A smoky sun was setting behind Fox Island Thursday evening as dozens of people at Titlow Beach were opening laptop computers at tables, splashing in the incoming tide and shooting selfies of the amber ...

Where did you go, TACOMA? Missing sign reappears in city waters. Here’s who’s behind it By Craig Sailor. Updated August 11, 2024 2:42 PM.

Artist John James Nelson holds a wood “O” that is part of a new “Tacoma” sign that he put up at Titlow Beach on Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, in Tacoma, Wash.

He’s the man behind the sign and its predecessors. The first, an homage to the famous “You’ll like Tacoma” sign that graced the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle, was ...