In “Secret Tacoma,” city’s plucky, tragic and strange history lives on

Chris Staudinger is obsessed with an old-timey circus performer.

“His whole thing was to catch turnips thrown from any height on the tines of a fork,” he explained to me.

Zanetta, the performer, provided entertainment at the opening of Tacoma’s National Realty Building, which in 1910 was the tallest building in the state…

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