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J.P. Patches's jacket, 1960-2002
This is one of several jackets that local entertainer Chris Wedes (1928-2012) wore as clown J. P. Patches on the KIRO-TV children’s program "The J.P. Patches Show" from 1958 to 1981. The live improv show was immensely popular in the Puget Sound area and southwestern British Columbia. J.P. Patches was the Mayor of the City Dump, so his costumes had…
ID Number:2003.35.2
Date:1960-2002
J.P. Patches' marching bass drum, ca. 1970
Chris Wedes played fun-loving clown J.P. Patches twice a day on local television, reaching up to 100,000 kids. He often played a large bass drum featuring Farrell's Ice Cream as part of his show. Patches' 23-year run from 1958-1981 made it America's longest-running local children's program.
ID Number:2003.35.3
Date:Circa 1970
J.P. Patches' drumstick for marching bass drum, ca. 1970
Chris Wedes played fun-loving clown J.P. Patches twice a day on local television, reaching up to 100,000 kids. He often played a large bass drum featuring Farrell's Ice Cream as part of his show. Patches' 23-year run from 1958-1981 made it America's longest-running local children's program.
ID Number:2003.35.4
Date:Circa 1970
Wooden nameplate, for J.P. Patches, "Mayor Patches," ca. 1960-2002
Chris Wedes' playful clown character J.P. Patches, affectionately known as the "Mayor of the Dump", hosted one of America's longest-running local children's program from 1958-1981. This plaque was featured on his television show.
ID Number:2003.35.5
Date:Circa 1960-2002
Brakeman Bill "Big Mac" bib overalls, cap, and jacket, ca. 1955-1975
Brakeman Bill, featuring ex-DJ and sports announcer Bill McLain, was a popular weekday children's show on KTNT-TV (later KSTW-TV) in the Pacific Northwest market from 1955 to 1975. The television show was performed live and un-scripted; McLain dressed as a railroad brakeman, and drew pictures, ran elaborate model trains, showed cartoons, and interacted with puppet side-kick the Crazy Donkey, whose…
ID Number:2003.66.23REF.ONLINE
Date:Circa 1955-1975
Prop television from TV show Bill Nye the Science Guy, ca. 1993-1999
The TV show “Bill Nye the Science Guy” was filmed and produced in Seattle from 1993-1999. This prop television has a false blue cardboard screen that could be replaced in post-production with an image or a video (using the same principal as a green screen). Bill Nye moved to Seattle in 1977 to work as an engineer at Boeing and…
ID Number:2004.6.1
Date:Circa 1993-1999
Chrome-plated sign for KRSC TV, first television station in Seattle, established in 1948
This sign appeared on the first television broadcast in Seattle on Thanksgiving Day in November, 1948, for a high school football game at Memorial Stadium.
ID Number:2005.47.1
Date:Circa 1948
Post-Intelligencer (P-I) neon sign, 1927
Featuring the famous insignia “P-I” and underneath, “Main 2000," this sign graced the old Post-Intelligencer building from 1927 to 1949. The newspaper was originally founded in 1863 as the weekly Seattle Gazette. The name changed to the Post-Intelligencer in 1881 when it was merged with the Seattle Post. The P-I had a long run as a printed daily newspaper until…
ID Number:2006.1.27
Date:1927
Microphone used by Elise Olmstead in the very first broadcast in Seattle, ca. 1925
Elise Olmstead, originally from England, was the second wife of Roy Olmstead, one of the most notorious bootleggers in King County during the Prohibition years of the 1920s. In October of 1924, the couple started a radio station called KFQX. There was a studio in the Smith Tower but mostly Elise did the broadcast from their Mt. Baker home. The…
ID Number:2007.1.154.1
Date:Circa 1925
Watercolor study for the mural at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Eustace Ziegler, 1952
Eustace Paul Ziegler (1881 - 1969) was a noted Northwest artist known for his depictions of Alaskan and Pacific Northwest landscapes and industry. In 1924, Ziegler was commissioned to execute a number of large paintings for company offices in Seattle. He was a founder and the first president of the Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters. He was one of…
ID Number:2008.61.1
Date:1952