Mueller-Harkins Field / Clover Park Technical College Airfield, Clover Park, WA47.174, -122.5 (Southwest of Seattle, WA)A 9/7/27 photo of the inauguration of direct airmail & passenger service at Tacoma's Mueller-Harkins Airport.According to a City of Lakewood web site (via Chris Kennedy),the property of the Tacoma Speedway was sold in October of 1922 (after going bankrupt)and the Mueller-Harkins Airport was established.The earliest photo which has been located of Mueller-Harkins Airport was a 9/7/27 photo of the inauguration of direct airmail & passenger service at the airport.After the first bag of air mail arrived, Postmaster Clyde Backus, right, turned it over to department employee Alfred Bottiger, left, who carried it to the city by automobile.Pictured in the center is R. A. Mueller.Over 2,500 people waited 2 hours at the airport to cheer the arrival of the first airmail plane of the Pacific Air Transport Co.