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出版Arcadia Publishing, 2006-05-17
主題Photography / Subjects & Themes / HistoricalPhotography / Subjects & Themes / RegionalTravel / PictorialsHistory / United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (OR, WA)
ISBN14396310699781439631065
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=lHQ3s2_4Re8C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In 1865, Job Carr paddled a canoe to his new homestead on a small harbor that would become Old Tacoma. The areas notorious reputationas The Wildest Port North of San Franciscos Barbary Coasthaunted it for decades after the tall-masted schooners, sailors, brothels, and saloons were gone. Situated on the deepwater shoreline of Commencement Bay to ship timber from the vast tracts surrounding it, Old Tacoma was bypassed by the Northern Pacific terminus in favor of New Tacoma a few miles away. Settled by waves of Scandinavian and Croatian immigrants to work the mills and purse seiners, Old Tacoma became an isolated community. Though industry, shipbuilding, and timber mills gave way to commerce and recreation, the community of Old Tacoma still retains the unique flavor of its colorful past.