Saturday, June 12, 2010

Bicycle Race on Pacific Avenue

Last month I went along with plenty of people for Tacoma Public Library's first Walking Tour, past the historic Washington Building. There I lost the thread of the narrative and asked if the Washington Building was the Dashiell Hammett Maltese Falcon building from which the metal beam fell in the story within a story narrative.

Yes, that is the building, the same building. And our group, sizable, walked across Pacific Avenue peering up at the building against the sky. Just beyond was the Eleventh Street Bridge.

Now there is a bicycle race that takes large groups of bike riders in heats along Commerce, and around the corner - they appear a block farther, cross the landscape between the buildings, one the Washington Building, where the Eleventh Street Bridge appears clear in a June sky. June weather has appeared out of the rain. The sky is very blue.

There are old photos of historic Tacoma on the internet. I began to view the bike race from the corner where Manning's Market was. With my mother we went in and bought smoked liver sausage. She bought potato sausage there.

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