the 'Aroma of Tacoma'

First of all, I love Tacoma, Washington - 'The City of Destiny'.

I was born in Tacoma; my two brothers were born in Tacoma, my Mom graduated from Lincoln High School (class of '33), Tacoma.

I recognize many of the names on the graves at the old 'Tacoma Cemetery' on South Tacoma Ave, as 'family'.

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Downtown Tacoma has gone through a virtual renaissance in the last few years; where not only historic buildings are being renovated, but it's now being reoccupied with, PEOPLE.

I mean, you just can't get better than that!!

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I know the closing of the pulp mills down in the tide-flats put a lot of people out of work, and that's never a good thing.

But the last line in 'Aroma of Tacoma' is no longer true, because the infamous aromas are gone, and GONE FOREVER MORE!

(sung to the tune of "Wabash Cannonball")

"The Aroma of Tacoma takes your breath away.
You can tell it, you can smell it, when you're fourteen miles away!
From the great Olympic Mountains to the tide flats by the shore,
that aroma will be with us for now and ever more!"