124 results for: Popular Culture
Poster
Ballard Bitter poster, Seattle, circa 1986
Redhook Ale Brewery was established in 1981 by Gordon Bowker and Paul Shipman in a garage in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood. One of the company's most popular beers, Ballard Bitter, was first brewed in 1985, when craft beer was still a very small market. However, the popularity of Ballard Bitter soon allowed Redhook to expand operations into a former trolley barn…
ID Number:2016.95.1
Date:Circa 1986
Program
Seattle Totems program, 1967
The Seattle Totems were a professional ice hockey franchise in the Pacific Coast Hockey League (later Western Hockey League or WHL) from 1944-1974 and in the Central Hockey League for the 1974-1975 season. The Totems won three WHL Lester Patrick Cup championships: 1959, 1967, and 1968.The appropriation of Indigenous names for professional sports teams has been popular since the 19th…
ID Number:2017.19.1
Date:1967
Poster
Boomerang poster, Seattle, circa 1980
One of Seattle's most popular local children's television programs of the 1970s and 1980s was "Boomerang," which aired original episodes from 1975-1980, and reruns for several additional years. The host of the program was Marni Nixon (1930-2016), a classically trained singer and Broadway star who was known for dubbing singing voices for a number of more famous but less vocally-talented…
ID Number:2018.5.14
Date:Circa 1980
Serial
Poplust Magazine, Vol. 3, #2, 1997
Musician Rob Morgan founded his "bubblegum punk" group The Squirrels in 1984 and quickly became part of the Seattle alternative rock and arts scene. For several years Mr. Morgan also published a popular zine, "Poplust," which was completely hand-lettered and hand-drawn. The quarterly publication offered comics, reviews, and articles on pop culture by a variety of local writers, artists, and…
ID Number:2018.16.4
Date:1997
Poster
Deep Six Record Release Party poster, March 1986
In 1985, Tina Casale and Chris Hanzsek started a new record label in Seattle, C/Z Records, and made their first record, a compilation of 6 local bands. Released in March 1986, the "Deep Six" compilation received scant attention at the time, but was later recognized as a important recording of the early Seattle music scene, documenting the bands and "punk-meets-metal"…
ID Number:2018.86.113
Date:1986
Poster
Soundgarden concert poster, December 11, 1985
The pioneer grunge band Soundgarden was formed in Seattle in 1984 by singer and rhythm guitarist Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto. This poster advertises a Soundgarden concert in December 1985 at The Vogue at 2018 1st Avenue in Seattle.
ID Number:2018.86.115
Date:1985
Serial
Punk Phoenix Rising fanzine, November 1981
Shown here is Issue No. 1 of "Punk Phoenix Rising," a Seattle punk fanzine created by Carol Pearsall. Pearsall had been a fan of the short-lived zine "Desperate Times," a product of the area’s underground/alternative/punk music scene, published in only six issues in the summer of 1981. When that magazine ceased publication, Pearsall created "Punk Phoenix Rising," "until something comes…
ID Number:2018.86.125
Date:1981
Serial
Pop Lust magazine, No. 3, Spring 1983
Musician Rob Morgan founded his "bubblegum punk" group The Squirrels in 1984 and quickly became part of the Seattle alternative rock and arts scene. For several years Mr. Morgan also published a popular zine, "Pop Lust," which was completely hand-lettered and hand-drawn. The quarterly publication offered comics, reviews, and articles on pop culture by a variety of local writers, artists,…
ID Number:2018.86.126
Date:1983
Serial
Subcharge, news magazine of Rock Theatre, Seattle, February 1985
A short-lived Seattle venue now frequently cited as the birthplace of grunge, The Rock Theater, at 410 Fifth Avenue South (and later briefly in Lower Queen Anne), actually had two performance spaces: the Omni Room and Gorilla Gardens. Often referred to as simply Gorilla Gardens, the club hosted all-ages shows for out-of-town bands as well as local punk and metal…
ID Number:2018.86.127
Date:1985
Poster
Science Fiction X-Po poster, January 14-16, circa 1980
From 1977 to 1983 the Seattle Center hosted a three-day science fiction event called "Science Fiction X-po," which featured showings of vintage sci-fi films, space art for kids, exhibits, merchandise, and keynote lectures from scientists.The poster pictured here is either from the first festival in 1977, or from the last in 1983. Caption information sources: "Science Fiction X-po planned," The…
ID Number:2019.3.7
Date:Circa 1980