Rhodes Brothers Department was the second locally owned department store in Tacoma, WA.The store expanded upwards as business grew.Rhodes grew into a regional chain deaprtment store on the West Coast.The chain was bought by Liberty House and the downtown store was moved to the Tacoma Mall Shopping Center in the early 1970's. Later Liberty House reach financial problems and returned to their home territory of the State of Hawaii and sold the main land stores off.The old Rhodes building then was converted into the University of Puget Sound Law School.The law school was sold and moved to Seattle.The building now houses several offices and still stands in downtown Tacoma.Ronald Prettymen, Viriginia Storlie and other family members worked for the Rhodes store in downtown. The Seattle Rhodes Department Store was not a part of the Rhodes Brothers Department Store chain that began in Tacoma.
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