1312 results for: Seattle Center
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Women learning keypunch at SOIC, January 1979
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:2000.107.177.26.03
Date:1979
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Plumbing student at SOIC, January 15, 1979
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:2000.107.177.26.04
Date:1979
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Students complaining about problems at SOIC, April 21, 1980
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:2000.107.177.26.05
Date:1980
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Teacher and class on steps of closed SOIC building, August 1986
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:2000.107.177.26.06
Date:1986
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Empty parking lot after World's Fair, Seattle, December 28, 1962
After the closing of the Seattle World's Fair, or Century 21 Exposition, on October 21, 1962, nearby parking prices plummeted. At this lot, near what is now the Pacific Science Center, prices dropped from $2.00 for the day to 50 cents.The domed building to the left was the Ford exhibit. Queen Anne Hill and what is now Climate Pledge Arena…
ID Number:2000.107.178.04.01
Date:1962
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Bernie Whitebear and Pete Schnurman at Daybreak Star construction site, Seattle, June 9, 1976
In 1970, a group of activists led by Bernie Whitebear (1937-2000), Sin-Aikst, or Sinixt (now one of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation), began a protest which culminated in approval for the development of both a cultural center for Indigenous peoples and a municipal park on decommissioned surplus land at Seattle's Fort Lawton site. After several years spent raising…
ID Number:2000.107.178.13.01
Date:1976
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Cecilia and George White welcoming visitors at Daybreak Star Cultural Center, Seattle, March 8, 1985
On March 8, 1970, about 100 members and sympathizers of United Indian People's Council (later United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, or UIATF) occupied Fort Lawton, a 1,100-acre army post in Seattle's Magnolia neighborhood. They were inspired by the passage of a bill signed by President Richard Nixon, which granted non-federal entities the ability to obtain surplus federal lands for…
ID Number:2000.107.178.14.01
Date:1985
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Alex Williams carving mask at Daybreak Star Cultural Center, Seattle, April 13, 1978
Here, Nez-Perce carver Alex Williams shapes a piece of alder wood into a totem mask during a workshop at the Daybreak Star Cultural Center in Discovery Park. Indigenous artists taught painting, carving, and drawing at the Center to anyone who was interested, free of charge. Native Americans from throughout the Northwest were welcomed as participating artists at the center. The…
ID Number:2000.107.178.14.02
Date:1978
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Anne Focke reviewing Pike Place Market piggy bank designs, Seattle, August 28, 1986
During the summer of 1985 the Pike Place Market Foundation held a competition in which local artists submitted designs for a piggy-bank sculpture that would collect spare change from Pike Place Market visitors to help support the market's food bank, child-care center, clinic, and senior center.In this image, Anna Focke, a Pike Place Market Foundation board member and one of…
ID Number:2000.107.179.19.03
Date:1986
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Owner hugging staff at Jake O'Shaughnessy's, Seattle, 1993
Restaurateurs Mick McHugh and Tim Firnstahl opened Jake O'Shaughnessy's Restaurant with what they claimed was the world's largest assortment of single-malt Scotches. First located in Lower Queen Anne at the northeast corner of Mercer Street and First Avenue North, it was displaced by a Larry's Market in 1993 and relocated to Bellevue Mall until closing for good in 2001.In this…
ID Number:2000.107.185.21.05
Date:1993