145 years ago today, the City of Tacoma was officially incorporated. This came only 23 years after the first Euro-American...
For a brief period of time many Tacoma residents experienced the bit of bounce that earned the original Tacoma Narrows...
Illustrations by Oksana Krytska On Sunday November 1, 1908, the Tacoma Daily Ledger ran a column on page 13 titled,...
Sitting a block down from one of Tacoma’s busiest intersections at Sprague and 7th Ave. sits a 105 year old building that, for the last decade, has sat vacant and largely ignored by passersby.
Does this booklet look familiar to you? I found it a while ago when I was helping my grandma clean...
Photos by Sierra Hartman We’re big fans of the Tacoma Public Library. Some of our favorite historic images and little...
Nestled in downtown Tacoma in a narrow park stands a totem pole. At one point, it was brightly painted, but the paint is faded. Graffiti is carved into the base. At the top sits an eagle with wings spread, as if surveying the port below.
When we think of shocking events in history there’s usually one photo or video clip that comes to mind—The Hindenburg...
We talk about local history a lot here. When it comes to the Indigenous people who have occupied this land...
It won’t come as a surprise to anyone that the real story of Thanksgiving is somewhat more complex than the...
Tacoma may not be Nashville or Detroit, but it's got its fair share of music history. The argument could be made, in fact, that the Grit City is the figurative birthplace of garage rock, and it's inarguably the literal birthplace of one of America's most beloved music celebrities
In 1955 Kaiser Aluminum decided there was no better way to promote safety on the job than to have models—in bikinis—demonstrate proper equipment handling.
