Editing Fircrest, Washington (section)

==History==
Fircrest was officially incorporated on September 19, 1925. Like its neighbor [[University Place, Washington|University Place]], it is a middle-class suburb of [[Tacoma, Washington|Tacoma]]. The community was developed by [[Edward Bowes]], who later gained fame as the host of the [[Major Bowes Amateur Hour]] radio talent show. The town attempted to associate itself with academia by naming a number of its streets after universities (e.g. Princeton, Dartmouth, Yale, Vassar, Stanford) and was originally known as Regents Park in a reference to the regents of a university.<ref name="Seattle Times">{{cite web|url=http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/fircrest-last-dry-town-left-in-state-is-voting-on-booze/|title=Fircrest, last dry town left in state, is voting on booze|date=October 24, 2015 |publisher=[[Seattle Times]]|access-date=October 25, 2015}}</ref>

Fircrest was the last "[[dry county|dry]]" municipality in Washington state, prohibiting the sale of alcohol by the glass. Voters chose to allow the sale of alcohol in Fircrest in the [[2015 United States elections|November 2015]] election.<ref name="Seattle Times2">{{cite web|url=http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/fircrest-voters-ending-liquor-sale-ban/|title=Fircrest voters ending liquor-sale ban|date=November 3, 2015 |publisher=[[Seattle Times]]|access-date=December 18, 2015}}</ref>