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“For Downtown Tacoma … This could be the start of something BIG!,” sign on construction site, 11th Street at Broadway, 1974. It wasn’t.

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Board of Directors of the First American Pageant, with fake facial hair, Wyoming and Central, Albuquerque, New Mexico Photographer: Hanna Date: 1930s? Negative Number 128719

Shows (L to R): Bruce Evans; Ward Hicks, founder of Ward Hicks advertising agency; Sol Benjamin, merchant; Mike Kirk, "Gallup Indian Trader and impresario"; Clinton P. Anderson; Fred Fisher; Edgar Knight, manager of the Chamber of Commerce; and Arthur Prager, manager of the Albuquerque General Electric Co. 

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Boosters from Santa Fe with New Mexico Central Railway Company train car Date: 1910 - 1915? Negative Number 104773 Group includes Arthur Seligman and B.F. Pankey (around both 4th-5th from left?) 

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"'2 MILLION PEOPLE FOR VANCOUVER'," Vancouver Sun. October 19, 1934. Page 3. ---- British M.P.'s Vision --- WORLD BALANCE TO SHIFT TO PACIFIC --- B. C. TO PLAY LARGE PART ---- LONDON, Oct. 19. - Vancouver as a city of two million population was en-visioned by R. Croom-Johnson, K.C., M.P., in an interview on his return from a tour of Canada.

A change in world balance was foreseen by the member for Bridgwater.

"Canada and the United States, it seems to me," he said, "must one day become the balancing position of the world, with the Pacific. Japanese, Chinese and Russians on one said, the Atlantic with the old European civilization on the other side.

"In this development Vancouver holds a wonderful position. Its natural advantages and the lay-out of the city, should enable it to sustain a population of a couple of millions in the most beautiful surroundings, mountains, islands, seas and harbors."

TIDE HAS TURNED Belief that the economic tide has turned in Canada was expressed by Mr. Croom-Johnson, who found in British Columbia especially evidence of trade revival and increased employment.

"I should describe Canada," he said, "as being in the position from the point of view of public sentiment that we were in about 18 months ago, when we had begun to take courage and feel that we were getting away from the bottom."

Contrasting this with the United States he said business men seemed puzzled.

"They have been hoping that the NRA would produce something, but I heard no real conviction that it has done so," he said.

MORE SELF-RELIANCE While in the United States capital was timid Mr. Croom-Johnson found that in Canada funds were being provided on the spot for sound enter-prises and that people were not looking to England for capital

Recalling his visit to Vancouver on the day Hon. H. H. Stevens addressed a business men's luncheon Mr. Croom-Johnson said he had never heard the National Anthem sung with such obvious belief as in the city by the Pacific.

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Kath Keur, South Bend Restaurant Postcard Set, 2024

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"Kamloops: A City of Business," The Inland Sentinel (Kamloops). July 12, 1913. Page 2. ---- COMMERCIALLY Kamloops ranks as the most important City in the Interior of British Columbia. It is a thriving buer center, whose wide, well-kept streets are lined with modern stores. Kamloops rosidents can procure every requisite in their home town.

KAMLOOPS supplies not only her own population with goods, but serves as a colleting and distributing center for a wale and prosperous territory. The rich countryside for an expanse of many miles is tributary to the prosperity of, and is in turn supplied by Kamloops.

Kamloops Claims the Confidence of Capitalists

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Kamloops Counts in Commercial Circles

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