3224 results for: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The
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Intersection of Beacon Avenue S. and 15th Avenue S., 1974
Beacon Hill was originally inhabited by the Duwamish people, who had a village called Tal-tal-kus at the western foot of the hill. Settlers began moving onto Beacon Hill in the 1850s and growth accelerated around the turn of the 20th century. Starting in the 1920s, Chinese, Italian, and Japanese immigrants settled in Beacon Hill. After World War II, the trend…
ID Number:2000.107.189.08.01
Date:1974
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Aerial view of Empire Way and Sick's Stadium, July 11, 1953
Empire Way’s route was first laid out in 1913, as a state highway heading southeast out of Seattle. It was named for James J. Hill, the head of the Great Northern Railway, who was nicknamed the “Empire Builder.” At first, Empire Way was put together from parts of older roads on the same route. From the 1930s to the 1950s,…
ID Number:2000.107.189.11.01
Date:1953
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Carroll's Fine Jewelry street clock on Fourth Avenue, Seattle, January 4, 1974
This street clock was commissioned by Thomas J. Carroll, the founder of Carroll's Fine Jewelry, established in 1895 in Seattle. The clock was made by Seattle clockmakers Joseph Mayer and Sons and stood for decades at the jewelry store’s entrance at Fourth Avenue and Pike Street. Carroll's Fine Jewelry closed in 2008, and that same year the clock was donated…
ID Number:2000.107.189.13.01
Date:1974
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Carroll's Fine Jewelry street clock on Fourth Avenue, Seattle, January 4, 1974
This street clock was commissioned by Thomas J. Carroll, the founder of Carroll's Fine Jewelry, established in 1895 in Seattle. The clock was made by Seattle clockmakers Joseph Mayer and Sons and stood for decades at the jewelry store’s entrance at Fourth Avenue and Pike Street. Carroll's Fine Jewelry closed in 2008, and that same year the clock was donated…
ID Number:2000.107.189.13.02
Date:1974
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Catfish Corner menu, 1997
Woodrow (Woody) and Rosemary (Rosie) Jackson opened their Catfish Corner restaurant at 2726 E. Cherry St and Martin Luther King, Jr. Way in 1985, specializing in “Southern, farm-raised catfish.” The Jacksons sold the business to new owners in 2009, but the popular restaurant closed due to financial difficulties in 2014. In 2021, Woody and Rosie’s grandson Terrell Jackson opened “Jackson’s…
ID Number:2000.107.189.14.03
Date:1997
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View of Rainier Avenue and Lake Way looking east, March 1954
Seattle's Atlantic neighborhood (which has also been referred to as Yesler/Atlantic and Judkins Park) is a triangular community in the Central District area, between Mount Baker Ridge and Beacon Hill. One of oldest residential neighborhoods, it was home to Seattle's largest Italian enclaves during the early years of the twentieth century. Like other neighborhoods in central and southeast Seattle, Black…
ID Number:2000.107.189.16.01
Date:1954
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Interior of Shelly's Leg bar, Seattle, March 22, 1976
Shelly's Leg was the first publicly gay disco and bar in Seattle when it opened on November 13, 1973, in a converted hotel in Pioneer Square at the intersection of South Main Street and Alaskan Way. Co-owner Shelly Bauman (1947-2010) funded the wildly popular party spot with settlement money from an accident at the Bastille Day Parade in 1970 which…
ID Number:2000.107.189.27.01
Date:1976
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"Soul pole" arriving at Douglass-Truth Branch of Seattle Public Library, April 24, 1973
In this image Raqib Mu'ied (formerly Gregory X), at one time the art department director of the Rotary Boys Club, watches as the 21-foot high "Soul Pole, " a totem pole depicting African-American history given to the Library by members of the club, is erected at the Henry L. Yesler Memorial Branch (now Douglass-Truth Branch) of the Seattle Public Library.…
ID Number:2000.107.190.05.01
Date:1973
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Collage of automatic traffic signals, April 21, 1924
Traffic signals were first tested in Seattle in 1924, through a collaboration between the Street Department and the police traffic division. The first automatic traffic signal was installed at Fourth Avenue South and Jackson Street for motorists to determine whether the automatic method was better than traffic control by an officer stationed in the center of the intersection.This graphic by…
ID Number:2000.107.190.05.02
Date:1924
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Morning traffic on Roosevelt Way, Seattle, August 9, 1946
In this image, a slow-moving stream of automobiles clog southbound lanes of Roosevelt Way to East 50th during peak morning traffic. The extra heavy commute was due to the temporary closure of the Montlake Bridge, forcing motorists to use the Fremont and Aurora Bridges instead. Signs in image: Mobilgas; Osborne's RadioCaption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and…
ID Number:2000.107.190.05.03
Date:1946