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The name has changed, and so has the style. But looking back through 125 years of Tacoma newspapers, what is stunning are the things that have not changed.
Here, we take a look at the stories and values that have shaped our coverage over the last 125 years.
Here, we take a look at the stories and values that have shaped our coverage over the last 125 years.
By the mid-1980s, Tacoma’s Union Station was a sad old relic. A domed-and-vaulted masterpiece of neoclassical design when it opened in 1911, the train depot was decrepit, filthy and probably headed for a date with the wrecking ball.
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Together over the past 12 months we have shared a journey of 125 years. The origins of this newspaper were planted in 1883 – and since January, writers at The News Tribune have celebrated this anniversary with a chronicle of weekly snapshots on the South Sound cover.
It’s easy enough to remember but perhaps hard to imagine how we celebrated the coming of Christmas 50 years ago. There was news in The News Tribune that week of a rocket into space, a commie on our doorstep, Elvis in Germany – but much more than that, for a child of the day, there was a trip downtown.
Tacomans seeking amusement on a drizzly December day in 1898 consulted The Daily Ledger, where ads promoted the play “House of Bondage” at the Tacoma Theatre and vaudeville at the Star, the Grand and the Pantages.
Dec. 7, 1941– the day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor – occurred as the Sunday front page of the News Tribune/Tacoma Ledger featured news of “Tacoma’s biggest grid game.”
Finding a job in 1934 was nearly impossible for the 17 million people who were unemployed at the height of the Great Depression.
Bribes, bootleggers, gambling dens, police payoffs, pot parties and perfumed ladies of the evening – all were on the menu in Tacoma during the last week of November 1951.
Mrs. J.E. Colyar smiled in her booking photo, which appeared on the front page of The Tacoma Times in September 1942.
“HUNS STOP FIGHTING, GIVE UP NAVY AND RHINE TO THE ALLIES”
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story contains offensive language – generally accepted at the time – from an 1885 newspaper account. We’re including it to give readers an honest account of the period. Not all of the editorial stances taken by The News Tribune and its forebears over the years can be looked back at with pride.
In October 1968, Tacoma only had eyes for Kaye.
The Tacoma Hotel, once the finest crib north of San Francisco, left the world the way it thrived for half a century: in a blaze of glory.
When the Spanish flu epidemic struck Tacoma in October 1918, the city was a bustling boomtown near a thriving military post during World War I.