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D18659-7
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- 1944-12-24 (Creation)
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On Christmas Eve 1944, at 8:30 p.m., the staff of the Tacoma Pacific Telephone & Telegraph public telephone station, 1109 Pacific Avenue, served coffee and doughnuts to the service men waiting to use one of the center's telephones. The call center, which had twelve telephone booths, was decorated for the holiday season with a Christmas tree and a poinsettia. New telephone installations in Tacoma/Pierce County had been virtually frozen since May of 1942, with new phones restricted to those "vital to public health, public welfare or security". The phone center was set up primarily for the use of military personnel and war workers. (T.Times 5/20/1942, TNT 2/6/1943)
Parties--Tacoma; Christmas trees--Tacoma; Military personnel--Tacoma; Telephone booths--Tacoma--1940-1950; Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. (Tacoma);