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Scary Lighthouse

Certain encounters can only happen to people who live by the sea. As Halloween arrives its appropriate for us seaport dwellers to consider the dark side of the sea and the safe harbor protections that come from a lighthouse. This year’s truly terrifying radio story comes from the French writer George C. Toudouze written in 1937 and produced for the air in 1949 by the program Escape. The program played on KMO in Tacoma during the fall of 1950 with Vincent Price staring.

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This site is about the way history, in this case of a city and it's surrounds, is remembered or recorded in stories and small bits of memory. It's also about the way images and stories go together, how they inform and enrich each other and how we as thinking people fill in the content between a narrative and a visual document. So here is my city in time past, the way it looked and the people and events that create its character. For more than 20 years I have taught a 5 credit course on the History of Tacoma at the University of Washington Tacoma. With an average of 30 or 40 students a year, each doing a research paper as their primary focus for the course, I have benefited from many paths of inquiry and many researched and assembled stories. Here are some of them in the retelling along with the treasures of photographs and images in the collections of the Washington State Historical Society, Tacoma Public Library, University of Washington Digital Archives, Washington State Archives at the Office of the Secretary of State, Library of Congress, Washington State University, Alaska State Library, and many other archives, libraries and private collections.

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