540 results for: Businesses and Corporations
Seattleopoly Board Game, ca. 1989
This board game, based on the famous Monopoly game, features actual Seattle businesses, industries, and organizations such as Safeco, Cutters, Warwick Hotel, Victoria Clipper, and KOMO 4 TV. Each property has an address and phone number for the business named.
ID Number:2000.57.1
Date:Circa 1989
Homegrocer.com fleece pullover, 1997-2000
Homegrocer was an early online grocery delivery business, founded in Bellevue in 1997. This green fleece jacket was part of the uniform for delivery drivers. The company developed its own technology, including an award-winning website, a wireless picking system, and high-tech phones for drivers. Homegrocer went public in March of 2000, just as the dot-com bubble was becoming the dot-com…
ID Number:2001.41.5
Date:1997-2000
Homegrocer.com mouse pad, ca. 1997
Homegrocer was an early online grocery delivery business, founded in Bellevue in 1997. The company developed its own technology, including an award-winning website, a wireless picking system, and high-tech phones for drivers. Homegrocer went public in March of 2000, just as the dot-com bubble was becoming the dot-com bust. While initially successful and profitable, the company found itself struggling to…
ID Number:2001.41.7
Date:Circa 1997
Homegrocer.com shopping bag, ca. 1999
Homegrocer was an early online grocery delivery business, founded in Bellevue in 1997. The company developed its own technology, including an award-winning website, a wireless picking system, and high-tech phones for drivers. Homegrocer went public in March of 2000, just as the dot-com bubble was becoming the dot-com bust. While initially successful and profitable, the company found itself struggling to…
ID Number:2001.41.10
Date:Circa 1999
Homegrocer.com shopping bag, ca. 1999
Homegrocer was an early online grocery delivery business, founded in Bellevue in 1997. The company developed its own technology, including an award-winning website, a wireless picking system, and high-tech phones for drivers. Homegrocer went public in March of 2000, just as the dot-com bubble was becoming the dot-com bust. While initially successful and profitable, the company found itself struggling to…
ID Number:2001.41.11
Date:Circa 1999
Boeing 377 Load Computer, 1952
Boeing engineer, Cliff Heckard, invented this mechanical computer device in the early 1950s to calculate the center of gravity and load of aircraft in order to assist in rapid loading. The device did reach full production due to the introduction of electronic computers around that time.
ID Number:2001.54.1
Date:1952
Starbucks car mug with lid, ca. 1990
This Starbucks Coffee mug was made for drinking beverages in the car in the 1990s. The lid can be turned to seal the mug, and the rubber ring on base keeps it from sliding.
ID Number:2001.62.1
Date:Circa 1990
Microsoft Windows software, 1992-1995
Microsoft first unveiled Windows in 1983. Windows has been consistently one of the company's top selling products. In August 1995, retailers sold over 1 million copies of Windows 95 in its first four days of release. As processor speed and chip size increased, so did sales of each new improved Windows product, not to mention Microsoft's revenues.
ID Number:2001.64
Date:1992-1995
Wooden sign from Shelly's Leg Tavern, 1975
Famous for the bold sign announcing its identity, Seattle’s first disco opened in December 1973 at the foot of Main Street. Co-owner Shelly Bauman, a colorful figure, named the bar for the leg she lost to a cannon that misfired in a Pioneer Square parade. Money from the lawsuit helped her start the bar. "I wanted a place where everyone…
ID Number:2001.66.1
Date:1975
Watchmaker's workbench and tools, ca. 1930
This workbench belonged to Aaron Yormark. He served a seven-year apprenticeship in the watchmaking trade in Perm located in the Ural mountains of Russia. With the turmoil in Russia at the end of WWI, he left his parents and siblings for Siberia to avoid conscription in the army. He met and married Anna Yavorsky in Vladivostock and they fled to…
ID Number:2001.83.1
Date:Circa 1930