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- 1969-07-01
Part of Richards Studio Photographs
This is how Owen Beach at Point Defiance looked from the air on July 1, 1969. The beach fronting Commencement Bay was named after Floyd E. Owen, a Metro Parks employee for 47 years. There is a marker, a bronze tablet placed on a stone upright near the entrance to the picnic area of the beach. There was plenty of room for more people to bask on the sands of Owen Beach as it appeared relatively uncrowded on this summer day. The parking lot, however, seemed almost full.
Beaches--Tacoma; Owen Beach (Tacoma); Point Defiance Park (Tacoma);