Archive for August 2020

In August of 1926 Killian Van R. Schermerhorn, in boat, and Wilmot McCune, on log, spent a week rowing 80 nautical miles from Point Defiance to Olympia and back in a double oared "clinker" they rented from the Park's boathouse. They stayed close to shore or hopped from island to island, camping when they needed…

On August 28, 1947 C.V. Fawcett, the current Mayor of Tacoma and the reigning Pacific Coast Mayors' Salmon Derby champion, squeezed in a few extra minutes of practice for the upcoming competition in his City Hall office. The mayor had barely a moment to spare as the derby was scheduled to take place on Saturday…

This unidentified young man helped advertise the "Goofy Hat Contest" being held on August 20, 1946 at the Roxy Theater by riding a mule through downtown Tacoma. The hat contest was just one of the events used to promote the movie "Breakfast in Hollywood" with Tom Breneman. The movie was based on the radio program…

Doris Lee appears to be comfortable as she sits in the basket on the front of Bobby Seeber's bicycle on August 21, 1936. The pair was enjoying ice cream cones at the 9th annual area farmers' picnic in Sumner. A day off was declared by Pierce County farmers as they and their families and friends…

A group of young boys participated in a foot race at the 12th Annual All-Rail Picnic sponsored by the Joint Railway Employees Association of Tacoma and Southwest Washington. The picnic was held on August 17, 1947 at Offut Lakes in Thurston County. Special railroad cars, along with automobiles, carried several thousand railway workers and their…

John Miller - Gardening knowledge key to productivity. Mr. Miller was a master gardener, in all sense of the word. He helped others with their gardening efforts through the Master Gardener Program Clinics sponsored by the Pierce County Cooperative Extension Service while doing an excellent job in keeping up with gardening at his own home…

The Army's 190 foot Bailey suspension bridge spanning the Mashel River on the Mount Rainier highway shown shortly after it collapsed, August 11, 1948, trapping and killing Cpl. Tommie Thompson, age 29, of Holly Ridge, Mississippi. He was in the cab of one of two cranes what were dismantling the bridge. The long arm of…

Look out Ma Bell! Two Bremerton women devise their own way to call their husbands. Mrs. Ted Pruitt, right, and Mrs. George Hall have their hands cupped around t

First Annual Bicycle Race Meet and Parade held August 5, 1938 at the Stadium Bowl. "Major Hoople" on "Leaping Lena" shaking hands with a boy on another decorate