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Bottle of Pure Flavor Brandy extract from Crescent Mfg. Co., ca. 1980
The Crescent Manufacturing Company was founded in Seattle, Washington, in 1883 as Larsen Extract Company. By the early twentieth century, Crescent was manufacturing 75 different extracts including Mapleine, as well as importing spices, coffee, and nuts. Crescent was sold to McCormick and Company in 1989, and consolidated its operations in Kent, Washington in 1990.
ID Number:2019.92.RefBrandy
Date:Circa 1980
Bottle of Pure Peppermint Extract from Crescent Mfg. Co., ca. 1980
The Crescent Manufacturing Company was founded in Seattle, Washington, in 1883 as Larsen Extract Company. By the early twentieth century, Crescent was manufacturing 75 different extracts including Mapleine, as well as importing spices, coffee, and nuts. Crescent was sold to McCormick and Company in 1989, and consolidated its operations in Kent, Washington in 1990.
ID Number:2019.92.RefPeppermint
Date:Circa 1980
IBM 5150 Personal Computer with monitor and keyboard, ca. 1981
The IBM Personal Computer model number 5150, the original version of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform, was introduced in 1981. One of the earliest desktop computers on the market, IBM helped standardize the PC for worldwide consumption. The donor of this IBM PC, who grew up in Shoreline, remembers drafting book reports and playing an early digital baseball game…
ID Number:2019.104.1
Date:Circa 1981
Apple IIe Personal Computer with monitor and keyboard, ca. 1983
The donor of this Apple IIe PC grew up in Shoreline and remembers playing an early digital murder mystery game on a floppy disk on this computer in the 1980s.
ID Number:2019.104.Ref
Date:Circa 1983
GMSS watch, ca. 1980s-1990s
This watch belonged to Louise McKinney (1930-2012) who was a part-owner of GMSS, a company which ran businesses at SeaTac Airport. In 1984 the FAA notified the Port of Seattle that SeaTac airport may not be in compliance with a federal rule that requires minorities and women to participate in business ownership at airports that receive federal funds. That year…
ID Number:2019.105.14
Date:Circa 1980-1990
Candy tin for Brown & Haley Almond Roca candies, ca. 1980
Brown & Haley, founded in Tacoma and still in operation as of 2019, began as a candy company before WWI but hit it big with the invention of Almond Roca in 1923. In 1927, they began packaging it in a pink tin, which extended the shelf life. Besides the taste, it was the candy's ability to travel well and keep,…
ID Number:2019.Candy.01
Date:Circa 1980
Heart-shaped box from Fran's Chocolates, 2018
Fran Bigelow opened her original shop, Fran’s Patisserie & Chocolate Specialties, in Seattle in 1982. Today, there are four Seattle-area boutiques plus mail order and wholesale lines of truffles, caramels, bars, and chocolate-covered nuts and fruit. President Barak Obama is among Fran’s Chocolates fans and he would gift Gray and Smoked Salt Caramels to White House visitors.
ID Number:2019.Candy.02
Date:2018
Cardboard carrier with 4 bottles of Starbucks "Mazagran Sparkling Coffee", ca. 1995
In 1994, Starbucks partnered with Pepsi to launch this bottled coffee soda and sell it in grocery stores. The name Mazagran comes from the French Foreign Legion posted in Algeria in the 19th century. The new carbonated coffee drink was not well-received and was pulled from the shelves by 1995. At which time Starbucks and Pepsi launched the bottled Frappacino…
ID Number:2019.Mazagran
Date:Circa 1995
Microsoft Typing Tutor II for the Apple II 5.25" disk and manual, 1982
This diskette and manual are part of a collection donated by Frank Catalano who was one of the first local broadcast journalists to cover the personal computer revolution in the 1980s. At that time, he created and hosted the weekly Northwest Computing show for KING-AM and, in the 1990s, tracked the tech industry with a long-running "Byte Me" column that…
ID Number:2020.4.1
Date:1982
Product package for Microsoft "Bob" software, 1994
This software package is part of a collection donated by Frank Catalano who was one of the first local broadcast journalists to cover the personal computer revolution in the 1980s. At that time, he created and hosted the weekly Northwest Computing show for KING-AM and, in the 1990s, tracked the tech industry with a long-running "Byte Me" column that first…
ID Number:2020.4.3
Date:1994