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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
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Seattle Police Department bicycle patrol, Seattle, June 5, 1990
Although bicycle patrol units had been used in some large cities in the 19th century, bicycles were gradually dropped in favor of motorcycles or cars. The Seattle Police Department re-instituted the practice in 1987, starting with two officers. Bicycles allowed the officers to move about the urban and suburban setting quickly and easily.Here, Alex Wiggins, Tony Little, and Steve Kilburg…
ID Number:2000.107.180.15.01
Date:1990
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Officer with police dog, Seattle, October 9, 1973
Sasha, a four-year old German shepherd, received her graduation diploma from training master Larry S. Franklin at a ceremony at the Seattle Police Athletic Association training facility. She had undergone ten weeks of training in order to join the K-9 unit. Her duties will include tracking down robbery suspects and locating stolen property. Caption information derived from captions written by…
ID Number:2000.107.180.15.02
Date:1973
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Typesetting machine hanging from crane, Seattle, December 5, 1948
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer was founded in 1863 as the weekly Seattle Gazette, and was long one of the city's two daily newspapers, along with The Seattle Times, until it became an online-only publication on March 18, 2009. In the mid-1940s, the newspaper held a nationwide design competition for a new building at Sixth Avenue and Wall Street in downtown Seattle.…
ID Number:2000.107.180.37.01
Date:1948
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Crowd watching Pow Wow event in Seward Park, Seattle, August 7, 1949
The Rainier District Pow Wow began in the midst of the Great Depression as a day-long community picnic at Seward Park. Between 1934 and 1992, when it ended, pow wow events paralleled what was going on in the rest of the country, celebrating neighborhood commerce in the 1930s, patriotism during World War II, the Baby Boom of the late 1940s…
ID Number:2000.107.185.01.01
Date:1949
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Women in husband-calling contest at Rainier District Pow Wow, Seattle, August 7, 1949
The Rainier District Pow Wow began in the midst of the Great Depression as a day-long community picnic at Seward Park. Between 1934 and 1992, when it ended, pow wow events paralleled what was going on in the rest of the country, celebrating neighborhood commerce in the 1930s, patriotism during World War II, the Baby Boom of the late 1940s…
ID Number:2000.107.185.01.02
Date:1949
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Mothers holding Baby Beauty Contest winners, Seattle, August 7, 1949
The Rainier District Pow Wow began in the midst of the Great Depression as a day-long community picnic at Seward Park. Between 1934 and 1992, when it ended, pow wow events paralleled what was going on in the rest of the country, celebrating neighborhood commerce in the 1930s, patriotism during World War II, the Baby Boom of the late 1940s…
ID Number:2000.107.185.01.03
Date:1949
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Apartment building set for demolition, Seattle, February 10, 1982
In the early 1980s, the state of Washington planned to widen the western end of Interstate 90 (I-90) and extend it to meet Interstate 5 (I-5) in Seattle’s Central Area. This expansion required the demolition of the Atlantic Street neighborhood near the I-90 overpass at Rainier Avenue. State agents began buying property in Atlantic Street and coercing residents into moving…
ID Number:2000.107.185.01.04
Date:1982