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    A poster from the 'Wild Rainier' ad campaign from Rainier Brewery is part of the Washington State History Museum's exhibit 'Icons of Washington History.' The exhibit includes one of the original beer bottle costumes featured in the advertisements. (IMAGE COURTESY WASHINGTON STATE HISTORY MUSEUM)
    Definitely Famous: Museum exhibit gathers state icons under...
    By Todd Matthews • December 3, 2009 12:00 am

    Imagine you are asked to tell Washington State’s history through images and artifacts. What would you include? An early oil…

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    (PHOTO BY TODD MATTHEWS)
    Tacoma City Council approves Murray Morgan Bridge agreement
    By Todd Matthews • December 2, 2009 12:00 am

    Tacoma City Council Tuesday approved a resolution that authorizes a supplement to the turn-back agreement that transfers ownership of the…

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    (PHOTO BY TODD MATTHEWS)
    City Council to vote Dec. 1 on Murray...
    By Todd Matthews • November 25, 2009 12:00 am

    Tacoma City Council is expected Dec. 1 to vote on a resolution to approve a turn-back agreement that would transfer…

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    (PHOTO BY TODD MATTHEWS)
    City Council to vote on Cain Promenade, Gilbert...
    By Todd Matthews • November 23, 2009 12:00 am

    Tacoma City Council is scheduled Nov. 24 to consider a resolution that would name a pocket park located north of…

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    (PHOTO BY TODD MATTHEWS)
    Tacoma closer to owning Murray Morgan Bridge
    By Todd Matthews • November 19, 2009 12:00 am

    Tacoma City Council’s environment and public works committee this evening made a “do-pass” recommendation of an agreement that would revert…

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    A 1910 Northern Pacific dining car is loaded onto a truck in Easton, Wash., on its way to Tacoma in 2006. (PHOTO COURTESY DAVE BURNS)
    Covered storage space needed for 1910 dining car...
    By Todd Matthews • November 17, 2009 12:00 am

    Thankfully for local history buffs, Tacoma resident David Burns likes old trains. Three years ago, he rescued an abandoned 1910…

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    'Roller coaster' economy taps Pierce County PALS budget
    'Roller coaster' economy taps Pierce County PALS budget
    By Todd Matthews • November 3, 2009 12:00 am

    Pierce County’s Planning and Land Services (PALS) director told councilmembers Thursday that revenue is expected to be down 2.5 percent…

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    (PHOTO BY TODD MATTHEWS)
    City Hall park to be named for late...
    By Todd Matthews • October 29, 2009 12:00 am

    The City of Tacoma’s Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) yesterday approved a recommendation to name a pocket park adjacent to City…

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    (PHOTO COURTESY TACOMA HISTORICAL SOCIETY)
    'Goddess of Commerce' project remains in limbo
    By Todd Matthews • October 28, 2009 12:00 am

    Supporters of a plan to re-create the so-called ‘Goddess of Commerce’ — a statue that once represented Tacoma’s economy, adorned…

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    The Winthrop Hotel in downtown Tacoma. (FILE PHOTO BY TODD MATTHEWS)
    Living On Edge: Inside the Winthrop arson investigation
    By Todd Matthews • October 23, 2009 12:00 am

    For most residents of the Winthrop apartment building in downtown Tacoma, just living day-to-day is hard enough. The 12-story, 84-year-old…

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    (IMAGE COURTESY SOUND TRANSIT)
    Sound Transit images show Sounder D to M...
    By Todd Matthews • October 19, 2009 12:00 am

    Sound Transit’s proposed design renderings for connecting D Street to M Street through Tacoma’s Dome District and connecting Sounder service…

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    Graham resident and historian Lawrence D. "Andy" Anderson describes Kapowsin's early years to architectural historians Katie Chase and Susan Johnson. (PHOTO BY TODD MATTHEWS)
    A Conversation with Pierce County's History Detectives
    By Todd Matthews • October 16, 2009 12:00 am

    Since the beginning of September, Katie Chase and Susan Johnson, two architectural historians at Artifacts Consulting in Tacoma, have driven…

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    Katie Chase and Susan Johnson, architectural historians at Artifacts Consulting in Tacoma, are currently working on a survey of historic properties and sites in Pierce County. "This might be the first time the county's history is down in one document," says Chase. "I don't want to miss anything." (PHOTO BY TODD MATTHEWS)
    Pierce County's History Detectives
    By Todd Matthews • October 15, 2009 12:00 am

    On a bright and cloudless Tuesday morning in October, Susan Johnson and Katie Chase, two architectural historians, walked down a…

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