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Dashiell Hammett's Tacoma

Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961), acclaimed as the creator of modern American detective fiction, spent a winter in Tacoma not long before he began writing the stories that would make him famous. This acco...

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Steamships Glenogle and City of Kingston collide in Tacoma's Commencement Bay on April 23, 1899

On April 23, 1899, two ships collide in the early morning darkness on Commencement Bay. The Glenogle is a 400-foot ocean liner bound for Asia. The City of Kingston is a 246-foot da...

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Tacoma's Hooverville: Hollywood on the Tideflats

Shack towns and homeless encampments – "Hoovervilles" – multiplied in Washington before and during the Great Depression. In Tacoma, an encampment near the city garbage dump cover...

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1 Timeline Entry

Eyes of the Totem premiers at Broadway Theater in Tacoma on June 10, 1927.

On June 10, 1927, the silent film Eyes of the Totem premiers at the Broadway Theater in Tacoma, the city where the film was made by H. C. Weaver Productions. It is the second feature film made by the ...

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