Allison Needles: Nightly hunt for a new Holiday Window leads neighbors across this Tacoma neighborhood News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. 12/10/2020 Allison Needles, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.) Every day of December, a decorated holiday window appears somewhere in Tacoma’s North End like an advent calendar. On Dec. 1, a nativity scene resembling a stained glass window appeared along Union Avenue. On Dec. 6, an octopus, reminiscent of the local legend that a giant octopus lives under the Narrows Bridge, made its home on a J Street window. Near each window, a sign declares the decorations as part of Holiday Windows, a tradition started this year by North End resident Brad Stave. When a new window is revealed, it is placed on a map for people to find it.