30 results for: Temperance and Prohibition
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Imperial Liquor Co. sign at start of Prohibition, Seattle, circa 1916
In Washington state, Prohibition lasted from 1916 until 1933. During that time, making, selling, owning, or drinking alcoholic beverages was against the law. This photo shows a farewell sign in the window of a liquor store. Signs in image: Imperial Liquor Co. This is the end of our sinning! Ice cream and candy for us - Help us move this…
ID Number:1983.10.12280
Date:Circa 1916
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Elise and Roy Olmstead, Seattle, 1925
During Seattle's Prohibition years in the 1920s, Roy Olmstead became one of the largest and most successful bootleggers in King County. Learning how the trade operated from involvement in raids and arrests while serving as a Seattle Police Lieutenant, Olmstead noted the lack of organization of many bootleggers and began his own operation His operation eventually grew to include many…
ID Number:1986.5G.2261.1
Date:1925
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Olmstead residence, Seattle, circa 1925
During Seattle's Prohibition years in the 1920s, Roy Olmstead became one of the largest and most successful bootleggers in King County. Learning how the trade operated from involvement in raids and arrests while serving as a Seattle Police Lieutenant, Olmstead noted the lack of organization of many bootleggers and began his own operation. After an arrest and dismissal from the…
ID Number:1986.5G.2263.1
Date:Circa 1925
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Federal grand jury in Roy Olmstead bootlegging case, Seattle, 1926
During Seattle's Prohibition years in the 1920s, Roy Olmstead became one of the largest and most successful bootleggers in King County. Learning how the trade operated from involvement in raids and arrests while serving as a Seattle Police Lieutenant, Olmstead noted the lack of organization of many bootleggers and began his own operation. After an arrest and dismissal from the…
ID Number:1986.5G.2266.1
Date:1926
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Roy and Elise Olmstead with Roy's mother Sarah at courthouse, Seattle, 1926
During Seattle's Prohibition years in the 1920s, Roy Olmstead became one of the largest and most successful bootleggers in King County. Learning how the trade operated from involvement in raids and arrests while serving as a Seattle Police Lieutenant, Olmstead noted the lack of organization of many bootleggers and began his own operation. After an arrest and dismissal from the…
ID Number:1986.5G.2267.1
Date:1926
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Roy Olmstead in a boat arriving at a dock, Steilacoom, 1931
During Seattle's Prohibition years in the 1920s, Roy Olmstead became one of the largest and most successful bootleggers in King County. Learning how the trade operated from involvement in raids and arrests while serving as a Seattle Police Lieutenant, Olmstead noted the lack of organization of many bootleggers and began his own operation. After an arrest and dismissal from the…
ID Number:1986.5G.2269.1
Date:1931
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Elise Olmstead, Seattle, circa 1926
Elise Olmstead was the second wife of Roy Olmstead, one of the largest and most successful bootleggers in King County during the 1920s Prohibition years. Born in London, England in 1899 as Elsie Parsche, Elise originally immigrated to Vancouver, and after some back and forth across the border, by 1922 she was living full-time in Seattle as Elsie Campbell. At…
ID Number:1986.5G.2278.1
Date:Circa 1926
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Radio station KFQX in Olmstead home, Seattle, 1924
Roy and Elise Olmstead purchased a large home in the Mount Baker neighborhood in 1924. They started a commercial radio station called KFQX, based in a spare room of their residence. After Prohibition agents raided the home and arrested Roy Olmstead, they speculated that the couple used the radio broadcasts of children's stories to send coded messages to rumrunners, who…
ID Number:1987.30.1
Date:1924
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Elise Olmstead reading story book into microphone, circa 1924
Elise Olmstead, originally from England, was the second wife of Roy Olmstead, one of the most notorious bootleggers in King County during the Prohibition years of the 1920s. The Olmsteads started a radio station in their Mt. Baker home. Elise Olmstead read children's stories that were broadcast, and Prohibition agents speculated that the stories contained coded messages for rumrunners. This…
ID Number:1987.30.2
Date:Circa 1924
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Old Rocking Chair Club, 115 14th Ave. S., Seattle, May 3, 1945
The origin of Seattle's Jazz scene grew out of the unique political and social climate of Prohibition and 1920s and was centered around Jackson Street in what is now the Chinatown - International District neighborhood. A decade later, the beginning of the swing era attracted new listeners to jazz music, particularly young people. The relatively small size of the jazz…
ID Number:2000.107.174.16.01
Date:1945