Tacoma in 1934 didn’t look as different as you’d think. Disregarding the dated cigarette ads and racist cartoons, showtimes for the Rialto theatre and political articles on how to lower taxes dominated The Tacoma Times.
Tacoma has museums, photo archives at the library, and many websites dedicated to preserving its history. However, a truly invaluable way of learning about the history of a city you love is talking to someone who actually lived it.
Think of Small Business Saturday as your post-Black Friday palette cleanser.
Look up Harold Bromley in the history books and you'll find photos of a man ready to take off for Tokyo from Tacoma Field.
If you live in Tacoma, chances are good that you've passed by FabLab without ever realizing it. That's a shame, my friend, because it's one of the most interesting businesses in the city.
As of 2018, Tacoma has 19 retail cannabis locations. These serve both medical cannabis patients and adults over 21 who use cannabis for recreation.
“We keep reinventing ways for people to be celebrities, but what we’re always drawn to is someone who’s being authentic.”...
Here’s the backstory: People talk a lot about busted roads in Tacoma but this 500 foot strip of awful is literally more patch than road at this point. The potholes are so deep you can actually damage your chassis if you don’t navigate them properly. Its infamy is so widespread that, in years past, whenever there was a paving project elsewhere in the city that ended up with surplus asphalt, the crews would bring the extras here to dump into the potholes.
It is a crisp fall day in Kobayashi Park. The trees that form a canopy over the rushing waters where Leach Creek flows into Chambers Creek are changing colors and yellow leaves blanket the trail.
Head over to Top of Tacoma and just outside you'll find a message of love.
Decorating for the holidays has become less common in recent years and for a place like Tacoma that’s a real shame. With all our grey and rainy days, we need as many Christmas lights as possible to twinkle through the gloom of winter.
Photoshop is a wonderful tool. You can fool people into thinking Tacoma’s guerilla art has gone rogue and you can...