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About This Series
The South Tacoma Way Project is about the people who call the South Sound home. The stories capture the diversity of culture, the entertainment of generations, the entrepreneurial spirit of ownership and the local sense of place that build a community.
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 Peter Haley / The News Tribune
Circus left town, but B&I stands tall -
The B&I shopping experience is something that’s not available anywhere else in Tacoma.
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Published October 11th, 2007 - 2:56PM
Drive the length of South Tacoma Way and it doesn’t look much different than the forgotten corners of any modern city.
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Published October 11th, 2007 - 2:56PM
The future of South Tacoma Way likely will hinge on its history and utilizing the infrastructure that past has left behind.
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Published October 12th, 2007 - 5:24PM
It’s shortly after 9 p.m. on a summer Friday and Tacoma police officer Daniel Hensley stops his cruiser in front of the parking lot of the now-closed nightclub Area 151on the 3500 block of South Tacoma Way. The lot is jammed with young people and Hensley wants to check it out.
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Published October 12th, 2007 - 5:24PM
In the dim back rooms of the Olympus Spa, the herbal aroma of mugwort floats through the air as women lounge in thigh-length white cotton robes and pink shower caps.
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Published October 12th, 2007 - 5:24PM
On the northern border of South Tacoma Way’s International Business District, Jennifer Chang is a virtual international district unto herself, steadfastly cooking traditional Chinese dumplings in a predominately Korean neighborhood.
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Published October 11th, 2007 - 2:56PM
Bob’s Java Jive is Tacoma. But in 1927, who could have known that the Coffee Pot (the Jive’s original name) would become such an icon to locals?
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Published October 11th, 2007 - 2:56PM
It’s 1920. It’s been 30 years since the fortune-making Northern Pacific relocated its repair shop to South 56th Street.
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Published October 11th, 2007 - 2:56PM
Before the guy in charge of innovation stated his credentials, Roman Meal’s marketing guy blurted Patrick Finney’s bona fides:
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Published October 11th, 2007 - 2:56PM
A visiting evangelist named Gypsy Smith inspired the first Tacoma Rescue Mission.
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Published October 11th, 2007 - 2:56PM
For many years they’ve been swinging it at 4851 South Tacoma Way. Swinging, and waltzing, and fox-trotting and two-stepping: all the old-time dances, done with verve and a truly infectious enjoyment.
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Published October 11th, 2007 - 2:56PM
Car culture along South Tacoma Way ranges from vintage rides to tuner pride. It’s a rich mix of the old and the new and everything in between.
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Published October 11th, 2007 - 2:56PM
For decades there has been a heavy concentration of taverns, nightclubs and restaurants on South Tacoma Way, between 54th and 56th streets. Not that the area was exactly a prime entertainment destination in 2000, the year Kenny Bender bought Dawson’s Tavern.
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Published October 12th, 2007 - 5:24PM
It’s the final day of class before the doors shut for good at Ninnis Driving School, and Mel Ninnis is going out in style.
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Published October 11th, 2007 - 2:56PM
The main things Randy Stiffler remembers about life on the streets of Parkland are “being dirty, being cold.”
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