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D23646-1
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- 1946-09-11 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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Several people stand in the parking lot of the Memorial Presbyterian Church on September 15, 1946, while George Phillips holds a large helium balloon aloft. George Phillips was already known as the "whiskey bottle evangelist" of Tacoma. For the time being he has abandoned his bottles in favor of balloons for delivering evangelical messages around the world. Mr. Phillips reported that gas filled balloons sometimes travel 200 miles an hour when they reach high altitudes. (T.Times, 9/16/1946, p.1)
Balloons--Gig Harbor--1940-1950; Phillips, George W.; Evangelists; Memorial Presbyterian Church (Gig Harbor);