3221 results for: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The
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Baptist missionary Hanh Nguyen with Giu Vo and her family in their apartment, Seattle, March 1982
After the Vietnam War ended in April 1975 with the fall of South Vietnam to North Vietnamese communist forces, many thousands of people from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos fled violence and persecution in their home countries and sought refuge in the United States and elsewhere.This image shows a family of refugees in their apartment shortly after arriving in Seattle. Hanh…
ID Number:2000.107.132.14.01
Date:1982
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The Nguyens in their Pioneer Square grocery store, Seattle, December 28, 1977
Thuy-Ngan (left) and Hy-Van Nguyen came to Seattle in 1975 with their seven-month-old son. They were part of the large number of refugees who settled in the Seattle area after the fall of Saigon. Both in their 30s, they had held professional jobs in Vietnam: Thuy-Nan taught French at the University of Saigon, and her husband was an architect. Unable…
ID Number:2000.107.132.14.02
Date:1977
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Mau Duc and Cuc Nguyen working at New Saigon Market, Seattle, December 1990
Mau Duc Nguyen and his family were among thousands of people who escaped from Vietnam after the fall of the country to the communists. Having been a South Vietnam naval officer, Mau was sent to a prison camp but managed to escape. After months of planning, he and his wife Cuc and their three children, plus various family members and…
ID Number:2000.107.132.15.01
Date:1990
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Phuong Nguyen cooking in her restaurant, Seattle, September 1978
Phuong Nguyen, her husband Phi-Hung Nguyen, and their seven children arrived in Seattle from Vietnam in 1975. Phi-Hung, a former university professor in art and sculpture, enrolled in a program to help him find a new job, and Phuong enrolled in a restaurant management program. By 1978, Phi-Hung was working at a professional level in graphics design, Phuong had opened…
ID Number:2000.107.132.16.03
Date:1978
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Thien Nguyen in his lab at UW, Seattle, October 2, 1991
Thien Nguyen took his first course - calculus - at the University of Washington when only eight years old, and graduated at age 15 with a degree in bioengineering. He then entered the university’s highly selective MD/PhD program that combines medical practice with scientific research. After received his MD and PhD degrees from UW, Nguyen completed a residency in Neurology…
ID Number:2000.107.132.16.05
Date:1991
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Tho Nguyen meeting his family at Sea-Tac airport, Seattle, July 26, 1983
After the 1975 fall of Saigon, Tho Nguyen, a South Vietnamese army veteran, spent a year in a prison camp. Once released, he and his wife Lachanh tried to escape from Vietnam, taking their four children and her mother in an overcrowded boat. One by one, the children and Lachanh’s mother died. The boat was intercepted by a Russian ship…
ID Number:2000.107.132.16.06
Date:1983
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Dave Niehaus commentating on a Mariners game, Seattle, June 1980
Dave Niehaus (1935-2010) was the play-by-play commentator for the Seattle Mariners from their beginning in 1977 through the 2010 season. His optimistic style and clear love of baseball won him affection from Mariners fans despite the team’s frequent lack of success on the field. Several of his catchphrases became well known, such as “Fly away!” for home runs and "It’s…
ID Number:2000.107.132.22.01
Date:1980
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Kurt Cobain performing at the Paramount Theater, Seattle, November 1, 1991
Nirvana had their beginnings in the Seattle grunge scene, and widely popularized alternative rock. Members Kurt Cobain (1967-1994) and Krist Novoselic (b. 1965) were from Aberdeen, Washington.Here, Kurt Cobain performs at the Paramount Theater during a Nirvana concert in November 1991. Their recently released second album “Nevermind” was climbing in the charts, propelled largely by the unexpected popularity of the…
ID Number:2000.107.132.29.01
Date:1991
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Nirvana performing during MTV taping at Pier 48, Seattle, December 13, 1993
In December 1993, the cable channel MTV recorded its “Live and Loud” concert special in Seattle. To be aired on New Year’s Eve, the concert was originally set to feature both Pearl Jam and Nirvana, but Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam's vocalist) had come down with the flu and had to cancel. After sets by the Breeders and Cypress Hill, Nirvana…
ID Number:2000.107.132.29.02
Date:1993
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Kurt Cobain performing at Seattle Center Arena, January 7, 1994
Nirvana had their beginnings in the Seattle grunge scene, and widely popularized alternative rock. Members Kurt Cobain (1967-1994) and Krist Novoselic (b. 1965) were from Aberdeen, Washington.Nirvana performed at the Seattle Center Arena on January 7-8, 1994, the last stop on their fall tour. Band members celebrated the end of the tour by trashing their instruments as well as the…
ID Number:2000.107.132.29.03
Date:1994