Author Partners With Daughters To Create A New Book On Tacoma’s Stadium District

Aug. 27, 2010 - PRLog -- Local author Joy Keniston-Longrie with daughters Kelsey and Amberose Longrie present Tacoma’s Stadium District, the newest addition to the popular Images of America Series from Arcadia Publishing. Boasting over 200 vintage images, Tacoma’s Stadium District showcases this historic area of Tacoma and chronicles its rise from an old-growth rainforest to the beautiful neighborhood of today.

Perched high on the bluffs overlooking Commencement Bay, Mount Tahoma (Rainier), and the Cascade Mountains is one of the best-preserved historical residential areas in the nation.  Magnificent Stadium Bowl is an important gathering place, and the steep spires of Stadium High School have inspired thousands of Tacomans for more than a century.

A telegram stating, “We have located terminus on Commencement Bay,” was sent on July 14, 1873, by R.D. Rice and J.C. Ainsworth, Northern Pacific Railroad commissioners, to Gen. Morton Mathew McCarver in Tacoma and Arthur Denny in Seattle’s Pioneer Square. This message set the iron wheels in motion for Tacoma’s destiny and transformation from old-growth forests to the Stadium District of today.


Highlights of Tacoma’s Stadium District:
•   Showcases more than 200 vintage images from both public and private collections
•   Features a foreword by former Tacoma mayor and Stadium High School graduate Bill Baarsma
•   Depicts many of the historic homes and buildings that have given the area its grandiose look for more than a century

Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at www.arcadiapublishing.com or
(888)-313-2665.  

Arcadia Publishing is the leading publisher of local and regional history in the United States.  Our mission is to make history accessible and meaningful through the publication of books on the heritage of America’s people and places.  Have we done a book on your town?  Visit www.arcadiapublishing.com.

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With more than 6,000 local history titles published to date, Arcadia Publishing is the leading publisher of local and regional history in the United States. Widely recognized sepia books feature hundreds of vintage historical images.