3251 results for: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The
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Santa Kemp at the Yesler Community Center, Seattle, December 19, 1994
The Seattle SuperSonics (commonly known as the Sonics) were a National Basketball Association (NBA) team based in Seattle, that played from 1967 until 2008. The Sonics competed in the league's Western Conference Pacific and Northwest divisions and won the NBA Championship in 1979. In 2008, the team's new ownership relocated to Oklahoma City, where they play as the Oklahoma City…
ID Number:2000.107.19941219.10.30
Date:1994
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David Cole of Microsoft with pickup truck, Redmond, February 15, 1995
Microsoft scheduled the release of Windows 95 for August 1995. With the huge growth of the personal computer software market, the company had to make sure that the complex new release was as trouble-free as possible. David Cole, Microsoft’s general manager for the testing and debugging effort, was quoted as saying that the new software is supposed to make PCs…
ID Number:2000.107.19950215.1.13
Date:1995
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Ken Griffey scoring the winning run in Game 5 of the American League Division Series at the Kingdome, Seattle, October 8, 1995
It was an historic baseball game - Seattle Mariners vs. New York Yankees in a must-win game 5 playoff to take the American League Division. In the bottom of the 11th inning, the M’s trailed 5-4. Edgar Martinez was the batter and he delivered a hit that became known as “The Double,” scoring both Joey Cora and Ken Griffey, Jr.…
ID Number:2000.107.19951008.36
Date:1995
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William Gray, head of the United Negro College Fund, at Microsoft, October 26, 1995
William H. Gray III (1941-2013) was a community activist, Baptist minister, and politician. Gray's activism started in 1970 when he successfully sued a landlord who refused to rent to him because of his race. In 1972, Gray returned to his hometown of Philadelphia and became the minister at Bright Hope Church, like his father and grandfather before him. Gray was…
ID Number:2000.107.19951026.3.19
Date:1995
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Bill Gates and Priscilla Wong at Minority Student Day at Microsoft, Redmond, October 26, 1995
Bill Gates and Paul Allen began working on microcomputers while still at Seattle’s Lakeside School. They founded Microsoft in 1975, and nearly a decade later, the company was recognized as the world's most powerful producer of microcomputer software. In the 1990s, a group of Black employees of Microsoft began holding an annual Minority Student Day program to encourage minority students…
ID Number:2000.107.19951026.4.35
Date:1995
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Symbolic objects for Kwanzaa celebration, December 29, 1995
Kwanzaa is a nonreligious celebration of African heritage in African-American culture, usually observed for seven days beginning December 26 and culminating in gift-giving and a big feastThis photo shows a display of symbolic objects used to celebrate Kwanzaa. including a mat (Mkeka) on which other symbols are placed, and a Kikombe cha Umoja (unity cup) for commemorating and giving shukrani…
ID Number:2000.107.19951229.3.10
Date:1995
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Two women in traditional dress for Kwanzaa celebration, December 29, 1995
Kwanzaa is a nonreligious celebration of African heritage in African-American culture, usually observed for seven days beginning December 26 and culminating in gift-giving and a big feastThis photo shows two young women, identified as Meaza Kafly and Almaz Winmu, wearing traditional African dress in preparation for a Kwanzaa family festival at the Seattle Art Museum. The festival celebrated African culture…
ID Number:2000.107.19951229.3.16
Date:1995
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Woman in traditional dress for Kwanzaa celebration, December 29, 1995
Kwanzaa is a nonreligious celebration of African heritage in African-American culture, usually observed for seven days beginning December 26 and culminating in gift-giving and a big feastThis photo shows a young women wearing traditional African dress in preparation for a Kwanzaa family festival being held at the Seattle Art Museum. The festival celebrated African culture with music, dance, and storytelling,…
ID Number:2000.107.19951229.3.26
Date:1995
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Jerry Dyer working at Microsoft's Redmond campus, June 25, 1996
MSNBC, a partnership between Microsoft and NBC News, was launched on July 15, 1996 as both a 24-hour cable TV news channel and interactive Internet site. While ultimate editorial control over content was held by NBC, Microsoft also developed reporting staff at its Redmond headquarters to generate and report its own stories. Reporters based at Microsoft focused on world economics,…
ID Number:2000.107.19960625.4.15
Date:1996
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Bill Nye watching an episode of his show, Seattle, July 15, 1996
Bill Nye moved to Seattle in 1977 to work as an engineer at Boeing and later for Sundstrand Data Control. In the early 1980s he began to do stand-up comedy and eventually was hired as a writer and performer on the Seattle TV comedy show Almost Live! It was there that he built the Bill Nye the Science Guy character,…
ID Number:2000.107.19960715.8.32
Date:1996