Page 24 - 1924 Booklet

1924 Business Starts

Ace Hardware

Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Simon & Schuster

Zale Corporation
Associated Wholesale Grocers (AWG)

Laidlaw (transportation)

Business that Opened in Western Washington in the 1920s

 Seattle Post-Intelligencer—The Hearst Company takes over—1920
 Virginia Mason Medical Center opens in Tacoma—1920
 Brown and Haley introduces Almond Roca in Tacoma—1923
 Blue Mouse Theater in Tacoma—1923
 The Olympic Hotel starts in Seattle—1924
 Fircrest Golf Course opens—1924
 Franke Tobey Jones Home breaks ground—1924
 Johnson Candy Company in Tacoma—1925
 Seattle-Tacoma Box Company opens in Tacoma—1926
 KOMO-AM radio goes on air with call letters KFQX—1926
 United Air Lines formed by Boeing— 1927
 Seattle’s new electric street-lighting system—Thomas Edison flips
a switch in West Orange, N.J. and turns on the system—1928
 Boeing Field opens—1928
 Pierce County Airport opens—1928 (later to become McChord Field)
 Allenmore Hospital (previously WA Minor Hospital) opens—1929
 Bob’s Java Jive opens in Tacoma—late 1920s