Editing Tacoma, Washington (section)

===The Great Depression===
The 1929 crash of the stock market, resulting in the [[Great Depression]], was only the first event in a series of misfortunes to hit Tacoma in the winter of 1929–30. In one of the coldest winters on record, Tacoma experienced mass power outages and eventually the shutdown of major power supply dams, leaving the city without sufficient power and heat.<ref>Hollywood-on-the-Tide flats, 1938. Richard Studio Collection, Northwest Room Tacoma Public Library, Tacoma, WA.</ref> During the 30-day power shortage in the winter of 1929 and 1930, the engines of the aircraft carrier {{USS|Lexington|CV-2|6}} provided Tacoma with electricity.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&File_Id=5113 |title=U.S.S. Lexington provides electricity to Tacoma beginning about on December 17, 1929 |website=HistoryLink.org}}</ref><ref>[http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/12/22/2411474/when-a-giant-ship-powered-tacoma.html In late 1929, Tacoma had no electricity; the USS Lexington brought the power] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130630105807/http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/12/22/2411474/when-a-giant-ship-powered-tacoma.html|date=June 30, 2013}}</ref>

A power grid failure paired with a newly rewritten city constitution – put into place to keep political power away from a single entity such as the railroad – created a standstill in the ability to further the local economy. Local businesses were affected as the sudden stop of loans limited progression of expansion and renewal funds for maintenance, leading to foreclosures.<ref>{{cite book |last=Mullins |first=William H. |title=The Depression and the Urban West Coast, 1929–1933: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Portland. Indiana |publisher=Indiana University Press |date=1991}}</ref> Families across the city experienced the fallout of economic depression as breadwinners sought to provide for their families. Shanty-town politics began to develop as the destitute needed some form of leadership to keep the peace.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Schmid |first=Calvin F. |title=Social Trends in Seattle, 1944 |journal=University of Washington Publications in the Social Sciences |volume=14 |date=1944 |pages=286–293 |url=http://depts.washington.edu/depress/resources/Jessie%20Jackson_The%20Story%20of%20Hooverville/Jackson_Story%20of%20Hooverville.pdf}}</ref>

====Hooverville====
At the intersection of Dock Street EXD and East D Street in the train yard, a [[shanty town]] became the solution to the growing scar of the depression. Tacoma's [[Hooverville]] grew in 1924 as the homeless community settled on the waterfront.<ref name="hooverville archive 40-74">''Tacoma News Tribune''. Tacoma Hooverville Archive, September 4, 1940 – July 24, 1974. Northwest Room Special Collections and Archives, Tacoma Public Library. Tacoma, Washington.</ref><ref name="hooverville archive 24-40">''Tacoma Daily Ledger''. Tacoma Hooverville Archive, July 18, 1924 – September 4, 1940. Northwest Room Special Collections and Archives, Tacoma Public Library. Tacoma, Washington.</ref> In 1927, Tacoma's Hooverville was coined "Hollywood" due to the type of crimes at the camp.<ref name="hooverville archive 40-74"/><ref name="hooverville archive 24-40"/> The population boomed in November 1930 through early 1931 as families from the neighboring McKinley and [[Hilltop, Tacoma, Washington|Hilltop]] areas were evicted.

Collecting scraps of metal and wood from local lumber stores and recycling centers, families began building shanties (shacks) for shelter. By 1934, alcoholism and suicide were a common event in the Hooverville<ref name="hooverville archive 40-74"/><ref name="hooverville archive 24-40"/> that eventually led to its nickname of "Hollywood on the Tide Flats", because of the [[Hollywood (film industry)|Hollywood]]-style crimes and events taking place in the camp.{{explain|date=May 2017|reason=What was a "Hollywood-style crime" of the 1930s?}}

In 1935, Tacoma received national attention when [[George Weyerhaeuser]], the nine-year-old son of prominent lumber industry executive [[J.P. Weyerhaeuser]], was kidnapped<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/weyer/weyer.htm |title=Famous Cases: The Weyerhaeuser Kidnapping |work=Federal Bureau of Investigation |access-date=March 27, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080312011205/http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/weyer/weyer.htm |archive-date=March 12, 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref> while walking home from school. [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agents from Portland handled the case, in which a ransom of $200,000 secured the release of the victim. Four persons were apprehended and convicted; the last to be released was paroled from [[McNeil Island Corrections Center|McNeil Island]] in 1963. George Weyerhaeuser went on to become chairman of the board of the [[Weyerhaeuser Company]].

In 1940, after eviction notices failed, the police department attempted to burn down Hooverville.<ref name="hooverville archive 40-74"/><ref name="hooverville archive 24-40"/>

In 1956, the last occupant of "Hollywood" was evicted and the police used fire to level the grounds and make room for industrial growth.<ref>Anderson, Hilary. "A Tale of Two Shantytowns." ''Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History'' 26, no. 2 (Summer 2012): 10-14. Academic Search Complete, EBSCOhost.</ref><ref name="hooverville archive 40-74"/><ref name="hooverville archive 24-40"/>