3224 results for: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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People participating in a citizenship class at El Centro de la Raza, Seattle, January 21, 2003
Seattle had a growing Latino population in the late 1960s, and activists had been pressing the city for a building in which to establish a Chicano community center. Tired of having their requests ignored, in October 1972 they took over the abandoned Beacon Hill School on 16th Avenue South and renamed it El Centro de la Raza. After a 3-month…
ID Number:2000.107.20030123.CD06.002
Date:2003
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Spectators watch Lion Dance performers at Tet festival at Seattle Center, January 25, 2003
Tet, or Vietnamese Lunar New Year, is celebrated annually at the Seattle Center where festivities begin with a lion dance and continue with cooking demonstrations, music workshops, photo exhibits, martial arts, arts and crafts for kids, and Vietnamese Opera performances. In traditional Vietnamese culture, the first three days of the new year represent what will happen the rest of the…
ID Number:2000.107.20030126.CD02.01.001
Date:2003
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Spectators watch Lion Dance performers during Tet festival at Seattle Center, January 25, 2003
Tet, or Vietnamese Lunar New Year, is celebrated annually at the Seattle Center where festivities begin with a lion dance and continue with cooking demonstrations, music workshops, photo exhibits, martial arts, arts and crafts for kids, and Vietnamese Opera performances. In traditional Vietnamese culture, the first three days of the new year represent what will happen the rest of the…
ID Number:2000.107.20030126.CD02.01.002
Date:2003
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Marty Maloney with Harley Davidsons at the Pioneer Museum of Motorcycles, Tacoma, January 27, 2003
In September 2002 construction began on the Pioneer Motorcycle Museum in the Tacoma tide flats by the Thea Foss Waterway. Founder and CEO Marty Moloney created the museum as a way to exhibit his collection, host an on-site restoration and repair shop, and drive tourism to the largely industrial area. Unfortunately, the physical space was open only for a short…
ID Number:2000.107.20030127.CD05.001
Date:2003
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Larry Jacobson at RealNetworks, Inc. Seattle, January 28, 2003
RealNetworks is a Seattle-based digital media company founded in 1994. Originally known as Progressive Networks, the company pioneered streaming media technology in the early days of the internet. It developed RealAudio and RealVideo technologies and the RealPlayer software, which allowed users to stream audio and video over the web long before it became mainstream. Over time, the company shifted its…
ID Number:2000.107.20030128.CD01.001
Date:2003
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Mark Hallenback using the Mybus program on his phone, January 28, 2003
In the early 2000s, King County Metro, with the University of Washington, launched a program called “Mybus on the Internet” which let people use cellphones and PDAs to check the arrival time of Metro buses. The buses had already been equipped with sensors that count how many times the wheels turn and transmit location information to dispatcher and the MyBus…
ID Number:2000.107.20030128.CD05.001
Date:2003
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Bill Gates and Paul Allen at Sonics-Portland game, Seattle, March 11, 2003
Microsoft, a multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington, was founded by Bill Gates (1955-) and Paul Allen (1953-2018) in 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The company moved to Bellevue, Washington in 1979 and incorporated in 1981. Paul Allen left Microsoft in 1983 after being diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease. In 1986, he founded Vulcan, Inc. with his sister Jody…
ID Number:2000.107.20030311.CD01.02.001
Date:2003
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Bill Nye and Woody Sullivan with MarsDial mockup, Seattle, December 22, 2003
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:2000.107.20031222.CD01.002
Date:2003
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Bill Nye and Woody Sullivan with MarsDial mockup near UW Astronomy building, Seattle, December 22, 2003
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:2000.107.20031222.CD01.003
Date:2003
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Bill Nye and Woody Sullivan with EarthDial, Seattle, December 22, 2003
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:2000.107.20031222.CD01.004
Date:2003