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Title
A30947-1
Date(s)
- 1947-12-11 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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Graybar Electric Company started doing business in Tacoma in 1918, they are an electronic wholesale distributing company. Graybar was founded in Cleveland, Ohio in 1869, when high demands increased their production, the company relocated to Chicago, Illinois that same year. In 1926 they changed the company's name to Graybar, combining the two founders names, Gray and Barton. Interior view of Tacoma's Graybar showroom, featuring desk lamps, toasters, radios and many other new electronic devices for 1948.
Graybar Electric Co. (Tacoma); Radios; Light fixtures; Toasters; Appliance stores--Tacoma;