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Tacoma
Telephone Pioneers Museum
Exhibits of telephone
equipment, phones, old phone books, switchboards, teletypes, and more,
are displayed at the Tacoma Telephone Pioneers Museum. It is located at
757 Fawcett Ave., downtown Tacoma. Hours are 8:00 AM-noon, every
Thursday, or by appointment. Telephone number is 253-627-2996.
The Tacoma Pioneer Telephone Museum
consists of items being collected over the past 55 years. Many of
these items, such as test equipment, tools, telephone sets, and a
wire chiefs desk are now on display.
The museum, started in the fall of
1991 when AT&T provided about 1100 sq. ft. of floor space on the
first floor of its office building at 757 Fawcett Ave., now contains
a variety of exhibits:
- Vintage telephones, many crank
type old sets both foreign and domestic.
- The first cordless telephone
from the Seattle Worlds Fair held in 1961.
- A wire chiefs desk from the
1920's.
- A working 701A step by step PBX
. It was donated by AT&T at The Dalles Ore. It was
dismantled and brought to the museum and now is in good working
condition.
- Several old teletype machines
and related equipment, all in working condition.
- A multitude of old pictures of
employee groups, telephone buildings, old time construction
projects.
- Many old type manual
switchboards, a long distance operators board from the old
Tacoma office, several old manual PBX boards including two local
battery drop signal models.
- Toll test boards, a Morse board,
and a primary board. They are equipped with a working Morse
telegraph key and sounder.
- Old telephone and pioneer
records, old telephone directories, some from the turn of the
century.
- A sound power telephone display
from the cable laying barge.
- A working crossbar dial system.
- Outside plant cables, tools,
equipment.
- Two phone booths equipped with
lights and telephone sets.
- A display of electronic tubes
that were manufactured by the Western Electric Co.
- ...and much, much more.
TacomaSceneMedia, Inc.
PO Box 9555
Tacoma, Washington 98409
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