Many transit systems, including street cars and buses, have served Tacoma over the years and into the late 70's. The mass transit system, in Tacoma, was fragmented and operated by several other private bus lines operating from Tacoma, and into the county areas. By 1979, and voted by the county's citizens Pierce transit was formed giving birth to the bus system we have today.
In above 2007photo, on the left taken by Sharon shows the Pierce Transit bus in about the same location as the Stephen Cysewski photo on the right. Most of what can be seen in the background in Stephens photo is long gone, replaced by the Tacoma Convention center. The last thing I'll point out about these photos is the bus in Stephens photo the reads board says "Fern Hill" in Sharon's photo Pierce Transit was kind enough to run a bus by with "Fern Hill" also on the reader board. Fern Hill has never been used as route by Pierce Transit...we thank them very much.
