Nash, Beckman & McCord. Back row: Hudson, Opolsky, Martin & Davies. The 1938 yearbook the "Tahoma" calls the players "the greatest team ever to wear the Blue and Gold." The 1937 team would end the season undefeated, winning both the city and Cross-State titles. The team was coached by John Heinrick. (1938 "Tahoma"; T. Times 9/24/1937, pg. 15-picture)

Football--Tacoma; Football players--Tacoma--1930-1940; Athletic fields--Tacoma; Stadium High School (Tacoma); Stadium Bowl (Tacoma); Public schools--Tacoma--1930-1940;

ca. 1937. Stadium High School Tigers Football Team in Stadium Bowl. The players wear football uniforms and pads minus the helmets. A football shaped scoreboard can be seen in the background. Players are, left to right, front row: Johnson, Nichols, Robinson, Boyle, Nash, Beckman & McCord. Back row: Hudson, Opolsky, Martin & Davies. The 1938 yearbook the "Tahoma" calls the players "the greatest team ever to wear the Blue and Gold." The 1937 team would end the season undefeated, winning both the city and Cross-State titles. The team was coached by John Heinrick. (1938 "Tahoma"; T. Times 9/24/1937, pg. 15-picture)

Football--Tacoma; Football players--Tacoma--1930-1940; Athletic fields--Tacoma; Stadium High School (Tacoma); Stadium Bowl (Tacoma); Public schools--Tacoma--1930-1940;

ca. 1937. Ernest Goettling and family by Christmas tree. Three daughters by fireplace, two sons on either side of father, and wife Susie in chair. Goettling was a contractor. (Argentum)

Goettling, Ernest--Family; Christmas trees;

ca. 1937. Man standing next to large coal truck in front of Griffin Fuel Company office building. Snoqualmie Falls Power Company Transfer House, 250 So. 19th St., in background. Griffin Fuel 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. They delivered and sold fuel in the forms of oil, coal, wood and sawdust. Pat Cardin, recently appointed manager of Griffin burner & diesel oil business, helped Ed Griffin design this new style oil tank delivery truck. Its design included a centrifugal silent pump.

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

ca. 1937. A woman known as "the mother of Hoodlum Lake" sits in a rocking chair on the front porch of her house in this circa 1937 photograph. The woman's large black dog rests his paws on her lap. The woman has been identified by her great granddaughter as Eva Lena Tuel Potter. Eva Potter was the great, great granddaughter of Levi Scott, one of the original Oregon pioneers who traveled on the Applegate Trail. (T. Times).

Potter, Eva Lena Tuel; Potter, Eva Lena Tuel --Homes & haunts; Dogs--Tacoma--1930-1940; Rocking chairs;

ca. 1937. Strikers "locked out" at Peoples Store. Three women walking by storefront window; one is wearing a "Locked Out" sign. (T.Times).

Strikes--Tacoma--1930-1940; Department stores--Tacoma--1930-1940; Peoples (Tacoma);

ca. 1937. Strikers "locked out" at The Peoples Store. Full view of the four-story department store building designed by Carl August Darmer, Architect in 1895. Pedestrians and streetcar tracks in the foreground. (T. Times).

Strikes--Tacoma--1930-1940; Department stores--Tacoma--1930-1940; Peoples (Tacoma);

Maxine Mayhew holds a Bantam rooster at the 34th Annual Tacoma Poultry Show held in the old Mohr Building, 1141 Broadway, on December 28-31, 1937. Maxine smiles at the small rooster, who appears to be having a "bad hair day." After the show, the traditional poultrymen's banquet, a home-cooked chicken dinner, was held on Saturday, January 1st in the Odd Fellows Hall, 6th and Fawcett.(T. Times, 12/30, p. 3; 12/31/1937, p. 14).

Tacoma Poultry Show (Tacoma); Poultry; Chickens; Animal shows--Tacoma--1930-1940; Mayhew, Maxine; Roosters; Children & animals;

ca. 1937. U. S. Coast Guard ship 402 moored beside a wharf below the 11th Street Bridge. By June of 1937, the CG 402 had been permanently assigned to Tacoma. In peace time, they operated under the direct orders of the Treasury Department; but in wartime they answered to the secretary of the Navy. The 402 had been built on the Atlantic coast and during Prohibition, the speedy vessel had served as a rum chaser. The 402 was surplussed by the Navy in 1946 to the Boy Scouts. She is still in use, as of August 2001, as the Sea Scout Ship Charles N. Curtis #110. She is moored on the Thea Foss Waterway. (T. Times 6-3-1937, pg. 8-article).

Vessels; Government vessels; Sea Scouts (Tacoma); Piers & wharves--Tacoma;

ca. 1937. In June of 1937 John L. "Lee" Kress opened his first malt shop in Tacoma at the corner of 9th and Broadway in the Bostwick Building; he already had operated two ice cream shops in Olympia. Mr. Kress' new Tacoma shop could seat 40 customers at the counter and in booths. While a boy growing up in Tacoma, his father Paul B. Kress worked as a salesman for the Henningsen Creamery Company. Lee Kress died in 1959 at the age of 45.

Kress Malt Shop (Tacoma); Restaurants--Tacoma--1930-1940;

Mrs. Rae at her roll-top desk. Taken for Mr. Short at the Tacoma Times. (T. Times).

Women

Man sitting at roll top desk

Two men seated

Mr. Lee holding copy of Tacoma Times newspaper.

Tom Savos being served a beverage

ca. 1937. Rowena Ball standing in front of grand piano, circa 1937. Miss Ball was a talented young pianist and a student of Adeline Foss Foreman. She was the featured soloist with the Tacoma Philharmonic during a Mozart concerto in 1936. She was already recognized as one of the Northwest's premier young pianists. (T.Times 6-4-1937, pg. 5-article; 11/19/1937, pg. 3- picture & caption)

Ball, Rowena; Pianists--Tacoma; Pianos;

Robert, age 2, and Peter Ribolla, age 4, pose in sailor suits in front of living room drapes. The smaller boy is waving. The boys are are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Danilo Ribolla. Mrs. Ribolla is the former Gloria Fogg. The Ribollas have recently come from New York to enjoy their first Christmas in Tacoma. They will spend the winter at the Buckingham Apartments in Tacoma and later make their home in Olympia. (T. Times 12/18/1937, pg. 7)

Boys--1930-1940; Ribolla, Robert; Ribolla, Peter; Ribolla, Danilo--Family;

ca. 1937. Mrs. Evelyn Moser, Tacoma's woman meat cutter, posed in January of 1937 knife in hand behind a large slab of meat. At that time Mrs. Moser was one of the few, and possibly the only, female butcher in the United States. For the past 18 years, she had cut the meat at her father's Sunrise Market at 1207 Center Street. She was a renowned and highly respected meat cutter despite her dainty, small size. In addition to Mrs. Moser, both her father and brother, Frank W.Hamilton, Sr. and Jr., were butchers. (T.Times 1-28-37, p. 18-alt. photograph)

Butchers--Tacoma--1930-1940; Meat; Meat cutting; Moser, Evelyn;

ca. 1937. The first weekend in April of 1937 was bringing Bremerton's Girl Scout Cookie drive to a close. Mrs. F.A. Stark, a member of the Bremerton Girl Scout council, was photographed receiving her cookies from Maxine Flieder, left, and Mary Taylor from Troop #7. Girl Scouts first started selling cookies to raise funds for scouting programs in 1917. During those early years, the Girl Scouts and their mothers baked the cookies they sold at home. By 1937, when this picture was taken for the Bremerton Sun, over 125 councils reported holding cookies sales, and the scouts were no longer making their own cookies. (Bremerton Sun 04-03-1937, pg. 1)).

Cookies; Girl Scouts (Bremerton); Flieder, Maxine; Taylor, Mary; Stark, F.A.--Family;

ca. 1937. National Guard Dinner at the Union Club. Eight National Guard men handcuffed in pairs on the interior stairs.

Union Club (Tacoma); Washington National Guard (Tacoma); Military personnel--Tacoma--1930-1940; Uniforms--Washington National Guard--1930-1940;

ca. 1937. Puget Sound Feed Co., 302 E. 26th St., Tacoma. The feed store was constructed in 1937. They were authorized dealers for Albers Feeds. Two trucks were being loaded for delivery at right and a worker can be seen through the empty loading dock door front, wheeling feed sacks on a dolly as two men at ground level watch.

ca. 1937. Side angle view of two buses for Chehalis to Astoria route in front of White Truck Company. (filed with Argentum)

Trucks--Tacoma--1930-1940; White trucks; Tacoma White Trucks, Inc. (Tacoma); Automobile dealerships--Tacoma--1930-1940;