Lloyd Suiter, the owner of the Lloyd Suiter Tire Company, standing inside a stack of graduated sized truck tires. See more featured images and posts…
Sticky and Sweet
Workers at Nalley's Puyallup Avenue factory inspect and prepare to package cans of Lumberjack Syrup for use during the Puyallup Fair. See more featured images and posts…
Last Days of Bonneville
Bonneville Hotel. Looking upward at the deteriorating exterior rafters of the Bonneville Hotel, 109 Tacoma Ave. S, on August 21, 1965. Originally named the Rochester Hotel after its construction in 1888, it was renamed the Bonneville in 1906 in honor of novelist Washington Irving's character, Capt. Bonneville. Although renovated in the 1920's, and later purchased…
Cats and Dogs and Puppies and Kittens
Dolores Hansen sitting on the wooden steps of her home with her black and white house cat that is nursing five motherless puppies. The question is will the puppies learn to bark or meow? The Hansen's cat came to the rescue of the litter of puppies when the Hansen's mother dog was poisoned shortly after…
Iron Horse
John Ford western, "The Iron Horse." was showing at the Rialto Theatre in August of 1925. To help promote the movie, which took four years to make, the theater arranged for this Union Pacific "locomotive" to appear in Tacoma with 84-year-old famed Indian scout and interpreter Col. Alfred L. Chapman and his Chippewa wife, Princess…
Use the library’s Buildings Index to research the history of your house!
Have you ever been interested in the history of a building or house in Tacoma or Pierce County? If so we recommend checking out our Tacoma-Pierce County Buildings Index. Here, you’ll find a list of references to properties in local newspapers, books, and magazines, along with available information about the construction year, builders and contractors…
Fire at Western
Blacken timbers are all that are left of a one fourth completed new tuna clipper boat being built for a San Diego fisherman. The total destruction of the tuna boat is just part of the $2,000,000 fire that damaged the Western Boat Building Company, plant #2, and the Marine Iron Works on the east side…
BBQ @ Villa Plaza
Lakewood and vicinity residents queued up for a bargain on August 4, 1960 - the 29 cent chicken feast in the Villa Plaza Shopping Center parking lot, 10500 Gravelly Lake Dr. S.W. Two-60 foot BBQ pits, possibly the largest known open-air pits, were set up in front of the Woolworth and J.C. Penney block of…
LibraryReads August 2021
Nothing says “must read” quite like a Librarian’s stamp of approval! Every month LibraryReads.org releases the top picks for the month, as voted on by Librarian
Still the Ones…
Prohibition came to Washington State early, with its passage taking effect at 12:01amon January 1, 1916. By 1920, local entrepreneurs were very savvy at brewing "moonshine" in homemade distilleries, or "stills." This pile was only the most recent installment of confiscated stills in Pierce County. See more featured images and posts…
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