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Item
Title
TPL-921
Date(s)
- 1937 (Creation)
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Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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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;