It is regarded today as one of America's greatest Art Deco buildings.

Today the four-block pedestrian mall, a short walk from the restored waterfront, is lined with shops in Victorian and Art Deco buildings along brick-paved streets.

There may even be a visit to Firecats, a strip joint that happens to be the current tenant of one of the town's most spectacular Deco buildings.

The gray Deco building is on a busy boulevard, and there was no doorman present in the cool, dark lobby.

It was considered one of finest Art Deco buildings in Asia.

The Deco buildings of the 1930's are my generation's equivalent.

Having just sold one Deco building, they are buying another.

Tacoma also has an impressive stock of turn-of-the-century and Art Deco buildings that were largely in disrepair or even abandoned in recent decades, lending a ghost-town air to parts of downtown.

At Fifty-ninth Street, he turned east toward Park, then north to Sixty-second Street, where he disappeared into a yellowish-brown Deco building on the corner.

The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's landmark Art Deco building is home to both restaurants.