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Exterior of Venetian Theater, Seattle, 1946
Seattle's Venetian Theater opened in 1926 at 1427 E. Pine Street in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood during a boom of theaters built to accommodate motion pictures. One of Seattle’s largest and most impressive neighborhood movie houses at the time, the Venetian was a second-run movie theater, playing movies that had already proved popular at the city’s larger downtown theaters. The…
ID Number:1983.10.16609.1
Date:1946
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Crowd watching Seafair hydroplane races from above Lake Washington floating bridge, Seattle, 1952
Handwritten on sleeve: '52 Seafair from Lake Washington Floating Bridge.Webster & Stevens number: 52-0119
ID Number:1983.10.18197.1
Date:1952
Ephemera
Trianon Ballroom "Souvenir of a Pleasant Evening" photo holder, circa 1945
The Trianon Ballroom was a major music venue in Seattle from its opening in 1927 until its close in 1956. Founded by the former Butler Hotel manager, John E. Savage, the Trianon Ballroom operated with strict racially segregationist policies for many years. Savage attributed this policy to a non-existent law that he claimed prohibited "mixed [race] dancing" in Seattle. Despite…
ID Number:1985.68.1a
Date:Circa 1945
Audio recording
Oral history interview with Morris Alhadeff and Jerry Ross, June 9, 1985
Interview with Morris Alhadeff and Jerry Ross conducted by Lorraine McConaghy for the Life on the Homefront Oral History Project on June 9, 1985. In the conversation, they discuss Victory Square, a war bonds, and morale building effort organized by numerous volunteers during World War II. They also talk about various entertainments, including radio, theater, and burlesque.Morris Jerome "Morrie" Alhadeff…
ID Number:1985.134.1
Date:1985
Audio recording
Oral history interview with Inez Sauer, February 26, 1985
This interview with Inez Sauer was conducted by Lorraine McConaghy for the Life on the Homefront Oral History Project on February 26, 1985. Sauer was born in West Seattle in 1910. She married in 1929 and moved to Akron, Ohio. The family returned to Seattle with three children at the start of World War II. During the war, Inez Sauer…
ID Number:1985.134.21
Date:1985
Videorecording
Oral history interview with Morris Alhadeff, September 1985
Morris “Morrie” Alhadeff (1914-1994) was General Manager and Chairman of the Board of the Longacres Racetrack in Renton, Washington. Alhadeff began working at Longacres in 1947 and took over running running the facility after Longacres founder (and Alhadeff’s father-in-law) Joseph Gottstein died in 1970. He and his wife, Joan Gottstein Alhadeff, were strong supporters of civil rights, and great patrons…
ID Number:1985.135.1
Date:1985
Photograph
Motorcycles in race, Kent, 1966
On Saturday and Sunday, July 9-10, 1966, the second annual All America Race Festival took place at Kent's Pacific Raceways. Sponsored by the track and Seattle radio station KJR, the festival included drag racing, AMA motorcycle road racing, stock car racing, sky diving, and a go-kart endurance race. This photo shows racing motorcycles on an s-curve at the track. Handwritten…
ID Number:1986.5.528.2
Date:1966
Photograph
Motorcycle in race, Kent, 1966
On Saturday and Sunday, July 9-10, 1966, the second annual All America Race Festival took place at Kent's Pacific Raceways. Sponsored by the track and Seattle radio station KJR, the festival included drag racing, AMA motorcycle road racing, stock car racing, sky diving, and a go-kart endurance race. This photo focuses on one of the motorcycles in the race. Handwritten…
ID Number:1986.5.528.3
Date:1966
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Girl riding carousel at Fun Forest, Seattle Center, March 25, 1967
Originally built for the 1962 World's Fair, the 74-acre Seattle Center is an arts, educational, tourism and entertainment center in Seattle. A favorite spot at Seattle Center for many kids was the Fun Forest, an amusement park complete with roller coasters and carnival-style games. The Fun Forest closed in 2011 and since 2012 the site has been occupied by Chihuly…
ID Number:1986.5.2382.1
Date:1967
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Children hunting for eggs, Seattle Center, March 25, 1967
Originally built for the 1962 World's Fair, the 74-acre Seattle Center is an arts, educational, tourism and entertainment center in Seattle. A favorite spot at Seattle Center for many kids was the Fun Forest, an amusement park complete with roller coasters and carnival-style games. The Fun Forest closed in 2011 and since 2012 the site has been occupied by Chihuly…
ID Number:1986.5.2382.2
Date:1967