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D159700-201C
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- 1971-05-25 (Creation)
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1971 color Richards stock footage. Tacoma Mayor Gordon Johnston (L) and Governor Dan Evans (R) chat with Helen (Mrs. Lowell T., Sr.) Murray at the May, 1971, opening of the new home of the Tacoma Art Museum. As the engraved wall inscription indicates, the Murrays had generously donated money to purchase the old National Bank of Washington building to house the museum. It had previously been located in the old Public Safety Building. The old bank building became available when the National Bank of Washington (since merged with Pacific National to become Pacific National Bank of Washington) vacated the building as it moved its Tacoma headquarters to the Bank of Washington Plaza. Mr. and Mrs. Murray of Lakewood were longtime members of the museum. Mr. Murray passed away in March of 1971, two months before the museum's remodeling and refurbishing was completed. (TNT 5-23-71, E-1 - article)
Murray, Helen B.; Murray, Lowell T.--Family; Tacoma Art Museum (Tacoma); Johnston, Gordon N.; Mayors--Tacoma--1970-1980; Evans, Daniel J., 1925-; Governors; Building dedications--Tacoma--1970-1980;