Image:Tacoma-Stadiumhighschool-ca1910.jpg

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Date
about 1910
Place
Tacoma, Pierce, Washington, United States
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Description

Circa 1910 postcard image of Stadium High School in Tacoma, Washington. It had been originally built as a Northern Pacific Railroad hotel in 1891 to resemble a French chateau. The Panic of 1893 brought the construction to a halt when the Northern Pacific was faced with financial disaster. On October 11, 1898 the building was gutted by a massive fire. Tacoma School District purchased the building on February 19, 1904 with the intent of turning it into a high school. It was repaired and renovated into a school, and the reconstructed building opened September 10, 1906 as Tacoma High School. Seven years later, the name was changed to reference the adjacent Stadium Bowl.

The stadium dates from 1910 and is in a location once known as Old Woman's Gulch. It was built using steam shovels and sluicing to move more than 180,000 cubic yards down the edges of the gulch to create a flat playing field of 2.5 acres. Wooden molds were built to cast concrete for 31 rows of stadium seating surrounding the playfield. Built with a seating capacity of 32,000, it was much grander than what remains today. Among those who spoke there were Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, William Jennings Bryan, and Billy Sunday.

Labeled: "High School and Stadium, Mount Tacoma in distance, Tacoma Wash."

Image recorded at eBay Store, and copied for use at the WeRelate place page by BobC on 8 August 2010.

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  • (del) (cur) 04:57, 8 August 2010 . . BobC (Talk | contribs) . . 560×352 (29,266 bytes) (==Description== Circa 1910 postcard image of Statium High School in Tacoma, Washington. Labeled: ''"High School and Stadium, Mount Tacoma in distance, Tacoma Wash."'' Image recorded at [http://cgi.ebay.com/C-1910-Tacoma-Washington-PC-High-School-Stadiu)

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