ARCHIVE PHOTOGRAPH / mrg 00083 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/mrg.00083

Bob's Java Jive, Route 99, Tacoma, Washington

Washington ↗Tacoma ↗1979 ↗

BEHIND THIS PHOTOGRAPH

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Tacoma, Washington

A coffee pot with a second vocabulary

Tacoma’s novelty restaurant became a place whose name evokes music as well as coffee.

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THE ORIGINAL RECORD

Archive details

Photographer: Margolies, John
Photographed: 1979.
Location: United States--Washington (State)--Tacoma
Medium: 1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide format).
Digital ID: mrg 00083 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/mrg.00083
Reproduction number: LC-DIG-mrg-00083 (digital file from original color transparency)
Call number: LC-MA05- 83 [P&P]
Subjects: Eating & drinking facilities--1970-1980.
Mimetic buildings--1970-1980.
United States--Washington (State)--Tacoma.
Washington (State)--Tacoma
Eating & drinking facilities--1970-1980
Mimetic buildings--1970-1980
United States--Washington (State)--Tacoma
Margolies categories: Mimetic buildings; Eating & drinking establishments: (roadside and Main Street)
Rights advisory — Library of Congress: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see "John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive - Rights and Restrictions Information" https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/723_marg.html
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Original catalog notes: Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.
Margolies categories: Mimetic buildings; Eating & drinking establishments: (roadside and Main Street).
Purchase; John Margolies 2007 (DLC/PP-2007:125).
Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
General information about the John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.mrg
Forms part of: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008).
Source: Library of Congress record ↗ · Image resource ↗
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