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Top of the Ocean
Thirty Years of Dining and Dancing The Top of the Ocean, 2211 Ruston Way in Tacoma, was a popular restaurant and nightclub resembling a luxury ocean liner, built on pilings along the shore of...
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Clinkerdagger, Bickerstaff & Pett’s Public House
Clinkerdagger, Bickerstaff & Pett’s Public House located at 3327 Ruston Way opened in March of 1972. The $350,000 “pub” style restaurant was built on pilings over Commencement Bay. Red Baron,...
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Charles Wilkes
On May 11, 1841, the U.S. Navy ships Vincennes and Porpoise, commanded by Lt. Charles Wilkes (1798-1877), drop anchor in southern Puget Sound, near the mouth of Sequalitchew Creek and the Hudson’s Bay...
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DuPont – Who Knew?
Fort Nisqually was an important fur trading and farming post of the Hudson’s Bay Company in the Puget Sound area of what is now DuPont (near Lakewood), Washington and was part of the Hudson’s Bay...
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Really Good News …
We’ve been searching, searching, searching … for missing classmates, and we’ve found some. Yeah!!!!!!!!!!! Included on the “found” list now are: We hope to see them all at the September 12th...
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Remembering Betty
Dear Friends, In late November 2014, I finally located a good phone number for Dr. Michael Mottet (Betty Crawford Mottet’s husband). I called and left a message. I explained who I was and why I was...
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Ahhhh the ’36 Buick
William “Bill” Schwer shared this photo of his beautifully restored 1936 Buick. Nice job Bill. The Clover Park High School parking permit sticker was on the windshield of the car when Bill was going...
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A Living Cloverleaf
February 28, 1941: For the 1941 “Klahowya,” Clover Park High School yearbook. Class of 1941 forms a cloverleaf on school lawn. Note that it used to be OK to park your car on Gravelly Lake Drive....
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Lakewood High School
From the first volume of the Lakewood newspaper printed July 16, 1937. The story is about the new Lakewood High School and written by School Superintendent Arthur George (A.G. Hudtloff). Construction...
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50 Year Reunion Clover Park High School Class of 1965 Saturday, September 12, 2015 Tacoma Country and Golf Club 13204 Country Club Drive Lakewood, WA 98498 6 p.m.-11 p.m. 6-7 p.m. No Host...
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