1868 results for: Seattle Times
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Seattle Opportunities Industrialization Center (SOIC) open house, 1967
The Seattle Opportunities Industrialization Center, or SOIC (pronounced "So I see"), was established in 1966, largely through a grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity, the federal agency funding "war on poverty" programs. Modeled after the original OIC started by a Philadelphia minister two years earlier, the community-based program recruited, trained and placed unemployed people in the labor market. The…
ID Number:1986.5.10043.1
Date:1967
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Seattle Opportunities Industrialization Center (SOIC) open house, 1967
The Seattle Opportunities Industrialization Center, or SOIC (pronounced "So I see"), was established in 1966, largely through a grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity, the federal agency funding "war on poverty" programs. Modeled after the original OIC started by a Philadelphia minister two years earlier, the community-based program recruited, trained and placed unemployed people in the labor market. The…
ID Number:1986.5.10043.2
Date:1967
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Opening of Pacific Science Center, Seattle, October 22, 1962
Many of the buildings at the Seattle World's Fair were intended to be permanent. The day after the World's Fair closed, the U.S. Science Pavilion reopened as the Pacific Science Center. President John F. Kennedy had been scheduled to make the official transfer to the City of Seattle, but was detained in Washington by the Cuban missile crisis.Here, Senator Warren…
ID Number:1986.5.10058.1
Date:1962
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City workers installing parking meters, Seattle, November 1941
On November 7, 1941, the city of Seattle began installing hotly-debated metal parking meters, hoping the move would eliminate traffic congestion and make driving safer in the city's central business district. Over 1600 meters were installed between First and Fifth Avenues, and Yesler Way and Virgina Street. Drivers were charged 5 cents an hour to park between 7:00 am and…
ID Number:1986.5.10115.1
Date:1941
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Reporter Jack Jarvis measuring distance from parking meter to crosswalk, Seattle, October 1961
In this image Seattle Post-Intelligencer veteran reporter and editor Jack Jarvis (1913-1972) holds a measuring tape, demonstrating that a parking meter placed at Ninth Avenue and Pine Street in downtown Seattle had been illegally placed too close to the crosswalk. Caption information source: The Seattle Times, April 4, 1972, p. 44
ID Number:1986.5.10122.1
Date:1961
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L. R. Maynock collecting parking meter fees, Seattle, January 1942
On November 7, 1941, the city of Seattle began installing hotly-debated metal parking meters, hoping the move would eliminate traffic congestion and make driving safer in the city's central business district. Over 1600 meters were installed between First and Fifth Avenues, and Yesler Way and Virgina Street. Drivers were charged 5 cents an hour to park between 7:00 am and…
ID Number:1986.5.10123.1
Date:1942
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Boys participating in pie eating contest, Seattle, August 3, 1947
The Rainier District Pow Wow began in the midst of the Great Depression as a day-long community picnic at Seward Park. Between 1934 and 1992, when it ended, pow wow events paralleled what was going on in the rest of the country, celebrating neighborhood commerce in the 1930s, patriotism during World War II, the Baby Boom of the late 1940s…
ID Number:1986.5.11290.1
Date:1947
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Gordon Bradbury in pie eating contest, Seattle, August 3, 1947
The Rainier District Pow Wow began in the midst of the Great Depression as a day-long community picnic at Seward Park. Between 1934 and 1992, when it ended, pow wow events paralleled what was going on in the rest of the country, celebrating neighborhood commerce in the 1930s, patriotism during World War II, the Baby Boom of the late 1940s…
ID Number:1986.5.11290.2
Date:1947
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Winners of pie eating contest with judges, Seattle, August 3, 1947
The Rainier District Pow Wow began in the midst of the Great Depression as a day-long community picnic at Seward Park. Between 1934 and 1992, when it ended, pow wow events paralleled what was going on in the rest of the country, celebrating neighborhood commerce in the 1930s, patriotism during World War II, the Baby Boom of the late 1940s…
ID Number:1986.5.11290.3
Date:1947
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Girl covering ears near band, Seattle, August 10, 1958
The Rainier District Pow Wow began in the midst of the Great Depression as a day-long community picnic at Seward Park. Between 1934 and 1992, when it ended, pow wow events paralleled what was going on in the rest of the country, celebrating neighborhood commerce in the 1930s, patriotism during World War II, the Baby Boom of the late 1940s…
ID Number:1986.5.11304.2
Date:1958