What’s the best Christmas present you ever received? For Job Carr, it was probably finding the 138 acres that would become the city of Tacoma, which he claimed on Christmas Day of 1864.
Tired of not having anything historically relevant to talk about in Tacoma on Independence Day? We know how you feel....
From the 'you can't make this stuff up files' comes a look back at the 1955 Tacoma Home Show, where there was plenty for guests to see at the College of Puget Sound's field house (now the University of Puget Sound).
Have you ever wondered how long it would take nature to reclaim a neighborhood if everyone just got up and left? It’s hard to say how long an average house would last, but if you wiped the neighborhood off the map and left the ground bare, 67 years is, evidently, more than enough time to blend the land back into the surrounding wilderness.
In 2009 rumors began to circulate that Never Never Land's statues were being stored in a secret underground location. Three years later Sharon Styer, a Tacoma resident who'd seen the storybook characters just before they all disappeared from Point Defiance, jumped at the chance to take a one-time-only tour beneath downtown.
Want to take home a Tacoma girl, a Tacoma pearl? At first glance it seems Phil Baxter did, although his lyrics to a 1930's song about our lovely Tacoma ladies were nearly lost for good.
Well before the online era, promoters and performers went to great lengths to capture the attention of Tacomans. A look back at some of the creative lengths businesses, and the city itself, have gone to as catalogued and in the Tacoma Public Library's online archives...
On a sunny day in Tacoma in 1935, a young Japanese man might wake up in the hotel run by...
Photos courtesy of Washington State Historical Society These portraits were taken in 1918 by Marvin D. Boland, a prolific Tacoma-based...
The buildup to McMenamins Elks Temple‘s opening has been impressive. It’s been a decade since the property was first purchased, and...
The term “hidden gem” gets thrown around a lot but Salmon Beach really exemplifies it in every way. It’s one of the most wonderful parts of Tacoma and it’s about as hidden as you can get while still being in the city.
Allen C. Mason arrived in Tacoma with $2.85 in his pocket. The year was 1883, and by the 1890s he'd become a millionaire.