If you think you have a clutter problem with all those scraps of paper piling up everywhere, consider the mass of more than fifty thousand posters, tickets, catalogs and other ephemera gathered by Ed Nolan, a man working in the service of the Washington State Historical Society to preserve the printed record of Tacoma’s past.
Just dreaming up RAMROD, a one-hundred-and-fifty-four-mile bike ride up, around and down Mount Rainier, was an act of bold, creative invention. Actually making it through the one-day ride takes stamina, fortitude and wild self-confidence.
Business owners on North 21st Street are on a mission to forge a unified identity, which will enable them to receive public money for street improvements, flower boxes and other essentials to make these blocks even more charming.
