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D9809-8
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- 1940-05-25 (Creation)
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The game Bingo was invented in 1929. This Bingo party was held at the home of Lowell and Helen Murray in 1940 for the friends of their daughter Amy Lou. The party was in honor of Nelson Davis and his fiance Virginia Gilbert of Portland, Oregon. The Murrays lived at 11211 Gravelly Lake Dr. SW in Lakewood in a Spanish style house that was built in 1919 for Joseph Carman. Known as "Villa Carman" the home sat on an estate of 18 acres and was considered one of the most beautiful homes in the Tacoma area. The Murrays bought it in 1939, and while they owned it, it was known as "Madera". In 1987 Linda Evans purchased the house for a reported $1.15 million. (T. Times, Society 6/1/1940, pg. 5)
Bingo--Tacoma; Murray, Amy Lou--Homes & haunts; Entertaining--Tacoma--1940-1950;