New Exhibit from Tacoma Historical Society
Feeling nostalgic about Tacoma’s bygone days? Learn more about Tacoma’s past from the Tacoma Historical Society’s new exhibit, Passenger Trains of Puget Sound: 1900-1970. Held at their Exhibit Center, Passenger Trains is curated by Tacoma resident and Northern Pacific expert Jim Fredrickson.
Tacoma Historical Society will also be co-hosting a walking tour in mid-July in the historic Hilltop district with Historic Tacoma. Stay tuned for more information.
Details
Passenger Trains of Puget Sound: 1900-1970
Exhibit Center
747 Broadway
Filed under: Arts
2 comments
T The Gulag July 3, 2008
It must correspond with this year’s Northern Pacific Railroad Historical Society convention being held in Tacoma at the Hotel Murano, July 16’th-19’th. Sorry, you have to be a society member to purchase tickets, but there might be some residual activities that the general public can attend.
The theme is “Jim Fredrickson Country”; a life long Tacoman (lives in Proctor) and career Northern Pacific Railroad telegraher. His photo collection (from Tacoma and the northwest, starting in the 40’s)numbers in the tens of thousands; and did you know he has an old Tacoma Union Station sign (just like the two that are currently there) in his backyard!
O OddTodd July 8, 2008
i was fortunate enough to meet jim fredrickson and tacoma historical society president jim hoard recently to discuss the exhibit for an article in the tacoma daily index:
http://tacomadailyindex.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=88&cat=23&id=1254433&more=0
lots of good stuff there. check it out while you can . . . —TODD