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The Young Men's Business Club Auxiliary helped raise money for new high school band uniforms for Stadium, Lincoln and Bellarmine in April 1947. The "Band Aid " committee distributed collection/donation bottles throughout Tacoma in cooperation with local businesses. On this date, committee members (left to right) Mildred Ose, Pearl Richards, Kathleen Allard and Virginia Belfoy posed on a jeep outside Lincoln High School. The banner on the jeep includes cartoon representations of the three schools' mascots of the era: the Bellarmine Lions, Lincoln Lynx, and Stadium Tigers.
Wheeler-Osgood employees were pictured on April 10, 1928, manufacturing mahogany doors. Mahogany is a very durable wood which resists rot; its reddish hue and generally smooth surface makes for an attractive product as doors. The Wheeler-Osgood plant, located at 1216 Saint Paul Ave., produced much of the nation's supply of doors at this time. It closed in 1952 after being in business for 63 years.
These photographs of the Sixth Avenue ferry landing were taken on April 9, 1937, for court evidence. Later in April, a judgment was rendered against Pierce County, Washington Navigation Co., and Skansie Ferry in the amount of $7,711.22 for the death of a driver whose car plunged off the ferry slip in August of the previous year. Several businesses and a few homes can be seen in the two pictures.
Early in the morning on Friday April 8, 1938 Al Meyers (left) and Roy Arnold guided cable car No. 87 into the car barn at 13th and A Streets. At 1 a.m. the last cable car in Tacoma had made its last loop run up 11th Street to K Street (now Martin Luther King Jr. Way) and down 13th to A. For 47 years Tacoma's cable cars had carried hill-weary Tacomans up 11th Street to the County Court House, the Tacoma Public Library, and the K Street shopping district.
On this date in 1935, a large group of Japanese Americans were photographed inside the Methodist Episcopal Church.
On April 6, 1925, photographer Marvin Boland captured K Street (now Martin Luther King Jr. Way) devoid of traffic. He stood at South 15th Street shooting north, picturing only a couple of parked cars and the empty streetcar tracks as they ran down the road. On the left was the two year old pride of Tacoma's Norwegian population, Normanna Hall at 1502 Martin Luther King Jr. Way. It served as a meeting place for the close knit community. Down the block on the right was the Norwegian Free Lutheran Church, at 1423 MLK, built in 1902. The area was still residential with open spaces, not the commercial shopping area that it would become in the 1940's and 50's.
The Tacoma Athletic Commission celebrated the victory of Olympic Gold and Silver Medal winner Gretchen Kunigk Fraser by holding a dinner in her honor at the Top of The Ocean restaurant on April 5, 1948. Mayor Val Fawcett escorted Mrs. Fraser under a salute of crossed ski poles held by an Honor Guard representing the Tacoma Ski Team. Tacoma-raised Gretchen Fraser won a Gold and a Silver medal in the Alpine skiing races at the 1948 Winter Olympics held in St. Moritz, the first ever Olympic medals for an American alpine skier.
On April 4, 1924, the Bell System Telephone company celebrated the 40th anniversary of telephone service in Tacoma by holding a luncheon for the surviving original subscribers to Tacoma's first telephone exchange. Five female employees, dressed in the manner of 1884, welcomed the guests. They are, left to right, Icle McDowell, Lucille Croxall, Eva Mollett, Mrs. Signe Hultgrew and Mrs. Mildred Sinclair. Their guests are, left to right, A.E. Dean, R.F. Radebaugh, I.W. Anderson, Major C.O.Bates, E.W. Melse, Judge John Arthur, Arthur Patrick, John Schlarb, W.P. Bonney, W.G. Rowland, Walter J. Ball, J.M. Ashton, W.J. Thompson, Henry Drum and Stuart Rice.
On April 3, 1947, radio station KMO's "Mobile Unit" was photographed on location outside of an apartment building - we're guessing some of our eagle-eyed followers can identify the location.

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