β Scribed by Lachlan Wells
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
In this collection, discover the city's early notables and uncover the stories behind the historic landmarks.;Part I. God made the world and men made Tacoma -- Just give the man a ruler : laying out a town -- Peril with piling worms : life on the wharf -- Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink -- A tisket a tasket, the streetcar has a casket : pioneer cemeteries -- Smoke gets in your eyes : 1889, the year of fires -- Wandering ghosts and watery graves -- Part II. Anything you can do, Tacoma can do better -- Catch it if you can : turnip tossing from the national realty building -- All roads lead to Rhodes -- Eleventh Street Bridge : the prequel -- Girder to God on the rust building -- Drink to me only with thine eyes, but the breweries will object -- A roof with A zoo : the Washington Building -- Dancing with the stars, or at least under them : the Winthrop Hotel -- Part III. Civilized living -- The Hotel Hesperides : gracious living at Titlow Lodge -- The iceman cometh -- waitress! There's a fly in my food! : Esther Allstrum and clean food acts -- The eye of the law falls on women -- Cleanliness : next to godliness? -- Cursed abode? : the quick and the dead at the rust house -- Lean back and open wide -- Silent steeds : recreational wheels -- Behind the wrong kinds of bars -- Part IV. Comings and goings -- Get thee to the brothel : Sarah Bernhardt entertains -- Expletives deleted : Mark Twain in Tacoma -- So you want to be a star? : Hollywood beckons -- It started at Warner Brothers : Art Gilmore -- Anti-self-fueling air-engines? : cartoonist Frank Beck -- tinsel town in Tacoma? : the Weaver Studios -- Rising to the occasion : lesser-known visitors -- Part V. The century advances -- labor speaks : the general strike of 1918 -- Loose lips saved the ships -- Rapid transit -- Women's work -- The summer of '42 : bond drives.
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