Tacoma ( , ) is a mid-sized
urban port city in and the county seat
of Pierce County,
Washington
, United
States
. The city is on Washington's Puget Sound
, southwest of Seattle
, northeast
of the state capital, Olympia
, and northwest of Mount Rainier
National Park
. The population was 193,556, according to
the
2000 census, while
the
Census Bureau
estimated its population at 197,181 in 2008. Tacoma is the
second-largest city in the Puget Sound area and the third largest
in the state.
Tacoma
adopted its name after the nearby Mount Rainier
, originally called Mount Tacoma or Mount
Tahoma. It is known as the "City of Destiny" because the
area was chosen to be the western terminus of the
Northern Pacific Railroad in the
late 1800s.
The decision of the railroad was influenced by Tacoma's neighboring
Commencement
Bay
. By connecting the bay with the railroad
Tacoma’s motto became “When rails meet sails.” Today Commencement
Bay serves the
Port of Tacoma, a
center of
international trade on
the
Pacific Coast.
Like most central cities, Tacoma suffered a prolonged decline in
the mid-20th century as a result of
suburbanization and divestment. Recently the
city has been undergoing a renaissance, investing in the downtown
core to establish the
University of Washington,
Tacoma;
Tacoma Link,
the first modern electric
light rail
service in the state; various art and history museums; and a
restored inlet, the
Thea Foss
Waterway.
With a long history of blue-collar
labor politics — from the railroad
workers of the 1800s, to the
longshoremen of the 20th century, to the
Labor Ready workers of today — Tacoma
has long been known for its rough, gritty image.
Tacoma-Pierce County has been named one of the most livable areas
in the country. Tacoma was also recently listed as the 19th most
walkable city in the country. In contrast, the city is also ranked
as the most stressed-out city in the country in a 2004 survey. In
2006, women's magazine Self named Tacoma the "Most Sexually Healthy
City" in the United States.
History
Tacoma was inhabited for thousands of years by
American Indians,
predominantly the
Puyallup people,
who lived in settlements on the delta of the
Puyallup River and called the area
Squa-szucks. It was visited by European and American explorers,
including
George Vancouver and
Charles Wilkes, who named many of the
coastal landmarks.
19th century
In 1852 a Swede named Nicolas Delin constructed a sawmill powered
by water on a creek near the head of Commencement Bay, but the
small settlement that grew up around it was abandoned during the
Indian War of 1855-1856. In 1864, pioneer and postmaster Job Carr,
a Civil War veteran and land speculator who hoped to profit from
the selection of Commencement Bay as the terminus of the
Transcontinental Railroad, built a cabin (a replica of Job Carr's
cabin, which also served as Tacoma's first post office, was erected
in "Old Town" in 2000 near the original site), and later sold most
of his claim to developer Morton McCarver (1807-1875), who named
his project Tacoma City.
The name derived from the indigenous name for
Mount
Rainier, deriving from the Puyallup tacobet,
"mother of waters".
Tacoma was incorporated on
November 12,
1875. Its hopes to be the "City of Destiny"
were stimulated by selection in 1873 as the western terminus of the
Northern Pacific Railroad,
thanks to lobbying by McCarver, future mayor
John Wilson Sprague, and others. The
transcontinental link was effected in 1887, but the railroad built
its depot on "New Tacoma", two miles (3 km) south of the
Carr-McCarver development. The two communities grew together and
joined. The population grew from 1,098 in 1880 to 36,006 in 1890.
Rudyard Kipling visited Tacoma in
1889 and said it was "literally staggering under a boom of the
boomiest".
George Francis Train was a
resident for a few years in the late 1800s. In 1880, he staged a
global circumnavigation starting and ending in Tacoma to promote
the city. A plaque in downtown Tacoma marks the start/finish
line.
What came
to be known as "Tacoma method" was used in November 1885 to expel
several thousand Chinese
peaceably
living in the city. As described by the account prepared by the
Chinese Reconciliation Project, on the morning of November 3, 1885, "several
hundred men, led by the mayor and other city officials, evicted the
Chinese from their homes, corralled them at 7th Street and Pacific
Avenue, marched them to the railway station at Lakeview and forced
them aboard the morning train to Portland, Oregon
. The next day two Chinese settlements were
burned to the ground."
The discovery of gold in the
Klondike in 1898 led Tacoma's prominence
in the region to be eclipsed by the booming development of
Seattle.
20th century
Downtown, early 20th century
During a
30-day power shortage in the winter of 1929/1930, Tacoma was
provided with electricity from the engines of the aircraft carrier
USS
Lexington
.
In 1935 Tacoma received national attention when
George Weyerhaeuser, nine-year-old son
of prominent lumber industry executive J.P. Weyerhaeuser, was
kidnapped while walking home from school.
FBI
agents from Portland handled the case, in which
payment of a ransom of $200,000 secured release of the
victim. Four persons were apprehended and convicted. The
last to be released was paroled from
McNeil Island in 1963; George Weyerhaeuser
went on to become chairman of the Board of the
Weyerhaeuser Company.
In 1951, an investigation by a state legislative committee revealed
widespread corruption in Tacoma's government, which had been
organized commission-style since 1910. Voters approved a
mayor/city-manager system in 1952.
Tacoma featured prominently in the
garage
rock sound of the mid-1960s with bands including
The Wailers and
The Sonics; the
surf
rock band
The Ventures were also
from Tacoma.
The first local referendums in the U.S. on computerized voting
occurred in Tacoma in 1982 and 1987. On both occasions, voters
rejected 3-1 the computer voting systems that local officials
sought to purchase. The campaigns, organized by Eleanora
Ballasiotes, a conservative Republican, focused on the
vulnerabilities of computers to fraud.
In 1998, Tacoma installed a high-speed fiber optic network
throughout the community. The municipally owned power company wired
the city of 187,000 people, making Tacoma America's #1 wired
city.
Tacoma struggled with crime in its Hilltop neighborhood in the
1980s and early 1990s. The problems have declined in recent years
as neighborhoods have enacted community policing and other
policies. Mayor
Bill Baarsma is a
member of the
Mayors Against Illegal
Guns Coalition, a
bi-partisan group
with a stated goal of "making the public safer by getting illegal
guns off the streets."
The coalition is co-chaired by Boston
Mayor
Thomas Menino and New York City
Mayor Michael
Bloomberg.
21st century
On
April 26, 2003,
Tacoma's chief of police David Brame shot his wife and then killed
himself in Gig
Harbor, Washington
. His wife died from injuries a few days
later.
In 2004, Tacoma was ranked among the top 30 Most Livable
Communities in 2004, in an annual survey conducted by the Partners
for Livable Communities.
Downtown Revival
Hotel Bostwick, located in
Tacoma
Beginning in the early 1990s, Tacoma has taken steps to revitalize
itself and its image, especially downtown.
The
University
of Washington
established a branch campus in Tacoma in
1990. The same year,
Union
Station was restored.
The Museum of Glass
opened in downtown Tacoma in 2002, showing glass art from the region and around the world.
It includes a glassblowing studio.
Tacoma's
downtown Cultural District is the site of the Washington State History
Museum (1996) and the Tacoma Art Museum
(2003). America's Car Museum is currently
breaking ground in Tacoma.
The glass and steel Greater Tacoma Convention and Trade
Center
opened in November 2004.
Downtown Tacoma has a thriving Theatre District, anchored by the
89-year-old Pantages Theater. The
Broadway Center for the
Performing Arts manages the Pantages, the Rialto Theater, and
the Theatre on the Square. Other attractions include the Grand
Cinema and the Temple Theatre.
The area around the Theatre District is the center of Tacoma's
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender
culture. Three of the city's gay bars are here as well as the
Rainbow Center.
Geography
Tacoma is at (47.241371, -122.459389). Its elevation is .
According to the
United
States Census Bureau, the city has an area of . of it is land
and of it (20.01%) is water.
Tacoma straddles the neighboring Commencement Bay with several
smaller cities surrounding it. Large areas of Tacoma have excellent
views of Mt. Rainier.
The city
is near several military installations, including Fort Lewis
and McChord Air Force Base
.
Surrounding Cities
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 193,556 people, 76,152
households, and 45,919 families residing in the city. The
population density was 3,864.9 people per
square mile (1,492.3/km²). There were 81,102 housing units at an
average density of 1,619.4/sq mi (625.3/km²). The racial
makeup of the city was 60.25%
White, 12.17%
African American, 2.01%
Native American, 8.23%
Asian, 0.93%
Pacific Islander, 3.02% from
other races, and 6.28% from two
or more races.
Hispanic or
Latino of any race were 7.11%
of the population.
13.2% were of German,
7.7% Irish, 6.8% English, 5.5% Norwegian and 5.4% American
ancestry according to Census
2000. 83.9% spoke
English, 4.9%
Spanish, 1.8%
Korean, 1.7%
Mon-Khmer or
Cambodian, 1.7%
Vietnamese and 1.2%
German as their first language.
There were 76,152 households out of which 30.9% had children under
the age of 18 living with them, 41.6% were
married couples living together, 13.9% had a female
householder with no husband present, and 39.7% were non-families.
31.7% of all households were made up of individuals and 10.4% had
someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average
household size was 2.45 and the average family size was 3.10.
In the city the population was spread out with 25.8% under 18,
10.4% from 18 to 24, 31.6% from 25 to 44, 20.3% from 45 to 64, and
11.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34. For
every 100 females there were 95.2 males. For every 100 females age
18 and over, there were 92.3 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $37,879, and the
median income for a family was $45,567. Males had a median income
of $35,820, versus $27,697 for females. The
per capita income for the city was
$19,130. About 11.4% of families and 15.9% of the population were
below the
poverty line, including 20.6%
of those under the age of 18 and 10.9% of those 65 and older.
Government
The government of the city of Tacoma operates under a
council-manager system. The
city
council consists of an elected mayor (
Bill Baarsma) and eight elected council
members, five from individual city council districts and three
others from the city at-large. All serve four-year terms and are
elected in odd-numbered years. The council adopts and amends city
laws, approves a two-year budget, establishes city policy, appoints
citizens to boards and commissions, and performs other actions. The
council also meets in "standing committees", which break down the
council's work into more defined areas, such as "Environment &
Public Works", "Neighborhoods & Housing", and "Public Safety
& Human Services". The council meets as a whole most Tuesdays
at 5:00 p.m. in the council chambers at 747 Market St. Most
meetings are open to the public and provide for public input.
Normal day-to-day operations of the city government are
administered by the
city
manager, Eric Anderson, who is appointed by the city
council.
Commerce and industry
[[Image:Commencementbay.jpg|thumb|left|The
Port of Tacoma,
on Commencement
Bay, is one of the largest seaports in the Pacific Northwest]]
Tacoma is the home of several international companies including,
True Blue Inc. (formerly
Labor
Ready).
Beginning in the 1930s, Tacoma became known for the "Tacoma Aroma",
a distinctive, acrid odor produced by
paper
manufacturing on the industrial tide flats. In the late 1990s,
Simpson Tacoma Kraft reduced total sulfur emissions by 90%. This
largely eliminated the problem; where once the
aroma was ever-present, it is now only noticeable
occasionally, primarily when the wind is coming from the
east.
U.S. Oil and Refining operates an
oil refinery on the tide flats in the
Port of Tacoma. Built in Tacoma in 1952, it
currently refines 39,000
barrels of
petroleum per day.
The
Tacoma Mall is the largest shopping
center in Tacoma. It is owned by
Simon Property Group.
Anchor tenants
include JC Penney, Sears, Macy's
, and
Nordstrom
.
An economic setback for the city occurred in September 2009 when
Russell Investments, which has
been located in downtown Tacoma since its inception in 1936,
announced it was moving its headquarters to Seattle along with
several hundred white collar jobs.
Urban form and transport
City of Tacoma, from the 2001
Comprehensive Plan
Tacoma's system of transportation is based primarily on the
automobile. The majority of the city has
a system of
gridded streets oriented in
relation to A Street (one block east of Pacific Avenue) and Sixth
Avenue, both beginning in
downtown Tacoma. Within the
city, numbered streets run east to west and are labeled "North" or
"South" according to their relationship with Sixth Avenue or
Division Street. (West of Division, Sixth Avenue is the
lowest-numbered street.) North- and south-running streets are given
a name or a letter, and are also labeled "North" or "South" in
relation to Sixth Avenue. This can lead to confusion, as many named
streets intersect streets of the same number in both North and
South Tacoma. For example, the intersection of South 11th Street
and Union Avenue is just ten blocks south of North 11th Street and
Union Avenue. To the east of the Thea Foss waterway and A Street,
streets are similarly divided into "East" and "Northeast", with 0
Street East being equivalent to the Pierce-King line. "Northeast"
covers a small wedge of Tacoma and unincorporated Pierce County
lying on the hill across the tideflats from downtown.
This numeric system
extends to the furthest reaches of Pierce County, except for the
Key
Peninsula
, which
retains the north-south streets but chooses the Pierce-Kitsap line
as the zero point for east-west streets.In portions of the
city dating back to the Tacoma Streetcar Period (1888-1938), denser
mixed use business districts exist alongside
single family homes. Twelve such
districts have active, city-recognized business associations and
hold "small town"-style parades and other festivals. The Proctor,
Old Town, Dome,
Sixth Avenue,
Stadium and Lincoln Business Districts are some of the more
prominent and popular of these and coordinate their efforts to
redevelop urban villages through the
Cross
District Association of Tacoma. In newer portions of the city
to the west and south, residential
cul-de-sacs, four-lane collector roads and indoor
shopping centers are more commonplace.
The
dominant intercity transportation link between Tacoma and other
parts of the Puget Sound is Interstate 5, which links Tacoma
with Seattle to the north
and Portland,
Oregon, to the south. State Route 16 runs along a
concrete viaduct through Tacoma's Nalley Valley, connecting
Interstate 5 with Central and West Tacoma, the Tacoma
Narrows Bridge
, and the Kitsap Peninsula
. Seattle-Tacoma International
Airport
lies north, in the city of SeaTac
.
Public transport
Tacoma's alternative transportation services include buses,
commuter rail,
light rail, and
ferries.
Public bus service is provided by Pierce Transit, which serves Tacoma and
Pierce
County. Pierce Transit operates a total of 55 bus
routes, using mostly buses powered by
compressed natural gas. Most bus
service operates at 30-minute frequencies on weekdays, some routes
once an hour, while three heavily-ridden "trunk" routes are served
every 15 minutes on weekdays and every half hour on weekends.
Sound Transit, the regional transit
authority, provides weekday peak-direction
Sounder Commuter Rail service and
express bus service to and from Seattle seven days a week.
(Service
to and from Olympia is serviced by Pierce and Intercity Transit.) Sound Transit has also
established Tacoma Link
light rail, a 2.5 km (1.6-mile)
free electric streetcar line linking Tacoma Dome
Station with the University of Washington,
Tacoma, Tacoma's Museum District, and the Theater
District. Expansion of the city's rail transit system
(either in the form of electric streetcars or light rail) is under
consideration by the city of Tacoma and Pierce Transit, and is
supported by a local grassroots organization,
Tacoma Streetcar.
The
Washington State Ferries
system, which has a dock at Point Defiance
, provides ferry access to Tahlequah
at the southern tip of Vashon Island
, typically on the ferry MV Rhododendron.
Greyhound service is also accessible
via Tacoma Dome Station. An
Amtrak station
one block east on Puyallup Avenue serves the
Cascades and
Coast Starlight routes.
Tacoma highways
Seven highways end in or pass through Tacoma:
I-5,
I-705,
SR 7,
SR 16,
SR 163,
SR 167, and
SR 509.
Intercity rail transportation
Amtrak, the national passenger rail system,
provides service to Tacoma.
Amtrak train 11, the southbound Coast Starlight, is scheduled to depart
Tacoma at 10:31 a.m. with service to Olympia-Lacey, Portland, Sacramento
, Emeryville, California
(with bus connection to San Francisco
), and Los Angeles
. Amtrak train 14, the northbound Coast
Starlight, is scheduled to depart Tacoma at 7:11 p.m. daily with
service to Seattle.
Amtrak
Cascades trains, operating as far
north as Vancouver, BC and as far
south as Eugene,
Oregon
, serve Tacoma several times daily in both
directions.
Public utilities
Tacoma’s relationship with
public
utilities extends back to 1893. At that time the city was
undergoing a boom in population, causing it to exceed the available
amount of fresh water supplied by
Charles
Wright’s Tacoma Light & Water Company. In response to both
this demand and a growing desire to have local public control over
the utility system, the city council put up a public vote to
acquire and expand the private utility. The measure passed on
July 1,
1893, with 3,195
in favor of acquiring the utility system and 1,956 voting against.
Since then,
Tacoma Public
Utilities (TPU) has grown from a small water and light utility
to be the largest department in the city’s government, employing
about 1,200 people.
Tacoma Power, a division of TPU,
provides residents of Tacoma and several bordering municipalities
with electrical power generated by eight hydroelectric dams located
on the
Skokomish River and
elsewhere. Environmentalists, fishermen, and the Skokomish Indian
Tribe have criticized TPU's operation of Cushman Dam on the North
Fork of the Skokomish River; the tribe's $6 billion claim was
denied by the U.S. Supreme court in January 2006. The capacity of
Tacoma’s
hydroelectric system as of
2004 was 713,000
kilowatts, or about 50% of
the demand made up by TPU’s customers (the rest is purchased from
other utilities). According to TPU, hydroelectricity provides about
87% of Tacoma’s power; coal 3%; natural gas 1%; nuclear 9%; and
biomass and wind at less than 1%. Tacoma Power also operates the
Click! Network, a municipally-owned cable television
and internet service. The residential cost per kilowatt hour of
electricity is just over 6 cents.
Tacoma Water provides customers in its service area with water from
the
Green River Watershed.
As of 2004, Tacoma Water provided water services to 93,903
customers. The average annual cost for residential supply was
$257.84.
Tacoma Rail, initially a municipally
owned street railway line running to the tideflats, was converted
to a common-carrier rail switching utility. Tacoma Rail is
self-supporting and employs over 90 people.
In addition to municipal garbage collection, Tacoma offers
commingled
recycling services for paper,
cardboard, plastics, and metals.
Parks
Point
Defiance Park, one of the largest urban parks in the country, is
located in Tacoma. Scenic Five Mile Drive allows access to many
of the park's attractions, such as Owen Beach, Camp Six, Fort
Nisqually
, and the
Point
Defiance Zoo & Aquarium
. There are many historic structures within
the park, such as the pagoda near the park's entrance.
Another large park in Tacoma is Wapato Park, which has a lake and
walking trails that circle the lake. Wapato is located in the south
end of Tacoma, at Sheridan and 72nd St.
Titlow Beach
, located at the end of 6th Avenue, is a popular
scuba diving area.
Wright Park, located near downtown, is a large, English-style park
designed in the late 1800s by
E.O.
Schwagerl and Ebenezer Rhys Roberts.
It
contains Wright
Park Arboretum
and the W.
W. Seymour
Botanical Conservatory.
Jefferson Park in North Tacoma is the location of a new
sprayground; an area designed to be a safe and unique play area
where water is sprayed from structures or ground sprays and then
drained away before it can accumulate.
Frost Park in downtown Tacoma is often utilized for sidewalk chalk
contests.
Historic landmarks
Engine
House No.
9 is a fire station built
in 1907. The building was placed on the
National Register of
Historic Places in 1975. Currently, the building houses a
pub which
brews its
own beer.
Stadium High
School
, part of the Tacoma School District and setting for
the movie 10 Things I
Hate About You starring Heath
Ledger.
Fireboat
No.
1 was built in 1929 for the Port of Tacoma by the
Coastline Shipbuilding Company. After 54 years of service in
waterfront fire protection,
harbor security patrols,
search and rescue missions, and
water pollution control,
Fireboat
No. 1 was put up on a permanent dry berth at a public
beach near Tacoma’s Old Town neighborhood. She is one of only five
fireboats designated as a
National Historic Landmark.
Visitors are able to walk around her exterior, but her interior is
closed to the public.
William Ross
Rust House
- Colonial / Classic Revival (1905) - Ambrose
J. Russell (Architect), Charles Miller (Contractor)
Murray
Morgan Bridge
- 1911 steel lift bridge across the Thea Foss Waterway; it is currently
closed to all automobile traffic due to its deteriorating
condition, but may be rebuilt in the future. It is still
open to pedestrians and bicyclists.
Education
Tacoma's main public school district is
Tacoma Public Schools.
The district contains
36 elementary schools, eleven middle schools, five high schools,
one alternative high school, a Science and Math Institute (SAMI),
and one school of the arts (SOTA
).
Henry Foss High School
operates an International Baccalaureate program. Sheridan
Elementary School operated three foreign language immersion
programs (Spanish, French, and Japanese)
Mount Tahoma High School opened a
brand new building in South Tacoma in the fall of 2004.
Stadium High
School and Wilson High School
were remodeled/refurbished and reopened in September 2006.
Lincoln High
School
reopened in the fall of 2007 after a $75 million
renovation and expansion.
Private
schools in the area include the Annie Wright School and Bellarmine Preparatory School
.
Tacoma's
institutions of higher learning include the University
of Puget Sound
, Tacoma Community College
, Bates
Technical College, The Evergreen State College
Tacoma Campus, Northwest Baptist Seminary, and
University of Washington
Tacoma. Pacific Lutheran University
is located in Parkland
, just south of the city; nearby Lakewood
is the home of Clover Park
Technical College
and Pierce College
.
Cultural attractions
The
Museum of
Glass boasts an iconic structure standing near the Thea
Foss Waterway; the steel cone of the hot shop is one of the most
recognizable structures in the city.
Tacoma Art
Museum was founded in 1935 and reopened in 2003 in a new
building on Pacific Avenue in Tacoma - now one of three
organizations forming the "museum district" (others are Museum of
Glass and Washington
State History Museum). It is considered a model for
mid-sized regional museums.
The
Broadway
Center for the Performing Arts is the home to three theaters,
two of which are on the National Historic Register. Performing
within the three theaters are several performing arts
organizations, including the Tacoma Opera, Tacoma Symphony
Orchestra, Northwest Sinfionetta, Tacoma City Ballet, Tacoma
Concert Band, Tacoma Philharmonic, Tacoma Youth Symphony, Puget
Sound Revels and Theatre Northwest.
Shakespeare in the Parking Lot celebrates their 10th anniversary in
2009. Their motto is "taking the fear out of Shakespeare".
www.SITL.org. They offer
both educational opportunities and inspired theater in and around
Tacoma.
Tacoma
hosts part of the annual four-part Daffodil Parade, which takes place
every April in Tacoma, Puyallup, Sumner
, and Orting
.
The Tacoma
farmers' market runs
every May through September, every Thursday, in the Theatre
District.
Mass media
The city's major daily
newspaper is
The News Tribune, a
subsidiary of
McClatchy
Newspapers since 1986. Its circulation is about 128,000
(144,000 on Sundays), making it the third-largest newspaper in the
state of Washington. A daily newspaper has been in circulation in
Tacoma since 1883. Between 1907 and 1918, three dailies were
published:
The Tacoma Ledger,
The News, and
The Tacoma Tribune.
Local papers include the
Tacoma
Weekly, the
Tacoma Daily
Index and the South Sound alternative newsweekly
Weekly Volcano.
Professional sports teams
Tacoma Rainiers
Tacoma Jazz
Tacoma Tide
The city has struggled to keep a minor league
hockey franchise. The
Tacoma Rockets of the
WHL were lost to relocation and moved
to Kelowna, British Columbia. The
Tacoma Sabercats of the former
West Coast Hockey League closed due
to financial woes.
The Tacoma Dome still hosts traveling sports and other events, such
as pro wrestling, figure skating tours, and the Harlem Globetrotters. At one
point, the Tacoma Dome was home to a professional
indoor soccer team, the
Tacoma Stars.
For the 1994-1995 season, the Seattle SuperSonics played in the Tacoma
Dome while the Seattle
Center Coliseum
was renovated (and renamed KeyArena). The Tacoma Dome also hosted the 1988 and
1989 Women's NCAA Final Four. In 2007, the Tacoma Dome will host
four home games of the
Tacoma Jazz, who
recently replaced the
Tacoma Jets on the
IBL schedule.
Noteworthy Tacomans
Tacoma has been the home to many athletes, artists, and performers.
See
People from
Tacoma and
Tacoma
musical groups.
Influence
Tacoma was 36th in “50 Smart Places to Live,” a ranking by
Kiplinger's Personal
Finance (2006)
Toyota named a popular line of
pickup trucks the
Toyota Tacoma after the city.
Richard Brautigan wrote of his
Tacoma childhood in his autobiographical short stories "Corporal,"
"The Armoured Car," "The Auction," and "The Ghost Children of
Tacoma," as well as his last finished novel
So The Wind Won't Blow It All
Away.
Neko Case's '"Thrice All American" (on the
album
Furnace Room
Lullaby) is an ode to Tacoma, which she considers her
hometown. Tacoma is also the subject of the
Jason Webley song "How Big Is Tacoma?" and
Girl Trouble's "My Hometown".
Neighborhoods
Sister cities
See also
References
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- See, generally,
- Sound Politics: Garbage In, Garbage Out
- Greater Tacoma
Convention and Trade Center
- Broadway Center For the Performing Arts
- http://www.rainbowcntr.org
- http://www.thenewstribune.com/topstory/story/873008.html
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