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Nov. 20, 2008 at 5:00pm

As Seen On FeedTacoma! Tacoma Dome Book

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Just a note about a project I'm working on involving great Tacoma civic projects. You've probably noticed images coming through the Feed Photostream scanned from a book I picked up recently celebrating the completion of the Tacoma Dome. Not many recent civic projects come to mind as significant as the Tacoma Dome. It's hard for me to believe it's been three decades since the effort to build the Dome began, but as is pointed out in the book - it was actually much longer in the making than that.

More to come...

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by Dave_L
on 11/20/2008 @ 5:23pm		Yeah! I'm looking forward to your installments on the woodshed, Morgan! Watching it go up over time was really something. Though as you know, the neighborhood it eliminated is a melancholy chapter in the story.

by morgan
on 11/20/2008 @ 8:11pm		Thanks Dave_L. Nice avatar!

For those that haven't, there are some slivers of the old Hawthorne neighborhood still down there. Pretty interesting history to say the least. Ah, progress.

by Erik
on 11/20/2008 @ 8:33pm		Those are great pictures. You should post more of them.

by fredo
on 12/8/2008 @ 8:37pm		When they were preparing the site for the dome there were a lot of little craftsman style homes. The better ones were jacked up and moved to vacant lots on the hilltop or on McKinley hill. I think they were selling for $2000 or less. The rest were just bulldozed down.

I went down there and poked around a bit on one of the last days and found some interesting old stuff that had been left behind and was destined for the land fill. Within a few minutes, Tacoma's finest were on the scene warning me to drop everything.

Tacoma got an awesome arena out of this project, but I think we lost something, too. The Hawthorne neighborhood could have been gentrified and made to resemble what we have at Old Town.

Oh, if your're driving down S. 19th Street west of Allenmore hospital you'll see one of the largest buildings salvaged from the Hawthorne neighborhood. It's a flat roofed FLWright'ish style office building on the north side of the street.
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