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April 2004 view of Browns Point and cottages below Marine View Drive
(Hasselblad XPan panoramic camera, 45mm lens, Fuji Reala film) |
Let us continue our quick September 2025 tour of Tacoma's waterfront. After exploring the commercial harbor on an overcast September day, I drove along Marine View Drive (Rte 509) to Browns Point. The bluffs rise steeply up from the road, but some new suburban developments have been carved into the hillside.
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Tank Farm vista and Double-brested cormorants, northeast Tacoma
(Kodak Panatomic-X film, 250mm ƒ/5.6 Sonnar lens, yellow filter) |
I think I would not opt to live above a tank farm, but they do have a nice view to the west of the harbor and downtown Tacoma.
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| Trucking company, 1749 Rte 509 (80mm ƒ/2.8 Planar-CB lens) |
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| Unknown chemical storage, 1749 Rte 509 (100mm ƒ/3.5 Planar lens) |
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| Chipping machine, 1748 Rte 509 |
The southern part of Marine View Drive is lines with industry and material handling companies.
Further north, the bluff rises steeply to the east, but the narrow beach has some cottages and year-round housing. Former pullouts with a view of the bay are now blocked and signed with "No Parking Any Time." I assume this was to keep off the homeless RVs and cars.
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| Beach cottage, Marine View Drive |
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| Watch kitties on patrol (100mm ƒ/3.5 Planar lens) |
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| Hubcap heaven? Or just good stuff? |
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Cranes at Washington United Terminals from Marine View Drive
(250mm ƒ/5.6 Sonnar lens, yellow filter) |
I took these phots on Kodak Panatomic-X film with my Hasselblad 501CM camera and various lenses. Glazer's Camera in Seattle developed the film. I scanned it with a Minolta Scan Multi medium format film scanner.
3 comments:
Those steep forested hills behind the waterfront looked familiar. Looking at the map I see that you were getting close to where I lived as a kid at Redondo. It was a great place to be a kid with the dense forest right behind the houses and the beach in front. There was a creek that big salmon spawned in. I see the penny arcade with the carousel has been replaced with a parking lot. We had to move away when a big storm washed out the beach road.
Great post and I love all the photos...and yes, including the cats! Thank you so much for sharing, and warm greetings from Montreal, Canada.
Thank you, I am glad you liked my photos of Tacoma. There is plenty of good subject matter there.
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