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Image of Tina Head staffing stall at Mount Baker farmers market, Seattle, August 3, 1980
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Tina Head staffing stall at Mount Baker farmers market, Seattle, August 3, 1980

In this image Tina Head watches over a produce stand at a farmer's market in Seattle's Mount Baker neighborhood. Beginning in 1993, the Neighborhood Farmers Market Alliance sought to bring various farmer's markets in Seattle together and as of 2018 operates eight markets around the city, including the U-District Neighborhood Farmers Market. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer…
ID Number:2000.107.176.37.10
Date:1980
Image of Children playing at Fremont Sunday market, Seattle, November 5, 1990
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Children playing at Fremont Sunday market, Seattle, November 5, 1990

In this image Corey Gallagher, 5, left, Sam Sparks, 3, and Jama Gerhart, 4, play in a canoe for sale while their parents shop at the Fremont Sunday Market in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood. Beginning in 1993 the Neighborhood Farmers Market Alliance sought to bring various farmer's markets in Seattle together and as of 2018 operates eight markets around the city,…
ID Number:2000.107.176.37.11
Date:1990
Image of New parking meters on Third Avenue, Seattle, February 5, 1942
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New parking meters on Third Avenue, Seattle, February 5, 1942

Starting in 1935, controversy raged in Seattle over whether people should have to pay to park on downtown streets. New parking meters finally went into operation at 9 AM on February 5th, 1942. The fee was five cents per hour. Nine citations were issued on the first day.This image shows the new parking meters installed on February 3, 1942 on…
ID Number:2000.107.178.06.03
Date:1942
Image of City employees collecting money from parking meters, Seattle, February 7, 1942
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City employees collecting money from parking meters, Seattle, February 7, 1942

Stating in 1935, controversy raged in Seattle over whether people should have to pay to park on downtown streets. The first parking meters went into operation on February 5, 1942. The fee was five cents per hour.Here, Seattle Police Department Parking Enforcement division employees Ed Lorentzen and Einar Larson make the first collection from the 77 new meters. They replaced…
ID Number:2000.107.178.06.04
Date:1942
Image of Mariana Matthews writing a parking ticket, Seattle, May 7, 1991
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Mariana Matthews writing a parking ticket, Seattle, May 7, 1991

In the spring of 1991, the city of Seattle's Parking Enforcement Unit ran a 2-week experiment to see whether foot patrols might be more efficent than the usual three-wheeled gas-powered carts. Officer Mariana Matthews, shown here on foot patrol writing an overtime parking citation near Pike Place Market, reports that while she is no fan of the scooters, she does…
ID Number:2000.107.178.07.01
Date:1991
Image of Cecilia and George White welcoming visitors at Daybreak Star Cultural Center, Seattle, March 8, 1985
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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
Image of Anne Focke reviewing Pike Place Market piggy bank designs, Seattle, August 28, 1986
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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
Image of Typesetting machine hanging from crane, Seattle, December 5, 1948
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Typesetting machine hanging from crane, Seattle, December 5, 1948

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer was founded in 1863 as the weekly Seattle Gazette, and was long one of the city's two daily newspapers, along with The Seattle Times, until it became an online-only publication on March 18, 2009. In the mid-1940s, the newspaper held a nationwide design competition for a new building at Sixth Avenue and Wall Street in downtown Seattle.…
ID Number:2000.107.180.37.01
Date:1948
Image of Exterior of Clark's Top-Notch Restaurant, Seattle, June 29, 1939
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Exterior of Clark's Top-Notch Restaurant, Seattle, June 29, 1939

Michigan-born Walter Clark (1897-1990) first came to Seattle after WWI to open a restaurant for an employer. By 1930 he was able to buy a restaurant for himself, Marie's Barbecue, in the University District. Together with his wife, Eugenia Power Clark (1918-1998), Mr. Clark presided over an empire that included 22 restaurants in Seattle, Portland, Tacoma, and Yakima, and received…
ID Number:2000.107.185.19.01
Date:1939
Image of Customers talking at Drift on Inn, Shoreline, May 18, 1979
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Customers talking at Drift on Inn, Shoreline, May 18, 1979

The Drift on Inn was a roadhouse established in 1930 on Aurora Avenue North in what was then unincorporated King County, now the City of Shoreline. The nightclub reportedly once played host to Frank Sinatra, Harry Truman, and Bob Hope, and the adjoining Club Hollywood Casino was open 24 hours a day.In this image two regulars chat over a drink…
ID Number:2000.107.185.20.02
Date:1979
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