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Bartell Drugs building, Seattle, 1967
The first Bartell Drugs store opened in 1890, when George Bartell bought the Lake Washington Pharmacy located in what became the Leschi neighborhood. The Bartell Drug Company incorporated in 1904 and moved to downtown Seattle. It expanded in the early 20th century, coming to include a candy factory and photo lab in addition to pharmacy locations. The company remained under…
ID Number:1980.7067.1.8.1
Date:1967
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Coliseum Theater, Seattle, 1967
In March 1915, local lumber baron and businessman C. D. Stimson leased lots on the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and Pike Street to the newly formed Coliseum Company to build an elegant theater designed specifically for movies, then called photoplays. The Coliseum remained Seattle's premier movie house into the 1980s, when it lost out to suburban multiplexes. It closed…
ID Number:1980.7067.1.11.1
Date:Circa 1967
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Businesses at corner of Pine Street and Fourth Avenue, Seattle, 1967
This image shows the intersection of Pine Street and 4th Avenue, looking south along Fourth. Through the 1960s and 70s, proposals were put forward to convert this area into an urban park with retail and commercial spaces, but lawsuits and controversies delayed any work until 1986. The new Westlake Center opened on October 20, 1988, including an indoor mall, an…
ID Number:1980.7067.1.15.1
Date:1967
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People waiting to cross Pike Street at Fourth Ave., Seattle, 1967
This image shows the intersection of 4th Avenue and Pike Street, looking south along 4th. A Sander's Lunch diner advertising Arden ice cream is visible across the intersection, in the Joshua Green Building. The Carroll's Fine Jewelry street clock, which is now located at the Museum of History & Industry in Lake Union Park, can be seen behind the Pike…
ID Number:1980.7067.1.17.1
Date:1967
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Aerial view of Seattle, showing Grosvenor House, Seattle, circa 1967
The end of World War II stimulated a huge demand for housing in Seattle. The modernist-style Grosvenor House, a large reinforced concrete apartment building designed by Earl W. Morrison, was built in the Belltown/Denny Triangle area of the city. Its 18 stories, with 370 units, housed some 1200 people. The base of the building occupied a full block. It had…
ID Number:1980.7067.1.18.1
Date:Circa 1967
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View towards Pike Place market, Seattle, circa 1967
This image looks west along Pike Street across 1st Avenue toward the Pike Place Market, with cars stopped at a traffic light while a woman crosses the street. The Public Market Center clock and sign in the center of the image has been an icon of the Market since its installation in 1937. In the late 1960s there was a…
ID Number:1980.7067.1.21.1
Date:Circa 1967
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Businesses on Yesler Way near Occidental Ave S., 1967
This photograph, taken around 1967, shows the intersection of Yesler Way and Occidental Ave South. The building shown was originally named the Sanderson Block and it was constructed shortly after the Great Seattle Fire in 1889 to replace a wooden structure that had burned in the fire. It has been home to the Merchant's Cafe since opening in 1890, making…
ID Number:1980.7067.1.22.1
Date:1967
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Aerial view of Lake Union, taken from the southwest, Seattle, 1967
In 1882, lumber mills, shipyards, and other industries began to move north from Seattle’s waterfront to the shores of Lake Union. Industrial development continued with Seattle’s growth but shrank after World War II. A few shipyards remained by the late 1960s, plus some light industry, apartments, parking lots, fast food restaurants, marinas, and a seaplane terminal. Roads were built and…
ID Number:1980.7067.1.24.1
Date:1967
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Aerial view of Bartell Drugs building in downtown Seattle, 1967
The first Bartell Drugs store opened in 1890, when George Bartell bought the Lake Washington Pharmacy located in what became the Leschi neighborhood. The Bartell Drug Company incorporated in 1904 and moved to downtown Seattle. It expanded in early 20th century, coming to include a candy factory and photo lab in addition to pharmacy locations. The company remained under Bartell…
ID Number:1980.7067.1.26.1
Date:1967
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Street view of the Sanitary Public Market, Seattle, circa 1967
This image looks west across 1st Avenue to show the Sanitary Public Market building at the Pike Place Market, with a man pushing a cart on the sidewalk in front. In the late 1960s when this photo was taken, there was a debate about Pike Place Market's future - whether to demolish the Market and redevelop the land into apartments…
ID Number:1980.7067.1.33.1
Date:Circa 1967