WASHINTON STATE HISTORY MUSEUM
Downtown Tacoma at Night
We had to pay for parking!
Finally we made it to the museum
Downtown Tacoma at Night
We had to pay for parking!
Finally we made it to the museum
Can you believe that they actually used to travel cross country in this? I was amazed!
QUICK get help man down!
This is a men's hat circa 1890 
They had a whole room full of model trains with replicated Tacoma for the 1950's.
I was actually able to talk to Franklin D Rosevelt about D-Day on this phone.I am pretty sure it has magically time travel wires.
Trysten and I in the history lab, we signed the guest book and guess what I wasn't the only one there from Louisiana there had been a family earlier in the day.
They used to use this to store water...I wonder how enviormentally friendly these steel rings are?
Me strapped to the front of the plane!
Here are some pics of the place during the daylight:
UNION STATION
Built in 1911 at the terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad, Union Station is one of downtown Tacoma's shining jewels. A magnificent example of the Beaux Arts style of architecture, the structure served train passengers into the 1980s but fell into disrepair as interest in railroad travel diminished. In the 1990s, the City of Tacoma bought the building for just one dollar and renovated the station into the lobby of a new federal courthouse.
These are amazing glass sculptures by a local artist named Dale Chihuly. He graduated from high school in Tacoma. Supported by his mother, after his brother George's death in a flight-training accident in Florida and his father's death of a heart attack, he enrolled at the College of the Puget Sound in 1959. A year later, he transferred to the UW of Seattle. In 1967, he received a Master of Science in sculpture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he studied under Harvey Littleton. In 1968 he went on to become the first American glassblower (but not the first American artist/designer) to work in the prestigious Venini Fabrica on the island of Murano. Chihuly lives and works in his 25,000 square foot studio, nicknamed "The Boathouse" for its former use, on Lake Union in Seattle. Since losing the vision in one of his eyes in a car accident in 1976, Chihuly (who wears an eyepatch) no longer has the depth perceotion necessary to handle the molten glass himself. Instead, he conceptualizes each project with paint and canvas and then employs a team of artists to do the work.
Me strapped to the front of the plane!
Here are some pics of the place during the daylight:
UNION STATION
Built in 1911 at the terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad, Union Station is one of downtown Tacoma's shining jewels. A magnificent example of the Beaux Arts style of architecture, the structure served train passengers into the 1980s but fell into disrepair as interest in railroad travel diminished. In the 1990s, the City of Tacoma bought the building for just one dollar and renovated the station into the lobby of a new federal courthouse.These are amazing glass sculptures by a local artist named Dale Chihuly. He graduated from high school in Tacoma. Supported by his mother, after his brother George's death in a flight-training accident in Florida and his father's death of a heart attack, he enrolled at the College of the Puget Sound in 1959. A year later, he transferred to the UW of Seattle. In 1967, he received a Master of Science in sculpture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he studied under Harvey Littleton. In 1968 he went on to become the first American glassblower (but not the first American artist/designer) to work in the prestigious Venini Fabrica on the island of Murano. Chihuly lives and works in his 25,000 square foot studio, nicknamed "The Boathouse" for its former use, on Lake Union in Seattle. Since losing the vision in one of his eyes in a car accident in 1976, Chihuly (who wears an eyepatch) no longer has the depth perceotion necessary to handle the molten glass himself. Instead, he conceptualizes each project with paint and canvas and then employs a team of artists to do the work.
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