113 results for: Brownell, Tom
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Westlake Chevrolet Co. staff outside dealership, November 13, 1964
In this photo, staff at the Westlake Chevrolet Co. pose with Santa in his sleigh and cash in their hands to greet the start of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Christmas Fun for underprivileged school children with their donations, which totaled $360. At left is general manager E.F. McCarty and vice president Larry Norton, Jr. The used car center opened at 301…
ID Number:2000.107.165.06.01
Date:1964
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Magnolia State Bank, Seattle, August 7, 1953
The Magnolia State Bank, organized, staffed, and wholly owned and directed by residents of Seattle's Magnolia neighborhood, opened for business at 2231 32nd Avenue West on December 15, 1948. Some time in the late 1950s, the bank became the Magnolia branch of Peoples National Bank of Washington.This photograph of Magnolia State Bank was taken the day after a lone thief…
ID Number:2000.107.165.12.02
Date:1953
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Phyllis Lamphere and Bill Earl dancing at Bumbershoot, Seattle, August 16, 1974
Begun in 1971, Seattle's Bumbershoot is one of North America’s largest urban arts festivals, held annually over Labor Day weekend at the Seattle Center.In this image, Seattle councilwoman Phyllis Lamphere, right, dances with Bill Earl of the Renaissance dancers at the IBM Plaza. The Seattle Brass Ensemble, singers, and dancers traveled from downtown to the Seattle Center to officially open…
ID Number:2000.107.168.06.05
Date:1974
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Block party protesting development, Seattle, August 28, 1977
In this image, spectators and dancers enjoy music provided by the Maraire Marimba Ensemble at a block party on 13th Avenue East between E. Republican Street and E. Mercer Street in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. The house behind the band at 516 13th Avenue E. is one of the older housing units that developers wanted to tear down and replace…
ID Number:2000.107.168.11.01
Date:1977
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Volunteers cleaning vacant houses on Capitol Hill, Seattle, June 14, 1975
In this image, volunteers removed weeds, brush, and grass from nine houses on the 1200 block of 15th Avenue East on Capitol Hill which had been vacant for eight years. Plans by Parkridge Development to tear the houses down and build a 50-unit apartment building at the site had been delayed by a zoning dispute and the properties had become…
ID Number:2000.107.168.11.02
Date:1975
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G.O.Guy drugstore interior, Seattle, February 7, 1975
George Omar (G.O.) Guy brought his family to Seattle in 1888 and opened his first pharmacy at Occidental Avenue and James Street that same year. In June 1889, Guy was able to rescue some of his stock from Seattle’s Great Fire, and quickly set up business in a tent. Over the following ninety-nine years, the family expanded the business to…
ID Number:2000.107.172.02.01
Date:1975
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Chinese girls drill team honoring war casualties at memorial ceremony, Seattle, May 30, 1961
In this image, members of the Seattle Chinese Community Girls Drill Team perform the "gin-lai,” the traditional three bows of respect, as a wreath is placed at the base of a memorial bearing the names of Chinese war dead. The whole Chinese community joined in the Memorial Day ceremony at Chong Wa Playfield at Eighth Avenue South and South Weller…
ID Number:2000.107.176.19.03
Date:1961
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Man learning to weld at SOIC, August 1975
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:2000.107.177.26.02
Date:1975
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Spectators watching Pike Place Soap Box Derby, Seattle, March 26, 1972
The idea for Seattle's All-American Pike Place Soap Box Derby came from Bill King, an artist selected Mayor of Pike Place Market by leaders within the market vendor community. Federally funded and sponsored by the Seattle Arts Commission, the event started in 1970 as part of the annual Pike Place Market Street Fair and was intended to encourage the making…
ID Number:2000.107.179.21.02
Date:1972
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Toddlers in Pow Wow baby beauty contest, Seattle, August 9, 1954
The Rainier District Pow Wow began in the midst of the Great Depression as a day-long community picnic at Seward Park. Between 1934 and 1992, when it ended, pow wow events paralleled what was going on in the rest of the country, celebrating neighborhood commerce in the 1930s, patriotism during World War II, the Baby Boom of the late 1940s…
ID Number:2000.107.185.02.01
Date:1954