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Image of Bill Nye and Woody Sullivan with MarsDial mockup, Seattle, December 22, 2003
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Bill Nye and Woody Sullivan with MarsDial mockup, Seattle, December 22, 2003

Bill Nye moved to Seattle in 1977 to work as an engineer at Boeing and later for Sundstrand Data Control. In the early 1980s he began to do stand-up comedy and eventually was hired as a writer and performer on the Seattle TV comedy show Almost Live! It was there that he built the Bill Nye the Science Guy character,…
ID Number:2000.107.20031222.CD01.002
Date:2003
Image of Bill Nye and Woody Sullivan with MarsDial mockup near UW Astronomy building, Seattle, December 22, 2003
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Bill Nye and Woody Sullivan with MarsDial mockup near UW Astronomy building, Seattle, December 22, 2003

Bill Nye moved to Seattle in 1977 to work as an engineer at Boeing and later for Sundstrand Data Control. In the early 1980s he began to do stand-up comedy and eventually was hired as a writer and performer on the Seattle TV comedy show Almost Live! It was there that he built the Bill Nye the Science Guy character,…
ID Number:2000.107.20031222.CD01.003
Date:2003
Image of Bill Nye and Woody Sullivan with EarthDial, Seattle, December 22, 2003
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Bill Nye and Woody Sullivan with EarthDial, Seattle, December 22, 2003

Bill Nye moved to Seattle in 1977 to work as an engineer at Boeing and later for Sundstrand Data Control. In the early 1980s he began to do stand-up comedy and eventually was hired as a writer and performer on the Seattle TV comedy show Almost Live! It was there that he built the Bill Nye the Science Guy character,…
ID Number:2000.107.20031222.CD01.004
Date:2003
Image of Bill Nye and Woody Sullivan with EarthDial, Seattle, December 22, 2003
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Bill Nye and Woody Sullivan with EarthDial, Seattle, December 22, 2003

Bill Nye moved to Seattle in 1977 to work as an engineer at Boeing and later for Sundstrand Data Control. In the early 1980s he began to do stand-up comedy and eventually was hired as a writer and performer on the Seattle TV comedy show Almost Live! It was there that he built the Bill Nye the Science Guy character,…
ID Number:2000.107.20031222.CD01.005
Date:2003
Image of Smoke-In poster, Volunteer Park, Seattle, June 10, 1979
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Smoke-In poster, Volunteer Park, Seattle, June 10, 1979

From the late 1960s into the 1980s, marijuana "smoke-ins" were held by legalization advocates, antiwar protesters, and others in big cities nationwide. The Youth International Party (Yippies) organized an early smoke-in attended by 25,000 in Washington, D.C. on July 4, 1970, a anti-war counter to the nearby "Honor America Day" festivities with Billy Graham and Bob Hope. The annual July…
ID Number:2002.23.8.15.1
Date:1979
Image of J.P. Patches Patches Pal card, Seattle, circa 1965
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J.P. Patches Patches Pal card, Seattle, circa 1965

From 1958 to 1981, Seattle entertainer Chris John Wedes (1928-2012) played clown J.P. Patches on KIRO-TV. "The J.P. Patches Show" was only the second show broadcast by KIRO-TV. Despite having only two live actors on screen at most times, Wedes as J.P. Patches and Bob Newman (1932- ) as his "girlfriend" Gertrude, the live improv show was very popular in…
ID Number:2003.35.1.4.1
Date:Circa 1965
Image of J.P. Patches holiday card, Seattle, circa 1965
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J.P. Patches holiday card, Seattle, circa 1965

From 1958 to 1981, Seattle entertainer Chris John Wedes (1928-2012) played clown J.P. Patches on KIRO-TV. "The J.P. Patches Show" was only the second show broadcast by KIRO-TV. Despite having only two live actors on screen at most times, Wedes as J.P. Patches and Bob Newman (1932- ) as his "girlfriend" Gertrude, the live improv show was very popular in…
ID Number:2003.35.1.4.3
Date:Circa 1965
Image of J. P. Patches and Gertrude riding elephants in a parade, Seattle, circa 1975
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J. P. Patches and Gertrude riding elephants in a parade, Seattle, circa 1975

In this image popular children's television host J. P. Patches and his girlfriend Gertrude ride elephants in a parade.J. P. Patches (Julius Pierpont Patches) was a clown portrayed by Seattle entertainer Chris John Wedes (1928-2012) in "The J.P. Patches Show" on KIRO-TV from 1958 to 1981. Only the second program ever broadcast by KIRO-TV, the live improv show was immensely…
ID Number:2003.35.12.2
Date:Circa 1975
Image of Electric cars in the Golden Potlatch parade, Seattle, July 1911
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Electric cars in the Golden Potlatch parade, Seattle, July 1911

The Tilikums of Elttaes were a fraternal, civic organization composed primarily of influential white Seattle area businessmen, who used Native American imagery to promote tourism and the economic development of the city. In July 1911 the Tilikums ("Friends" in Chinook Jargon; Elttaes is Seattle spelled backward) organized the first Golden Potlatch celebration. The Golden Potlatch was a city-wide festival held…
ID Number:2011.79.1.150
Date:1911
Image of Mini-Mag, the Magazine of Disgust!, 1981
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Mini-Mag, the Magazine of Disgust!, 1981

This issue of the zine "Mini-Mag" consists of an interview with "Ricky Cresciend'o," the byline for music journalist Daniel O'Brien, who wrote a column called "Lip Service" for The Rocket newspaper. The interview, by "Ike Horn," probably a pseudonym for fellow Rocket writer Dennis Eichhorn, takes place at a fund raiser for "Ricky" at the Buffalo Tavern in Ballard, supported…
ID Number:2013.87.147.1
Date:1981
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