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Item
Title
D28739-2
Date(s)
- 1947-07-10 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company. A banquet is being held in this photograph dated July 10, 1947. A U-shaped table arrangement seats men and women around the room. Several men stand at the head table. The numbers of telephones in Tacoma had grown tremendously since the end of World War II. As of September 15, 1948, Tacoma had hit a record number of 62,559 phones, a gain of 18,737 since V-J Day. The number of phones hit 50,000 September 3, 1946. The druggist W.P. Bonney was the first Tacoman to have a telephone in 1885.
Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. (Tacoma); Banquets--Tacoma--1940-1950; Telephone companies--Tacoma--1940-1950; Business people--Tacoma--1940-1950;