132 results for: Recreation
Barnyard Cannibals denim vest handpainted by Milestone, 2010
Pele Washington, a.k.a. B-Boy Play, is the leader of Seattle breakdance crew Barnyard Cannibals. Washington asked local graffiti artist Milestone to help create a look for competitions, something that represented B-Boy Play and his crew while he was dancing. Milestone painted the back panel and removed the jacket sleeves to create this unique vest.
ID Number:2016.41.1
Date:2010-2011
Miniature Bardahl racing car, Dodge Challenger R/T, made by Greenlight Collectibles, 2016
This is a miniature of the 1970 Dodge Challenger that Al Young owned and raced in championship races. The full-sized car is also in the MOHAI collection.
ID Number:2016.65.1
Date:2016
Convertible folding table and ping pong table designed and patented by Berger Anderson, Boeing employee, 1957
Berger Anderson, born in Sweden, was an employee for Boeing from 1928-1961. He was scheduled to be on a test flight of a prototype B-29 on Feb. 18, 1943, which crashed into the Frye meat packing plant in the Georgetown neighborhood, killing all eleven souls on board, including the pilot, Edmund T. Allen, the most experienced test pilot at Boeing.…
ID Number:2016.73.1
Date:1957
Button pin, "I've been 'Urched' by a She Urchin," from the She Urchins women's diving club, Seattle, ca. 1961
The She-Urchins were an all women's scuba diving club founded by Lorraine Keffler in 1961. This pin promotes the local diving group but the meaning of "Urched" has not yet been explained.
ID Number:2017.56.1
Date:Circa 1961
Football helmet, ZERO1, made by VICIS, 2017
The VICIS Foundation is a Seattle-based organization dedicated to providing high schools and youth leagues with sports protective equipment and sports safety programs. The ZERO1 helmet is a highly-engineered product, the result of three years of research and development influenced by leading athletes, engineers, and neurosurgeons. The helmet provides a wider peripheral view, and the multiple layers mitigate collisions and…
ID Number:2017.68.1
Date:2017
ROFFE one-piece ski suit, 1980s
Brightly colored one-piece ski suits were a hot style in the 1980s. This one has snaps that are color-matched and thoughtfully placed to not interrupt the lines where colors intersect. Each snap has an R for Roffe.Sam Roffe founded the company in Seattle in 1953, after spending 22 years as a cutter at Seattle Woolen. Roffe himself was never a…
ID Number:2018.45.1
Date:Circa 1980
Pair of Outdoor Research X-Gaiters with foam inserts, 1981
In 1980, physicist and mountaineer Ron Gregg found himself in a perilous situation on Alaska’s Denali. Gregg’s climbing partner suffered frostbite and was airlifted out, all due to poorly designed gaiters—an accessory that covers the ankle and lower leg. After the well-planned trip was derailed by one failed accessory, Gregg created a solution: the foot-insulating X-Gaiter. Gregg launched Seattle-based Outdoor…
ID Number:2018.74.1
Date:1981
Camp Fire Girls match holder, 1960s
The owner of this match holder joined the King County Council chapter of the Camp Fire Girls organization in the late 1950s. She enjoyed wearing the uniforms, attending day camps in Blyth Park in Bothell, and participating in various activities with the organization.
ID Number:2019.28.5
Date:Circa 1960
Firearm holster from Warshal's Sporting Goods, 1950s
Adolph and William Warshal opened a pawn shop in downtown Seattle in 1922. In 1936 it moved to First and Madison and expanded into sporting goods, which became its primary business during the decades it remained at that location. Two branch stores were opened in the 1950s and 1960s, one in Ravenna and one near Northgate, but both eventually closed.…
ID Number:2019.101.2
Date:Circa 1950
Black and sporty pinewood derby car, one of four, made by Jim Smith, ca. 1995-2010
Carving pinewood derby cars and competing in races have long been a traditional pastime for the Royal Ranger Boys and the Missionettes (now the National Girls Ministries). Jim Smith, a local pinewood derby enthusiast, supported these organizations by helping the youngsters make their own derby cars, and he hand-carved this toy car, along with four others in the collection. For…
ID Number:2020.40.1
Date:Circa 1995-2010