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NPR STATION KNKX UNVEILS NEW HOME
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The space was designed by V Three Studios in St. Louis, preserving the historic features of the C.N. Gardner Building and making the space bright and dynamic. KNKX FM 88.5, the region’s National Public Radio affiliate, is now broadcasting from its new studio at 930 Broadway. This culminates the station’s transformation that began in 2016 from being KPLU and based on the campus of Pacific Lutheran University in Parkland
to its new name and new home in the heart of downtown Tacoma, where station management hopes the more accessible location will allow for more interaction with listeners as well as events that are open to the public. “KNKX’s new home is ideally located in the heart of the city,” said KNKX President and General Manager Joey Kohn. “The process to determine a new station location, design, build and raise the funds to make it all possible started three years ago, after KNKX was saved by the community. Our listeners’ kindness, generosity and belief make this next step in the story of our independence a reality.” Designed by V Three Studios of St. Louis, the station occupies 7,625 square feet in the historic C.N. Gardner Building. Floor to ceiling windows allow in much natural light, as well as an opportunity to passersby to view the happenings within. The design features a combination of the building’s 1906 architecture of red brick and Greek columns, while allowing for the state-of-the-art technical needs of a modern station. Erik Hanberg, the station’s marketing and communications director, said KNKX signed a long-term lease on the building. Office space was still being set
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Paige Hansen hosts Midday Jazz from noon-3 p.m. every Monday through Friday. up during a media briefing earlier this week. Hanberg said staff currently based in Seattle will begin relocating next week. It will have a total of 26 employees. He discussed plans for public use of a small area in the front of the space, which could include live jazz or lectures. Likely partners would include neighbors with a cultural or educau See KNKX / page 5
HAP GAYLORD’S PASSING IS A LOSS FOR ALL OF TACOMA BY MATT NAGLE matt@tacomaweekly.com
When born and bred Tacoman Hap Gaylord passed away on Aug. 25, a piece of Tacoma died with him. It was 1958 when he established Hap’s Westside Auto Repair and Hap’s Towing in what is now called University Place and ever since then it has been a landmark for those who live around here. Hap himself was a landmark as well – one of the last of the businessmen from that era when making a buck came second to making a friend. That was Hap’s business philosophy and it served him beautifully throughout his 60 years behind the front counter. Hap came into the world at St. Joseph’s hospital in 1930. The city of University Place didn’t exist yet (it incorporated in 1995), nor were paved roads the norm. Today’s U.P. thoroughfare Mildred Street was known as Anderson Pierce Road and it was a dirt road. Oswald’s Flying Service airport and flight school were across the street from where Hap’s was located at 6802 27th St. W., until it moved to Gig Harbor and is now known as the Tacoma Narrows Airport. Back then, in the late 1950s and into the ’60s when commercial tow trucks started being dispatched, Hap’s was the towing com-
pany in the Puget Sound area. FRIENDS AND FAMILY The business was indeed a family affair. Hap’s children – Shelley, Derek, Greg and Gerald – all worked at the wrecking yard at some point in their lives. The business enjoyed the help of a couple hundred employees as well over the years, some who stayed a very long time – like Dick Peterson for close to 40 years beginning in the late ’70s, and Gene Gaylord, Hap’s brother, for 57 years, from 1960 until 2017. Hap was glad to share his knowledge in auto repair with employees and they learned GEYLORD FAMILY from the best. The HAP’S sign that Hap build on top of the business lit up with 52 The number of customers is be- headlights – so bright that the airport across the road called the FAA yond count. “There were tens of and had the lights shut down. thousands of customers my dad ness the same year that Hap’s good friend Curt Kendall helped,” Hap’s son Greg Gaylord said. He believes that Hap’s was the longest running opened U.P. Auto Parts at business in University Place. His dad opened the busi- the bottom of the hill on u See HAP / page 9