Central Avenue — Kent Gets a Library

Sal on SR 167 Northbound: Tacoma to Renton · Oct 29, 2026 · 1m

Sal: Between Central Avenue and South Two-Twelfth Street. Sal: Kent station, a block from Central Avenue, has 996 parking stalls and two platforms joined by a pedestrian overpass. Sal: In 1919, with the town approaching two thousand people, a local doctor, George MacGregor, whose wife had been a professional librarian, gave a speech about what Kent lacked. "Let any thoughtful person take a ten o'clock stroll through the street," he said, "they will see groups of people wandering aimlessly around." And: "We want them to be readers but we give them no library." Local merchants and doctors…