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Pantages Usherettes lined up in uniform, 1925
The Pantages was primarily a vaudeville theater, and it ran 22 shows per week – three daily and four on Sundays. The theater was designed by Seattle architect B. Marcus Priteca and opened in 1915 at the corner of 3rd Avenue and University Street. It was the second Pantages Theatre in Seattle, replacing an earlier theater on 2nd Avenue and…
ID Number:2022.6.7
Date:1925
Poster
Shelly's Leg bar poster, Seattle, 1974
Shelly's Leg was the first publicly gay disco and bar in Seattle when it opened on November 13, 1973, in a converted hotel in Pioneer Square at the intersection of South Main Street and Alaskan Way. Co-owner Shelly Bauman (1947-2010) funded the wildly popular party spot with settlement money from an accident at the Bastille Day Parade in 1970 which…
ID Number:2022.13.1
Date:1974
Logbook
Orpheum Theatre logbook, 1927-1937
The Orpheum Theatre opened on August 28, 1927, showing vaudeville acts as well as motion pictures. The Orpheum transitioned to mostly showing films in the mid-1930s and was open until 1967, when the theater closed and the building was demolished. The Washington Plaza Hotel (now the Westin) was built on the Orpheum’s old site. These images show the cover and…
ID Number:2023.35.1
Date:Circa 1932
Ephemera
Burger Gun visor from Almost Live! sketch, Seattle, 1989
From 1984 to 1999, the KING 5 TV show Almost Live! used humor to capture the experience of living in this region. The show coincided with a time when the region was making headlines with its music scene, tech industry, and coffee culture. Incorporating comedy monologues, in-studio antics, and inventive taped sketches, Almost Live! produced a slew of enduring characters…
ID Number:2024.10.3
Date:1989
Ephemera
Good Buzz Malt Liquor label from Almost Live! TV show, Seattle, 1991
From 1984 to 1999, the KING 5 TV show Almost Live! used humor to capture the experience of living in this region. The show coincided with a time when the region was making headlines with its music scene, tech industry, and coffee culture. Incorporating comedy monologues, in-studio antics, and inventive taped sketches, Almost Live! produced a slew of enduring characters…
ID Number:2024.28.2
Date:1991
Ephemera
Bill Nye the Science Guy Show: "Rules", 1993
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:2024.39.48.01
Date:1993
Ephemera
Bill Nye the Science Guy postcard, circa 1995
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:2024.39.49.01
Date:Circa 1995
Ephemera
Seasons Greetings card from Bill Nye, circa 1995
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:2024.39.50.01
Date:Circa 1995
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Infernal Noise Brigade marching in the WTO protests, Seattle, November 30, 1999
The Third Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was held in Seattle from November 30 to December 3, 1999. Trade ministers and other officials from the WTO's 135 member nations met in an unsuccessful attempt to plan negotiations to further deregulate free trade. Tens of thousands of activists for many causes gathered to protest what they saw as…
ID Number:2024.54.05.09
Date:1999
Ephemera
Almost Live! ticket, circa 1990
From 1984 to 1999, the KING 5 TV show Almost Live! used humor to capture the experience of living in this region. The show coincided with a time when the region was making headlines with its music scene, tech industry, and coffee culture. Incorporating comedy monologues, in-studio antics, and inventive taped sketches, Almost Live! produced a slew of enduring characters…
ID Number:2025.Wilson.7
Date:Circa 1990