Page 10 - 1924 Booklet
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1924 Tacoma Timeline
WA State Population: 1,467,000 Tacoma Population: 96,965
19-year-old Ben Cheney moves to Tacoma and takes a stenographer job
with a local lumber company. In 1936, he would start his own company
with the first of millions of Cheney Studs being shipped in 1945.
March 15: The first patients are admitted to the new U.S.
Veterans Hospital at American Lake.
April 29: Schoenfeld Furniture moves to 14th and Pacific, where its
name would be a part of the Tacoma skyline for the next 72 years.
May 26: Aaron Robbins, owner of the Olympic Ice Cream
Company, dedicates its new factory on E. 25th Street. His
son Irv would co-found Baskin-Robbins in 1945.
June 11: Commencement exercises for the College of Puget Sound
were held in Jones Hall on the new campus on North Warner Street.
(Franke Tobey Jones had given $200,000 toward the construction of
the building that would be named after her late husband.
July 16: The Franke Tobey Jones Home cornerstone was laid on a
spectacular five-acre site with views of Commencement Bay and
Mount Rainier. With a wheelbarrow and spade, Franke, at the age
of 80, presided over the ceremony.
July 4: Estimated 35,000 people watch Independence Day
fireworks from the Stadium Bowl.
July 26: First nine holes of the Fircrest Golf Club open.
The course is completed the following year.
September 15: William Jennings Bryan addresses an
audience at the First Methodist Church.
