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Agenda for the Board of Trustees September 5, 2018 Special Meeting
The special meeting of the Library Board of Trustees will take place on September 5, 2018 at 5:30 PM at the Main Branch (3rd floor Board Room). Please see the attached 2018-09-05-Library-Board-of-Trustees-Agenda-Special-Meeting…
Inspectors Inspecting
Members of the Citizens Advisory Committee inspect school classrooms on August 30, 1954. Mrs. A.A. Price is observed opening a small drawer in a large dilapidated work table while Mrs. Gordon Hartwick, of the League of Women Voters, looks on. William Rave of the Carpenters Union leans over a cracked and dirty fish tank. Peeling…
Wednesday Fun Day
Drop in every Wednesday afternoon, between 4:00 pm and 5:30 pm, at the Moore Branch for a fun activity! Activities will vary each week, but will consist of Family Game Days, STEM activities, crafts, Tales to Tails (read to a dog) and more…
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
In August of 1926, Killian Van R. Schermerhorn, standing, and Wilmot McCune spent a week rowing 80 nautical miles from Point Defiance to Olympia and back. The Stadium High School juniors travelled in a double-oared "clinker" that they rented from the park's boathouse. They rowed in sunshine, moonlight and even a storm that landed them…
Drive Right In!
Saturday August 21, 1954 marked the grand opening of the Narrows Drive-In at 6602 Sixth Avenue. Under the co-ownership and management of Norris Telling and James Slopak, it employed the latest in modern fixtures and equipment to provide speedy service with less effort. The menu included complete dinners, short orders and fountain service. Open from…
If the Shoe Fits
As summer came to an end in late August of 1950, it was time to get new shoes for school. Dede Carstens and her mother, Mrs. Thomas Carstens, went to Spellman's Buster Brown Shoe Store at 1122-28 Broadway. Buster Brown Shoes had opened their store in the David Gross Block building in 1924. In the…
Cubelets: Modular Robots
Through play and experimentation, Cubelets transform from a block set to robots. Click the magnetic blocks together and each arrangement results in a sound, light, or motion. There's no wrong way to build! Ages: 5 – 18 (manufacturer recommended 8 and up) Required: Helping adult and registered child Find the nearest times and locations to…
Great Invention – or Was It…
An interested crowd gathers at the Kent Auto Marshaling complex on August 17, 1970, to see the Vert-A-Pak bulk compact carrier in action. It appears to be a unique way to transport new automobiles. Present in the group is C.E. Crippen, president of the Milwaukee Road, whose organization developed the automobile unloading center. The system…
Monster from the Deep
An unidentified beauty posed with a very strange sea-beast in this photograph taken for the Tacoma Times in August, 1948. Al Meissner and E.C. Berg were trolling for salmon off Neah Bay when this denizen of the deep, an unidentified fish came swimming by their boat. They brought him back to Tacoma with them and…
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