283 results for: Retail and Department Stores
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Bruce Nordstrom at the Nordstrom, Inc. annual meeting, Seattle, May 16, 1989
Bruce Nordstrom (1933-2024) was a businessman and philanthropist in Seattle. The grandson of founder John W. Nordstrom, he served as president and chair of the Nordstrom department store as it grew from a chain of shoe stores to become an international fashion retailer.As a youth, Bruce worked in the stockroom and on the sales floor of the downtown Seattle Nordstrom…
ID Number:2000.107.133.10.03
Date:1989
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Mekong Rainier Supermarket in Rainier Valley, Seattle, July 12, 1983
In the early 1980s, the demographics of Rainier Valley were changing quickly. The area had been mostly white through the 1960s. However, the Boeing bust in the early 1970s, combined with freeway building projects, began pushing Black residents of the Central Area further south into Rainier Valley where housing was more available and rents were cheaper. New construction and condominiums…
ID Number:2000.107.151.05.05
Date:1983
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Cove Mid-City Market, Seattle, March 27, 1931
This image of the new Cove Mid-City Market shows its convenient location on the corner of Elliott Avenue West and West Galer Street, at the east approach to the recently constructed Garfield Street Bridge (now the Magnolia Bridge) to Seattle's Magnolia neighborhood. Signs in image: Piggly Wiggly; Cove Mid-City Market; Wells Butcher's Supply Co.Caption information derived from captions written by…
ID Number:2000.107.176.37.03
Date:1931
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Motor Inn Drive-In Market, Seattle, December 12, 1935
This image shows the Motor Inn Drive-In Market at Queen Anne Avenue North and Republican Street, in Seattle's Lower Queen Anne neighborhood. Anchored by G.O. Guy Drugs, the market also housed a grocery, bakery, and delicatessen; fish and produce stands; a Shell gas station; and ample off-street parking. Signs in image: Uptown Toggery; G. O. Guy Drugs; Benjamin Franklin Thrift…
ID Number:2000.107.176.37.04
Date:1935
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Joe Torlai selling produce at Inner City Market, Seattle, August 2, 1975
In this image Joe Torlai, a second-generation Renton farmer, weighs some of his produce for sale at the new Inner City Farmer's Market at 18th Avenue and East Cherry Street in Seattle's Central District neighborhood. This same year Mr. Torlai was honored as the youngest farmer at the Pike Place Market in conjunction with the market's 68th birthday. Caption information…
ID Number:2000.107.176.37.05
Date:1975
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Produce stand at Inner City Market, Seattle, July 31, 1976
In this image, young Ray Daniels weighs produce grown on his grandfather's farm as he serves a customer at the Inner City Farmer's Market at 18th Avenue and East Cherry Street in Seattle's Central District neighborhood. The Immaculate Conception Church, visible in the background, hosted the market from June through October. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff…
ID Number:2000.107.176.37.06
Date:1976
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Ray Daniels selling produce at Inner City Market, Seattle, July 31, 1976
In this image, young Ray Daniels weighs produce grown on his grandfather's farm as he serves a customer at the Inner City Farmer's Market at 18th Avenue and East Cherry Street in Seattle's Central District neighborhood. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photo.
ID Number:2000.107.176.37.07
Date:1976
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Family selling produce at Inner City Farmers Market, Seattle, July 31, 1976
In this image, youngsters help their family sell produce at the Inner City Farmer's Market at 18th Avenue and East Cherry Street in Seattle's Central District neighborhood. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photo.
ID Number:2000.107.176.37.08
Date:1976
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J. B. McCrummen selling produce at U-District farmers market, Seattle, April 23, 1977
In this image J. B. McCrummen, director of the Hunger Action Center, sells produce at a farmer's market on University Way NE in Seattle's University District neighborhood. Beginning in 1993, the Neighborhood Farmers Market Alliance sought to bring various farmer's markets in Seattle together and as of 2018 operates eight markets around the city, including the U-District Neighborhood Farmers Market.…
ID Number:2000.107.176.37.09
Date:1977
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Tina Head staffing stall at Mount Baker farmers market, Seattle, August 3, 1980
In this image Tina Head watches over a produce stand at a farmer's market in Seattle's Mount Baker neighborhood. Beginning in 1993, the Neighborhood Farmers Market Alliance sought to bring various farmer's markets in Seattle together and as of 2018 operates eight markets around the city, including the U-District Neighborhood Farmers Market. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer…
ID Number:2000.107.176.37.10
Date:1980