Tacoma Mayor Marilyn Strickland and a committee of 27 community leaders will join with members of the public on a…
Organizers of a waterfront park that aims to commemorate the events of Nov. 3, 1885, when a group that included…
Downtown Tacoma’s Business Improvement Area (BIA) announced today it will host five lunchtime public walking tours in October as part…
If the City of Tacoma has its way, passengers riding Link may soon have another option for boarding and exiting…
Tacoma City Council’s decision Tuesday to accept ownership of the Murray Morgan Bridge from the Washington State Department of Transportation…
Local history buffs will tell you that downtown Tacoma’s oldest buildings are more than bricks and mortar. Some carry the…
The University of Washington Tacoma announced Tuesday it will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony Sept. 23 at 10 a.m. to mark…
!["The nice thing about a [passenger] train is you can see what the country looks like -- you can look right out into people's backyards," says historian, author, and retired railroad employee Jim Fredrickson, who has amassed a collection of passenger train memorabilia. (PHOTO BY TODD MATTHEWS)](https://www.tacomadailyindex.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/070208_passenger_train1_web.jpg)
In the early-1940s, as a teenager at Stadium High School, Jim Fredrickson was a common fixture near Union Station in…
You may know The Maltese Falcon and its fictional detective Sam Spade, later played in the film version by Humphrey…
Attention local history buffs: You might want to clear some shelf space in your home. The Tacoma Historical Society has…
When will Tacoma’s old dining car find a permanent home? That question has been on Dave Burns’s mind for awhile….
The tones are softer, the colors muted, but it’s all there. Arranged on a multi-paneled carousel inside the Tacoma Historical…
More than 200 people gathered downtown yesterday to dedicate a wing of the federal courthouse at Union Station to the…
