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Photograph
Service men and women seated at the counter of Seattle Service Women's Club, Seattle, 1946
During World War II, thousands of service men and women served in or passed through Seattle. A number of recreation and temporary stay facilities provided entertainment and services for military personnel visiting the city, such as the large USO facility in the remodeled Rialto Building, opened in 1943. The first facilities specifically for military women opened in 1945: a female…
ID Number:2014.84.2
Date:1946
Poster
Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival poster, October 24-30, 1997
Begun in 1996, Seattle's Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (now Seattle Queer Film Festival) has become the largest LGBTQ film festival in the Pacific Northwest. It is produced by Three Dollar Bill Cinema, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide films by, for, and about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. The 2018 festival attracted over 10,000 viewers to…
ID Number:2014.89.1
Date:1997
Poster
Colleen Moore's Doll House at Frederick & Nelson exhibit poster, Seattle, August 14-28, 1937
In 1928, silent film star Colleen Moore (1899-1988) assembled a legion of her industry colleagues to help craft a miniature home of fantastic proportions. Horace Jackson, an architect and set designer who worked for First National Studios, created the floor plan and layout of the doll house with the basic idea that "the architecture must have no sense of reality.…
ID Number:2015.70.1
Date:1937
Ephemera
Things That Go Bump in the Night mailer, 1988
Sponsored by the Seattle Chapter of the Tacky Tourist Clubs of America, "Things That go Bump in the Night" was a dance party and costume contest held at the Seattle Aquarium on October 29, 1988. The event benefited Seattle Men's Chorus, Alice B. Theatre, Pride Festival Committee, Seattle Municipal Elections Committee for Gays & Lesbians (SEAMEC), and Tacky Tourist Clubs…
ID Number:2016.10.16.1
Date:1988
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Tacky Tourist Summer Vacation brochure, 1986
The Seattle Chapter of the Tacky Tourist Clubs of America published this leaflet detailing upcoming events for the summer of 1986. The events described were aimed at the gay and lesbian community and included festivities surrounding the annual Pride Parade, Seafair, and the Queen City Cruise. The Seattle Chapter also hosted other popular events during the year, such as "The…
ID Number:2016.10.16.2
Date:1986
Ephemera
Mailer for Gay Nineties New Year's Eve party, 1989
This mailer announces a 1989 New Year's Eve party at Seattle's Union Station organized by the Seattle chapter of the Tacky Tourist Clubs of America, a fundraising organization for gay and lesbian causes. The party was called the Gay Nineties, a play on the nostalgic term for the 1890s. The Gay Nineties party raised money for the Chicken Soup Brigade,…
ID Number:2016.10.16.3.1
Date:1989
Ephemera
Queen City Cruise advertisement, 1983
Sponsored by the Seattle chapter of the Tacky Tourist Clubs of America, the Queen City Cruise on August 6, 1983, promised "An Unforgivable Naughtycal Adventure on the High Seas!" The "Unofficial Seafair" event was held annually on Elliott Bay for several years and raised money for the Seattle Counseling Service for Sexual Minorities (now known as Seattle Counseling Service or…
ID Number:2016.10.17.1
Date:1983
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The Prom You Never Went To souvenir photo, 1990
Sponsored by the Seattle chapter of the Tacky Tourist Clubs of America, "The Prom You Never Went To" was an annual event first held in 1983 that became an institution in the local gay and lesbian community. The annual party at "Lavender Valley High School, Home of the Fighting Poodles," gave gay people an opportunity to take the people they…
ID Number:2016.10.18.1
Date:1990
Photograph
Exterior of Cinema 150, Seattle, 1970
This image was taken of United Artists Cinema 150 shortly after its opening on October 3, 1969 in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood at Sixth Avenue and Blanchard Street. This movie theater was the first in the Northwest to be equipped with the Dimension 150 (or D-150) wide screen process, had a 70-foot curved screen, and featured 850 rocking chair loge seats.…
ID Number:2017.4.1
Date:1970
Program
Boeing Children's Christmas Party program, 1953
The workforce and economy of Seattle from WWII through the 1970s was largely dependent on the Boeing Company and the commercial-airplane market. In 1957 business was booming due to the rise of the jet airplane. At the time Boeing employed about 100,000 people, including half of King County's manufacturing workers, while the Seattle's total population was only 550,000. This program…
ID Number:2018.3.3.31
Date:1953