638 results for: Sports
Ephemera
Super Sonics inaugural game reception invitation, October 20, 1967
Seattle's professional men's basketball team, the SuperSonics, played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1967 until 2008, when the team relocated to Oklahoma City as the Oklahoma City Thunder. The Sonics first official NBA home game was played against the San Diego Rockets at the Seattle Center Coliseum (now KeyArena) on October 20, 1967. The invitation picture here is…
ID Number:2018.3.3.77
Date:1967
Ephemera
Rainier National Park winter sports brochure, 1935-1936
After the opening of Mount Rainier National Park in 1899, increasing numbers of people visited the mountain to fish, hike, camp, and view the mountain scenery. In 1915, the National Park Service built a single lane road from Longmire Springs to Paradise Valley, and the Paradise Inn was built the following year, quickly becoming a popular destination for automobile trips.…
ID Number:2018.3.3.100
Date:1935
Ephemera
Anderson & Thompson Ski Company catalog, 1956
In the 1930s, Norwegian Jorgen Aaland experimented with making a laminated wooden ski. He lived in Seattle at the time and took his idea to Ray Anderson, a ski instructor and president of the city's General Furniture Company. Anderson developed the idea further and received a patent from the US Patent Office in May 1933. Anderson and mountaineer Ben Thompson…
ID Number:2018.3.3.110
Date:1956
Program
Ice Parade program, November 10-12, 1961
The Seattle Skating Club (SSC) was formed in 1931, and for at least 10 years held an ice skating exhibition event called Iceparade. Proceeds from the event went to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Annual Christmas Fund which provided hot lunches, clothing, and medical and dental care throughout the year for under-privileged children attending public or parochial schools in Seattle and King…
ID Number:2018.3.3.116
Date:1961
Program
Pacific Coast Figure Skating Championship program, February 1953
In February 1953, the Seattle Skating Club sponsored the Pacific Coast Figure Skating Championships at the city's Civic Ice Arena (later Mercer Arena). The program contains images of the skaters, lists of the officials and competitors, a complete schedule of events, facts about figure skating, and a description of scoring and judging.
ID Number:2018.3.3.117
Date:1953
Ephemera
Stan Sayres, Inc., matchbook, circa 1950
Seattle automobile dealer and athlete Stanley S. Sayres (1896-1956) was the owner and driver of the Seattle-designed and Seattle-built hydroplane, Slo-mo-shun IV. Mr. Sayres was piloting the boat June 26, 1950, on Lake Washington when he broke the world speed record on water, beating the previous record by nearly 20 mph.The matchbook pictured here advertises Stan Sayres, Inc., (also called…
ID Number:2018.3.3.136
Date:Circa 1950
Poster
Goodwill Games poster, Seattle, 1990
In the summer of 1980, the United States led a boycott of the Moscow Olympics to protest the USSR invasion of Afghanistan. In return, the Soviet Union and eastern bloc nations boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. In response, cable broadcasting magnate Ted Turner established the Goodwill Games to bring athletes together outside the Olympic structure. The first…
ID Number:2019.3.24.1
Date:1990
Poster
Goodwill Games poster, Seattle, 1990
In the summer of 1980, the United States led a boycott of the Moscow Olympics to protest the USSR invasion of Afghanistan. In return, the Soviet Union and eastern bloc nations boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. In response, cable broadcasting magnate Ted Turner established the Goodwill Games to bring athletes together outside the Olympic structure. The first…
ID Number:2019.3.24.2
Date:1990
Poster
Olympic Riding Academy Spring Horse Show poster, Seattle, 1944
Seattle's Olympic Riding Academy held its Spring Horse Show in late May 1944. It featured both English and Western style riders in various jumping and harness racing events. The show was held at the Olympic Riding and Driving Club, founded in 1935 across the street from the Jackson Park Municipal Golf Course, which had opened in 1930.This poster from the…
ID Number:2019.3.32
Date:1944
Videorecording
Oral history interview with Al Young, March 12, 2008
Interview with Al Young, a former world champion drag racer and local high school teacher. He donated his famous 1970 Dodge Challenger to MOHAI in 2007. He was inducted into the National Hot Rod Association Hall of Fame (NW Division) in 2018. This interview was conducted by Shelly Leavens for the Speaking of Seattle Oral History Project on March 12,…
ID Number:2019.35.1.71
Date:2008