Tacoma, Washington

USA / Washington / Tacoma /
 city, county seat
www.cityoftacoma.org/

Tacoma (IPA: [tə ˈko mə]) is a mid-sized urban port city in Washington, USA. The city is situated on a peninsula on the southern end of Washington's Puget Sound, in an area 51 km (32 miles) southwest of Seattle, 50 km (31 miles) northeast of the State capital, Olympia, and 93 km (58 miles) northwest of Mount Rainier National Park.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma,_Washington
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Coordinates:   47°14'32"N   122°27'11"W

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  • I really like Tacoma, for some reason a lot of my friends don't.
  • Tacoma, One of the seasons is fall
  • Tacoma has come into its own. Its downtown is remade and quite attractive. It even got its light rail service going before Seattle. Good job Tacoma.
  • It is a wonderful city full of art, and great views. Commencement Bay is wonderful, and downtown is reinvented. New car museum and Kalakala building coming.
  • Many don't know that the original plans were for a city shaped like fruits and vegetable, no square corners or straight lines, the people almost violently rejected that plan, the Railroads wanted it to be THE city in the NW and tried hard to destroy Seattle. For years it was also know for the Aroma, of pulp mills and slaughter houses and the Smelter, they even wrote a song The Aroma of Tacoma. Today all but the pulp mill is gone and it's been contained. The Port is all about container ships, once called the new Hong Kong, for it's almost perfect deep water port, Tacoma is still trying to be something more than just another small town city. Who knows maybe someday it will succeed.
  • The genius loci in Tacoma is so great.
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