Walking Tour Series 2025
You will be amazed to hear Tacoma’s history like you have never heard before.
Each tour is a 1-hour walking tour with uneven sidewalks and is adapted to those with disabilities.
Purchase your Tour below and Patty will contact you to schedule your tour.
Downtown Tacoma Tour
Why was the notorious Broadway Hotel padlocked in 1929? How is the Broadway Hotel connected to Ben Dews Deli? This intriguing walking tour includes the history of Rhodes Department Store, Moving Sidewalks, Pacific 1st Federal Savings, which child was the star of the Rust Building, the skilled music teachers who lived in the Bernice Building, which buildings the ghosts haunt today and a tragic car accident on Pacific Avenue in November 1941.
Ruston Way History Tour
A beautiful stretch of Commencement Bay has been home to the well-loved Top of The Ocean restaurant, Fourth of July celebrations, Cummings Boat Company, Harbor Lights restaurant and over 30 lumber mills on Tacoma’s bustling waterfront. Once named Front Street before this was named Ruston Way experience the notorious history of racketeering, burning buildings, Water Carnivals and a home which once fell into Commencement Bay. Hear a fourth generation Tacoma resident share her stories of growing up in Tacoma; her uncle was one of the firefighters who fought the fire at the Top of the Ocean restaurant and her great grandfather who was a blacksmith in Old Town.
Westmoreland Neighborhood Tour
Did you know Mr. Hosea A. Briggs came to Tacoma seeking a sister he never met? Did you know there once was a horse pasture on North Orchard Street where two horses named Thunder & Lightening lived? When Mr. Briggs came to Tacoma, he immediately liked Tacoma, called his wife stating to gather their children and belongings as they were all moving to Tacoma. Before North 30th Street was paved, before Westgate Shopping Center, before Tupperware parties, Briggs Construction Company built 90 homes in the Westmoreland neighborhood of Tacoma’s North End. See where the sales office is still standing and learn about the mind boggling 5000 people who attended the open house in August 1951.
Call 253-208-0135 or email me with any questions you may have about our Tacoma history walking tours, Historic home history research or Tacoma history presentations.
History is more than a lesson in a book or an internet search. History is a passion for sharing stories and carrying on meaningful traditions.
~ Anonymous