Hidden history of Tacoma
Subtitle: little-known tales from the city of destiny
By: Karla Stover
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781609494704
Subjects: Buildings, structures; Social life and customs; Historic buildings; Anecdotes; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part I. God Made the World and Men Made Tacoma; title: Just Give the Man a Ruler : Laying out a Town; title: Peril With Piling Worms : Life on the Wharf; title: Water Water Everywhere but Not a Drop to Drink; title: A Tisket a Tasket, the Streetcar Has a Casket : Pioneer Cemeteries; title: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes : 1889, the Year of Fires; title: Wandering Ghosts and Watery Graves; title: Part II. Anything You Can Do, Tacoma Can Do Better; title: Catch It If You Can : Turnip Tossing from the National Realty Building; title: All Roads Lead to Rhodes; title: Eleventh Street Bridge : The Prequel; title: Girder to God on the Rust Building; title: Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes, but the Breweries Will Object; title: A Roof with a Zoo : The Washington Building; title: Dancing with the Stars, or at Least Under Them : The Winthrop Hotel; title: Part III. Civilized Living; title: The Hotel Hesperides : Gracious Living at Titlow Lodge; title: The Iceman Cometh; title: Waitress! There's a Fly in My Food! : Esther Allstrum and Clean Food Acts; title: The Eye of the Law Falls on Women; title: Cleanliness : Next to Godliness?; title: Cursed Abode? : The Quick and the Dead at the Rust House; title: Lean Back and Open Wide; title: Silent Steeds : Recreational Wheels; title: Behind the Wrong Kinds of Bars; title: Part IV. Comings and Goings; title: Get Thee to the Brothel : Sarah Bernhardt Entertains; title: Expletives Deleted : Mark Twain in Tacoma; title: So You Want to Be a Star? : Hollywood Beckons; title: It Started at Warner Brothers : Art Gilmore; title: Anti-Self-Fueling Air-Engines? : Cartoonist Frank Beck; title: Tinsel Town in Tacoma? : The Weaver Studios; title: Rising to the Occasion : Lesser-Known Visitors; title: Part V. The Century Advances; title: Labor Speaks : The General Strike of 1918; title: Loose Lips Saved the Ships; title: Rapid Transit; title: Women's Work; title: The Summer of '42 : Bond Drives; title: Just Give the Man a Ruler : Laying Out a Town.