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D51855-11
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- 1950 (Creation)
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ca. 1950. Demolition continues in the summer of 1950 on the site of the future Mountain View Sanatorium on Pacific Avenue. Exterior walls have already been removed from part of the building. Some windows have already been boarded up while others are left open to the elements. A truck loaded with construction debris is parked with the driver's door open and a worker is stooped holding on to a long rope or tubing which is snaked around an open box several feet away. Mountain View Sanatorium would be built on this site, at a cost of nearly two million dollars, and open for treatment of TB patients in May, 1952. It was situated on the south side of Pierce County Hospital and shared some facilities with the hospital. After many years of discussion, Mountain View closed in June, 1969, after it lost the state contract to treat tuberculosis patients and patients were moved to Firland in Seattle. It was absorbed by Pierce County Hospital and renamed Puget Sound General Hospital later that year.
Demolition--Tacoma--1950-1960; Abandoned buildings--Tacoma; Mountain View Sanatorium (Tacoma);