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High school students riding transit bus, Seattle, October 26, 1955
In this image a group of Queen Anne High School students wave while sitting in one of the Seattle Transit System's (later Metro Transit) new diesel-powered buses. The students were touring the Atlantic Street station and trying out the new roomier buses. The 100 new coaches from General Motors had a carrying capacity of 51 passengers. Caption information derived from…
ID Number:2000.107.190.09.02
Date:1955
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C. E. Talbert "held up" by Lake City Vigilantes, Seattle, July 3, 1956
In this image bus driver C. E. Talbert, who made the first Seattle Transit System run to Lake City, is hoisted up and jokingly "robbed" by the Lake City Vigilantes. The Vigilantes, founded in 1946 as the "Keystone Cops," was a group of civic and business leaders in Lake City who appeared at various community celebrations. Still around as of…
ID Number:2000.107.190.09.03
Date:1956
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George Moyer and R. A. Cole boarding Dime Shuttle, Seattle, February 16, 1954
In this image George E. Moyer, superintendent of Seattle Transit System (later Metro Transit), left, and inspector R. A. Cole board the first of the 10-cent downtown shuttle buses known as the "Dime Shuttle." The shuttle loop ran north on Second from Yesler Street to Pine Street, and east on Pine Street to Seventh Avenue, returning south on Second. The…
ID Number:2000.107.190.09.04
Date:1954
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Passengers boarding Blue Streak bus at Northgate, Seattle, September 9, 1970
In this image passengers board a Seattle Transit System (now Metro Transit) Blue Streak bus at the Northgate Station. The Blue Streaks were intended as fast or express service buses, added at peak travel times. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph.
ID Number:2000.107.190.10.01
Date:1970
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Elaine Youch and Elizabeth Holsten leaving Fun! Run Bus, Seattle, June 20, 1972
In this image passengers Elaine Youch, left, and Elizabeth Holsten leap from the summer run "Fun! Run Bus." The Seattle Transit System (now Metro Transit) operated this 10-cent ride between the waterfront and Seattle Center through the month of August 1972. Caption information also derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph.
ID Number:2000.107.190.10.02
Date:1972
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Laurie Zagar vacuuming her car at a car wash, Seattle, March 20, 1980
Spring is a time of renewal and rejuvenation, of clearing out clutter and starting fresh. Here, on the first day in Spring in 1980, Laurie Zagar takes care of some spring cleaning, vacuuming out her car after running it through a car wash on 15th Avenue Northwest. Caption information source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 22, 1980, p. A8
ID Number:2000.107.203.29.01
Date:1980
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Crowd watching swimmer jump into Lake Washington at "Ramps to Nowhere," Seattle, June 1, 1975
In the 1960s the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) began construction of the R.H. Thomson Expressway, a 15-mile freeway from the Duwamish River in Seattle to Bothell. Several freeway ramps were built on the western shore of Lake Washington, intended to connect Highway 520 to the R. H. Thomson Expressway. The plan would have cut through wide swaths through…
ID Number:2000.107.223.22.01
Date:1975
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Martin J. Weideman using a curb ramp, Seattle, February 1981
In an effort to cut government spending and regulations, President Ronald Reagan’s 1982 budget proposed the elimination of Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (now the U.S. Access Board). The board’s near decade of setting standards, plus federal funding, had helped American cities begin to build curb cuts, provide bus lifts, and make other improvements to help people with disabilities…
ID Number:2000.107.228.26.01
Date:1981
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Men boarding bus to homeless shelter, Seattle, November 11, 1985
In this image a few of an estimated 100 hungry and cold men experiencing homelessness board a bus under the Alaskan Way Viaduct at King Street in downtown Seattle to go to a shelter on Pier 36. Caption information written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph.
ID Number:2000.107.257.11.05
Date:1985
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Man sitting in temporary shelter, Seattle, April 16, 1987
In this image, Robert McCloud Menzemer sits looking out from his new "home" in a hedge near Interstate 5 in downtown Seattle. Earlier in the week the state Department of Transportation had evicted Mr. Menzemer and others from their makeshift shelters underneath freeway overpasses. Caption information written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph.
ID Number:2000.107.257.11.06
Date:1987