The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-07
Orchids. Kiiolrafts and Snoirbalis!

Like the farmer who had out to the barn
Isn't bad idea for fellow to take look around MS
himself TO one of those chamber Of commerce tours if you
please.
As you probably know and even IL YOU don't
your reporter has just returned from his annual
layGff and instead of making the usual li-day dash
10 Tibet Siberia. he decided 10 give the merry Odds
mobile a break and take his scenery in little bits
short on mileage and long on variety.
Come to think Of it. the automobile wonderful thing
: If you want to clip off thousand miles in two days,
Just press down hard and long the throttle and there you
and if is just bit of here and there easy clip
it is all the same TO modern
This newsboy learned one thing 10 his entire salts
faction "a fellow can sure see a mess Of beautiful
country in Washington on few gallons of gas and
greenback two and it doesn't make much diff
ference what his idea of beauty happens TO be.
OF course the story from fields to seashore in two
hours" is familiar perhaps familiar and it
is safe bet that there literally thousands of Tacomans
who know it only as story they have never been to the
mountain to the either. for that matter.
To many will be news that the second largest orchid
farm in the United States operated by the Island Nursery
Vashon Island and that here within few miles of the
CITY, grow the flowers of the tropics for which the payboy
of Broadway Chicago and way points lay it on the line
plenty!
And not far from the orchid farm is that
50-thousand watt radio transmission station which
k1RO recently opened II is the only major sta
tion in the country which employs direcona broad
casting. II is truly magnificent layout and one
which you will enjoy visiting
The Hood Canal loop another trip about which much
has been said and about which many of locals know only
what we read in the papers perhaps one of ths most
beautiful and varied short trips in America
Swinging down through Aberdeen past the glorious Lake
Pacific pounds everlasting tattoo half submerged rocks
and sandy beach north and eastward along the shores of
machess Lake Crescent the clear deep waters Of which
reflect the blue of the sky like mirror and finally
into Port Angeles and south along of the most famous
inland water ways in the world Hood Canal.
Here indeed. is trip which calls tourists from the
four of the world but which Of the
home address take casually if we take il at
ALL
Then there is the mountain Sunrise and Para
disc the greatest high altitude playground in
America the miles upon miles of virgin timber
the glimpse of deer and bear which insist crossing
the highway just 10 get on the other side.
Perhaps those of who born and raised in Ia
along the shores of Puget Sound will take my
thusasm just another chunk of newspaper promotion but
you will be fooing yourselves.
Most of my childhood days spent under the pail of
smoke and fog which in times past and parcel of
Pittsburgh the steel capital of the world. Believe
it treat to the and the privileges and
beauty which the brhrgh of native and daughters
of the Evergreen State faryaes for little boys to hear
before going bed their dreams wouldn't be covered with
big, black smudges of soot
Our idea of a picnic a day at the park
idea which 10000 other folks had at and the
time We spread out the lunch on the grass
could find that much grass in one spot, and had to
start home in time for the horses to have their dinner
In those days, mile had $3.50 feet in it, Today, that
mile is but a minute two long and the week
end trip of my boy hood is after dinner jaunt for
the family car of 1871.
You and of the State of Washington more fortunate
than realize CARRIED in scenic beauty of match
less quality and blessed with personal transportation which
king of yesteryear denied.
You helm yourself whe you buy ~; Trust ~,,,