3221 results for: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Mariana Matthews writing a parking ticket, Seattle, May 7, 1991
In the spring of 1991, the city of Seattle's Parking Enforcement Unit ran a 2-week experiment to see whether foot patrols might be more efficent than the usual three-wheeled gas-powered carts. Officer Mariana Matthews, shown here on foot patrol writing an overtime parking citation near Pike Place Market, reports that while she is no fan of the scooters, she does…
ID Number:2000.107.178.07.01
Date:1991
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Bernie Whitebear and Pete Schnurman at Daybreak Star construction site, Seattle, June 9, 1976
In 1970, a group of activists led by Bernie Whitebear (1937-2000), Sin-Aikst, or Sinixt (now one of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation), began a protest which culminated in approval for the development of both a cultural center for Indigenous peoples and a municipal park on decommissioned surplus land at Seattle's Fort Lawton site. After several years spent raising…
ID Number:2000.107.178.13.01
Date:1976
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Cecilia and George White welcoming visitors at Daybreak Star Cultural Center, Seattle, March 8, 1985
On March 8, 1970, about 100 members and sympathizers of United Indian People's Council (later United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, or UIATF) occupied Fort Lawton, a 1,100-acre army post in Seattle's Magnolia neighborhood. They were inspired by the passage of a bill signed by President Richard Nixon, which granted non-federal entities the ability to obtain surplus federal lands for…
ID Number:2000.107.178.14.01
Date:1985
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Alex Williams carving mask at Daybreak Star Cultural Center, Seattle, April 13, 1978
Here, Nez-Perce carver Alex Williams shapes a piece of alder wood into a totem mask during a workshop at the Daybreak Star Cultural Center in Discovery Park. Indigenous artists taught painting, carving, and drawing at the Center to anyone who was interested, free of charge. Native Americans from throughout the Northwest were welcomed as participating artists at the center. The…
ID Number:2000.107.178.14.02
Date:1978
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Crowd gathered after bank robbery at Pike Place Market, Seattle, November 6, 1964
In November 1964 the Pike Place Market branch of the National Bank of Commerce was robbed of $870 by a man carrying a small pistol. Six days later Seattle Police officers investigating Charles Walter Endicott (b. 1938) for illegal possession of narcotics arrested him for the robbery as well. Endicott, who identified himself as an unemployed salesman, later plead guilty…
ID Number:2000.107.179.19.02
Date:1964
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Anne Focke reviewing Pike Place Market piggy bank designs, Seattle, August 28, 1986
During the summer of 1985 the Pike Place Market Foundation held a competition in which local artists submitted designs for a piggy-bank sculpture that would collect spare change from Pike Place Market visitors to help support the market's food bank, child-care center, clinic, and senior center.In this image, Anna Focke, a Pike Place Market Foundation board member and one of…
ID Number:2000.107.179.19.03
Date:1986
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Spectators watching Pike Place Soap Box Derby, Seattle, March 26, 1972
The idea for Seattle's All-American Pike Place Soap Box Derby came from Bill King, an artist selected Mayor of Pike Place Market by leaders within the market vendor community. Federally funded and sponsored by the Seattle Arts Commission, the event started in 1970 as part of the annual Pike Place Market Street Fair and was intended to encourage the making…
ID Number:2000.107.179.21.02
Date:1972
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Gypsy Gyppo String Band playing at Pike Place Market, Seattle, May 27, 1973
Between 1971 and 2008 the Pike Place Merchants Association hosted an annual Memorial Day street festival at the Pike Place Market. Proceeds from the festival went to the Pike Place Market Foundation to help improve the market.In this image the Gypsy Gyppo String Band plays "old-time stuff" for a crowd at the 1973 Pike Place Market Street Fair. The band…
ID Number:2000.107.179.21.03
Date:1973
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Customers listening to fish monger at Pike Place Fish Market, Seattle, August 6, 1973
The Pike Place Fish Market is an open-air shop located in Seattle's Pike Place Market, famous for its team of mongers tossing customers' selections from the ice-packed displays at the front to the scales in the back. The shop was founded in 1930 and purchased in 1965 by John Yokoyama (b. 1940), an employee, who then sold the shop to…
ID Number:2000.107.179.21.04
Date:1973
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Alice Signey receiving award from Wes Uhlman at Pike Place Market, Seattle, August 17, 1973
The Pike Place Market's 66th-anniversary celebration was held in Seattle August 17-18, 1973. Bluegrass, jazz, and jug bands provided live music, and featured activities included children's arts and crafts booths, Soap Box Derby Races, and 66-cent sales at many shops and stalls within the market.In this image Alice Mary (Cooper) Signey (1923-1999) is presented with the grand prize for best…
ID Number:2000.107.179.21.05
Date:1973