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Food merchants receiving goods, Seattle, July 28, 1950
In this image trucks are backed up to the sidewalk on Western Avenue on a typical weekday morning to load and unload fresh produce, canned goods, and meats on Seattle's "produce row." Signs in image: M. L. Davies Co.; Washington Co-Op Farmer's Association; Sacco Bros. Garden Fresh Fruits Vegetables; Coca-Cola; Harry's Cafe Tavern; P. K. Fruit Co.Caption information derived from…
ID Number:2000.107.176.37.02
Date:1950
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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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New trucks parked at the Metropolitan Laundry Company, Seattle, January 8, 1938
In 1938, the Metropolitan Laundry Company took delivery of ten new International D-2 panel trucks, shown here in front of the laundry. The company was located at 244 Pontius Avenue N., in Seattle's Cascade neighborhood. Numerous ads in The Seattle Times urged housewives to save time by sending their family clothing out to be washed or dry cleaned by Metropolitan.As…
ID Number:2000.107.177.01.02
Date:1938
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Parking enforcement officer sitting in vehicle, Seattle, Seattle, January 22, 1958
Here, in 1958, an employee of the Seattle Police Department Parking Enforcement division inspects an illegally parked Pontiac sedan in downtown Seattle. A comment on the back of the photo points out that the Parking Checker's vehicle lacks a license plate. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph.
ID Number:2000.107.178.06.02
Date:1958
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New parking meters on Third Avenue, Seattle, February 5, 1942
Starting in 1935, controversy raged in Seattle over whether people should have to pay to park on downtown streets. New parking meters finally went into operation at 9 AM on February 5th, 1942. The fee was five cents per hour. Nine citations were issued on the first day.This image shows the new parking meters installed on February 3, 1942 on…
ID Number:2000.107.178.06.03
Date:1942
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Typesetting machine hanging from crane, Seattle, December 5, 1948
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer was founded in 1863 as the weekly Seattle Gazette, and was long one of the city's two daily newspapers, along with The Seattle Times, until it became an online-only publication on March 18, 2009. In the mid-1940s, the newspaper held a nationwide design competition for a new building at Sixth Avenue and Wall Street in downtown Seattle.…
ID Number:2000.107.180.37.01
Date:1948
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Exterior of The Blob, Seattle, October 22, 1986
"The Blob" was the nickname Seattelites gave to the white stucco building created by architect-owner Anthony A. Dadvar to house a restaurant, the Isla del Sol. Initially a square building built in 1946 to house Clyde’s Cleaners, Mr. Dadvar began reworking the exterior in 1984, calling it "a free-form architecture and functional sculpture.'' He planned to create an interior atmosphere…
ID Number:2000.107.185.17.01
Date:1986
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Pike Street at 7th Avenue, Seattle, December 18, 1978
In this image pedestrians walk southwest down Pike Street between Sixth Avenue and Seventh Avenue in downtown Seattle. In 1978 most of the venues on this block were torn down for construction of the new Sheraton Hotel and Towers. Signs in image: Gay Nineties Restaurant; Chi-Chi; Smitty's; Take "5" Broiler; Canton Garden; Caption information also derived from captions written by…
ID Number:2000.107.185.20.05
Date:1978
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Customers ordering at Ivar's Fish Bar, Seattle, March 4, 1982
Beloved showman Ivar Haglund (1905-1985) established Seattle's first aquarium at Pier 54 and started a fish-and-chips stand in 1938 that grew into a restaurant empire. In 1946 Ivar opened the renowned "Acres of Clams" restaurant, one of 31 fish bars still operating in the region.In this image customers wait in line to order at the fish bar outside the Acres…
ID Number:2000.107.185.21.02
Date:1982
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Exterior of Jolly Roger restaurant, Seattle, March 11, 1979
A speak-easy during Prohibition called the China Castle, Seattle's last-surviving roadhouse was built in 1929 with a lookout tower and a secret tunnel. After the repeal of Prohibition it was renamed the Jolly Roger, a dining and dancing club with a skull-and-crossbones flag and neon anchor sign as beacons. Declining after WWII, the building later housed a coffee shop, an…
ID Number:2000.107.185.22.02
Date:1979