1312 results for: Seattle Center
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Seattle Reign players during game vs. San Jose Lasers, Seattle, January 19, 1997
The Seattle Reign were the first professional women’s basketball team in Seattle, playing from 1996 to 1998 in the American Basketball League (ABL). The ABL was founded in 1996, with Seattle as one of eight founding teams. The league collapsed partway through the 1998 season under the financial pressure of competing with the rival Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), which…
ID Number:2000.107.19970119.6.05
Date:1997
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Bronka Serebrin at boutique closing party, Seattle, January 29, 1997
Bronislawa "Bronka" Kohn Serebrin (1925-2008) was a fashion expert, the longtime owner of a clothing boutique, and a survivor of the Holocaust. Born in Lodz, Poland, Serebrin survived six years in various camps before being liberated from Mauthausen in May 1945 at age 18. Serebrin moved to the US after World War II and became involved in fashion retailing. In…
ID Number:2000.107.19970129.7.08
Date:1997
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People on bicycles at Critical Mass event, Seattle, February 7, 1997
“Critical Mass” bicycle demonstrations began in San Francisco in 1992 to protest the challenges of bike riders in car traffic. In Seattle, monthly protests began to take place during rush hour. This photo shows Critical Mass cyclists pausing to chat during an event in downtown Seattle. Cyclists had tangled with police near Westlake Center a week earlier, but this rally…
ID Number:2000.107.19970207.10.03
Date:1997
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Critical Mass demonstration, Seattle, February 7, 1997
“Critical Mass” bicycle demonstrations began in San Francisco in 1992 to protest the challenges of bike riders in car traffic. In Seattle, monthly protests began to take place during rush hour. This overhead view of a Critical Mass rally at Fourth Avenue and Pine Street was taken from the balcony of Westlake Center. Cyclists had tangled with police near Westlake…
ID Number:2000.107.19970207.11.15
Date:1997
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Players in an over-50 women's soccer game in the heavy rain at Woodland Park, Seattle, March 18, 1997
Women's soccer in Washington State grew and flourished from the 1970s through the 1990s, with the development of multiple high school and college programs, and women's leagues and clubs. The proliferation of women's soccer clubs gave women of all ages and abilities the opportunity to develop and compete.Here, two over-50 women's soccer teams plays a game at night in heavy…
ID Number:2000.107.19970318.2.14
Date:1997
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Elizabeth Gordon and Susan Varner at Jubilee Women's Center, Seattle, April 4, 1997
In 1997, the Washington State Legislature cut $35 million from the state’s General Assistance - Unemployable (GAU) program, which at the time provided cash assistance and medical coverage to about 17,000 Washingtonians who were unable to work. As of 2024, this program, now called the Aged, Blind or Disabled Cash Program (ABD), continues to offer cash assistance to low-income people…
ID Number:2000.107.19970404.24.24
Date:1997
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Rafael Carrabba in his Queen Anne shop, April 9, 1997
Rafael Carrabba Violins opened in 1985 on Queen Anne Hill in Seattle. Carrabba, whose parents were musicians, had his first apprenticeship at age 12 when he worked at David Saunders' violin shop in Seattle, learning enough by age 13 to make himself a violin. Over the next 20 years, he continued to work with master violin makers in Chicago, Philadelphia,…
ID Number:2000.107.19970409.19.11
Date:1997
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David Van Zandt with a cello at his Ballard shop, April 9, 1997
David Van Zandt is a professional violin maker who works with the traditional methods, materials, and forms of the master violin makers of the 17th and 18th centuries. After graduating from the Violin Making School in Salt Lake City in 1983, Van Zandt worked with historical instruments in a New York City violin shop, developing his skills in repair and…
ID Number:2000.107.19970409.20.06
Date:1997
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Skateboarder at the Seattle Center skateboard park, Seattle, April 11, 1997
Seattle Center’s skateboard park at Fifth Avenue and Republican Street opened on April 12th, 1997. The opening was scheduled to coincide with the start of Seattle’s spring school break. Here, a skateboarder tries out the new facility on the day before the official opening. Caption information source: “Head over wheels", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 12, 1997, page A3.
ID Number:2000.107.19970411.12.31
Date:1997
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Governor Gary Locke and health care program supporters, Olympia, April 22, 1997
The Washington state legislature established a pilot program in 1987 to provide health care insurance to low-income working families who didn’t qualify for Medicaid. In 1993, the Basic Health Program was expanded statewide and it grew a bit further in 1995. In 1997, the Republican legislature pushed to freeze the program at 1995 levels and to increase premiums and copayments.…
ID Number:2000.107.19970422.10.13
Date:1997