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Center Park housing residents protesting proposed Metro bus changes, Seattle, May 18, 1993
Center Park is a subsidized public housing complex in the north Rainier Valley, designed to provide accommodations for people with disabilities. From the early 1970s, people living at Center Park had access to a customized Metro bus, nicknamed “the love bus” by residents, designed to handle 16 wheelchairs. In May 1993, Metro announced it would be eliminating the Center Park…
ID Number:2000.107.19930518.4.02
Date:1993
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Customer with bags of fortune cookie wafers outside Tsue Chong Co., Seattle, July 18, 1993
Tsue Chong Company was founded in 1917 by Gar Hip Louie on South Jackson Street in Seattle’s Chinatown neighborhood. Gar Hip founded the company as a noodle factory to supply the numerous local Chinese restaurants. In 1924, Gar Hip’s son Fat Yuen Louie took over the business, moving it to 8th and King Street. In the 1950s, Fat Yuen’s wife,…
ID Number:2000.107.19930716.1.03
Date:1993
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Woman making fortune cookies at Tsue Chong Co., Seattle, July 16, 1993
Tsue Chong Company was founded in 1917 by Gar Hip Louie on South Jackson Street in Seattle’s Chinatown neighborhood. Gar Hip founded the company as a noodle factory to supply the numerous local Chinese restaurants. In 1924, Gar Hip’s son Fat Yuen Louie took over the business, moving it to 8th and King Street. In the 1950s, Fat Yuen’s wife,…
ID Number:2000.107.19930716.2.20
Date:1993
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Fortune cookies at Tsue Chong Co., Seattle, July 16, 1993
Tsue Chong Company was founded in 1917 by Gar Hip Louie on South Jackson Street in Seattle’s Chinatown neighborhood. Gar Hip founded the company as a noodle factory to supply the numerous local Chinese restaurants. In 1924, Gar Hip’s son Fat Yuen Louie took over the business, moving it to 8th and King Street. In the 1950s, Fat Yuen’s wife,…
ID Number:2000.107.19930716.3.35
Date:1993
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Su Docekal at New Freeway Hall, Seattle, August 1993
Su Docekal is a socialist and feminist activist who has been involved with Radical Women and the Freedom Socialist Party. In May and June 1993, Docekal and Adrienne Weller traveled to Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Germany, Poland, Russia, and Serbia and spoke to women about their experiences since the end of communist rule. Docekal and Weller reported that people of all…
ID Number:2000.107.19930825.1.10
Date:1993
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Jerry Dyer working at Microsoft's Redmond campus, June 25, 1996
MSNBC, a partnership between Microsoft and NBC News, was launched on July 15, 1996 as both a 24-hour cable TV news channel and interactive Internet site. While ultimate editorial control over content was held by NBC, Microsoft also developed reporting staff at its Redmond headquarters to generate and report its own stories. Reporters based at Microsoft focused on world economics,…
ID Number:2000.107.19960625.4.15
Date:1996
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Debbie Osburn of the Seattle Reign basketball team, December 30, 1996
The Seattle Reign were the first professional women’s basketball team in Seattle, playing from 1996 to 1998 in the American Basketball League (ABL). The ABL was founded in 1996, with Seattle as one of eight founding teams. The league collapsed partway through the 1998 season under the financial pressure of competing with the rival Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), which…
ID Number:2000.107.19961230.19.18
Date:1996
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Children in Martin Luther King Day march, Seattle, January 20, 1997
Approximately 1000 people participated in the 1997 march to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on January 20, 1997. That year, MLK Day fell the day after Bill Clinton's inauguration for his second term as US President, and the march began at Garfield High School with speakers condemning Clinton's recently announced welfare cuts. Rather than limiting aid to those most…
ID Number:2000.107.19970120.7.06
Date:1997
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Martin Luther King Day march, Seattle, January 20, 1997
Approximately 1000 people participated in the 1997 march to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on January 20, 1997. That year, MLK Day fell the day after Bill Clinton's inauguration for his second term as US President, and the march began at Garfield High School with speakers condemning Clinton's recently announced welfare cuts. Rather than limiting aid to those most…
ID Number:2000.107.19970120.8.04
Date:1997
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Bill Culliton charging electric car, Orcas Island, March 6, 1997
In 1991, Orcas Island was chosen as one of 13 sites in the US to participate in a Department of Energy study to see how electric vehicles (EVs) performed in real use. At the time, EVs were limited in speed and range, but neither was a concern with Orcas Island's small size and narrow roads. Several Orcas residents bought EVs…
ID Number:2000.107.19970306.22.19
Date:1997