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Kayla Skinner and Harry Wong at Trader Vic's restaurant, June 20, 1991
Trader Vic's was a Polynesian-themed chain restaurant founded in 1934 by Victor Jules Bergeron, Jr. (1902-1984) in California. The first franchised Trader Vic's opened in Seattle in 1949, and the chain expanded quickly during the Tiki culture fad of the 1950s and 1960s. The Seattle restaurant moved to the Washington Plaza Hotel (now the Westin) in 1969, and closed in…
ID Number:2000.107.232.27.02
Date:1991
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Bill Clinton campaigning in Seattle, October 22, 1992
This image shows part of the crowd of around 15,000 spectators that gathered at Victor Steinbrueck Park, on Virginia Street at the north end of Pike Place Market in downtown Seattle, to hear Bill Clinton give a presidential campaign speech. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph.
ID Number:2000.107.245.01.05
Date:1992
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Man sitting in temporary shelter, Seattle, May 1, 1991
In this image Tony, a resident of "The Ranch," a tent city temporarily located on Beacon Hill in Seattle, sits in the doorway of his makeshift home. The Ranch was made up of seven huts constructed of scavenged wood and plastic built in a wooded area near South Dearborn Street and 12th Avenue South. Caption information written by Post-Intelligencer staff…
ID Number:2000.107.257.11.07
Date:1991
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UW women basketball players posing on bleachers, Seattle, March 14, 1991
In this image, forward Karen Deden, left, and guard Laurie Merlino, senior starters on the University of Washington women's basketball team, pose together in the bleachers at Hec Edmundson Pavilion on the UW Seattle campus. The women were preparing for their final game of the season, after having lost to Stanford in the regional semifinals (or Sweet 16) of the…
ID Number:2000.107.264.03.02
Date:1991
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Lt. Tracy Franks spraying Chief Molly Douce with fire extinquisher during Pride Parade, Seattle, June 30, 2002
Seattle celebrated its first Gay Pride Week in June 1974, with a variety of festive activities at private and public venues around the city. The largest event, a day of celebrations at Occidental Park, drew a crowd of about 200. Three years later, Mayor Wes Uhlman officially endorsed the city’s pride celebration, declaring June 25 to July 1, 1977 to…
ID Number:2000.107.2002.CD01.02.03.001
Date:2002
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Woman wearing Virtual Vision Sport headset, December 18, 1992
In 1992, the Redmond-based company Virtual Vision, founded by local tech pioneer Gordon Kuenster, developed the Virtual Vision Sport eyeglasses. Borrowing from virtual reality technology, the lightweight device displayed what appeared to be a big-screen television picture to the wearer, by using a tiny LCD screen and mirror attached inside one of the eyepieces, with earbuds for sound at each…
ID Number:2000.107.19921218.1.09
Date:1992
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Lillian Gideon at home, Seattle, January 12, 1993
Lillian Morris Gideon (1907-2006) was widely known in Seattle as a volunteer and philanthropist in Seattle's African-American community and other groups. Born in Mobile, AL and educated at Boston College, Gideon served in the American Red Cross during both World Wars, and moved to Seattle in the 1950s with her husband Russell, working as a social worker at the VA…
ID Number:2000.107.19930112.1.35
Date:1993
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An Tran surrounded by family and friends at Sea-Tac Airport, February 23, 1993
In 1954, An Tran sent six of her children from their home in North Vietnam to South Vietnam to escape the impending rule of the North Vietnamese communist government. An and her husband, Tau Nguyen, followed their children but were captured at the border and sent to separate jails. Tau escaped to South Vietnam, but An was returned to the…
ID Number:2000.107.19930223.12.36
Date:1993
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An Tran holding baby during reunion at SeaTac airport, February 23, 1993
In 1954, An Tran sent six of her children from their home in North Vietnam to South Vietnam to escape the impending rule of the North Vietnamese communist government. An and her husband, Tau Nguyen, followed their children but were captured at the border and sent to separate jails. Tau escaped to South Vietnam, but An was returned to the…
ID Number:2000.107.19930223.13.18
Date:1993
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Mother and son at Chamberlain House, March 25, 1993
Pioneer Human Services in Seattle was founded by Jack Dalton in 1963 as a single transitional house for formerly incarcerated individuals. In the 1970s, Pioneer was selected to manage the state's first community-based work release program in Seattle, and it later expanded to provide housing and services to people recovering from substance abuse and addiction. As of 2021, Pioneer Human…
ID Number:2000.107.19930325.3.21
Date:1993