The idea for a Tacoma Pioneer Telephone Museum began over 55 years ago, when those pioneers began collecting items still in use. Many of these such as test equipment, tools, telephone sets, and a wire chiefs desk are now on display.
This museum actually started in the fall of 1991, when AT&T provided about 1100 sq. ft. of floor space on the first floor of the AT&T office building at 757 Fawcett Ave. in Tacoma. The museum now contains a variety of exhibits, including:
1 Vintage telephones, many crank type old sets both foreign and domestic.
2 The first cordless telephone from the Seattle Worlds Fair held in 1961.
3 A wire chiefs desk from the 1920's
4 A working 701A step by step PBX . It was donated by AT&T at The Dalles Ore. We dismantled it and brought it to the museum and now is in good working condition.
5 Several old teletype machines and related equipment all in working condition.
6 A multitude of old pictures of employee groups, telephone buildings, old time construction projects etc. all displayed on page type panels.
7 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.
8 Toll test boards, a morse board, and a primary board they are equipped with a working morse telegraph key and sounder. Two of our docents still are able to use the code.
9 Old telephone and pioneer records, old telephone directories some from the turn of the century.
10 A sound power telephone display from the cable laying barge.
11 A working crossbar dial system
12 Outside plant cables, tools, equipment and much more.
13 Two phone booths equipped with lights and tel sets.
14 A display of electronic tubes that were manufactured by the Western Electric Co.
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757 Fawcett Ave So, Tacoma, WA 98402
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