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  2. YWCA Building (Yakima, Washington) - Wikipedia

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    Founded in 1909, the Yakima YWCA originally rented the second floor of Sawbridge's Hardware Store and used the gym from the First Baptist Church. In 1920, the YWCA purchased the land for the building but they were not able to break ground until 1934, when a local businessperson Alexander Miller donated $80,000 toward the effort.

  3. Yakima Training Center - Wikipedia

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    Then in 1951 the Army purchased 261,000 acres (1,060 km 2) for the Yakima Firing Center, which would become the modern Yakima Training Center. [ 2 ] The United States Army identified a need for a large maneuver area in the Pacific Northwest and appointed a board of officers to negotiate with local landowners to lease 160,000 acres in the Yakima ...

  4. 19-inch rack - Wikipedia

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    The industry-standard rack cabinet is 42U tall; [1] however, many data centers have racks taller than this. [2] The term relay rack appeared first in the world of telephony. [3] By 1911, the term was also being used in railroad signaling. [4] There is little evidence that the dimensions of these early racks were standardized. Telephone ...

  5. Roof rack - Wikipedia

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    If one plans to use the roof racks for off-road driving, the allowed weight should be divided by 2, and this will be the maximum amount to be carried on the roof racks in such driving conditions. A truck bed rack is a derivation of a roof rack designed to be installed over the bed of a pickup truck. The construction of a bed rack features tall ...

  6. Rack - Wikipedia

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    Rack slide, a type of linear bearing used to mount pull-out equipment in racks; Tzompantli, a display rack for human skulls in Mesoamerican cultures; Rack-O, a Milton-Bradley card matching game; Nordstrom Rack, an American off-price department store; mod_rack, informal name of Ruby web server Phusion Passenger; CSAR Rack 4-6-4RT a South African ...

  7. Yakima Transit - Wikipedia

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    Yakima Transit Gillig Advantage. Yakima Transit is the primary provider of mass transportation in the city of Yakima, Washington.It was established in 1966, as Yakima City Lines, when the city of Yakima began funding the provision of transit service after the privately owned company that had been providing service went bankrupt.

  8. William O. Douglas Federal Building - Wikipedia

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    The first post office in Yakima opened in 1885. By 1910, federal officials selected a location for a new post office and courthouse building in the town. Designed by Supervising Architect of the Treasury James Knox Taylor, the building is Yakima's premier example of Second Renaissance Revival style architecture. To celebrate the grand building ...

  9. Yakima Valley Libraries - Wikipedia

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    The Yakima Public Library was constructed in 1904, primarily using $10,000 grant donated for that purpose by Andrew Carnegie.The Rural Library District #1 (RLD) was established in 1944, and, in 1951, pooled resources with the City of Yakima to form the Yakima Valley Regional Library System.