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King Olav V unveiling plaque at Bergen Place, Seattle, October 19, 1975
Bergen Place in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood is a park honoring Bergen, Norway, one of Seattle's International Sister Cities. The park is located on the triangular site between Leary Avenue, 22nd Avenue NW, and Market Street. In this image Eilert Eilertsen (1918-2014), left, Lord Mayor of Bergen, an unidentified man, and Wesley C. Uhlman (1935-), Mayor of Seattle, look on as…
ID Number:2000.107.165.09.01
Date:1975
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Seattle Banjo Band, June 21, 1976
As part of King County's 1976 Bicentennial celebrations, the Seattle Banjo Band gave six free summer performances at King County parks. These were sponsored by the King County Parks Division and the King County Arts Commission. Here, the Seattle Banjo Band poses for its publicity shot on a Seattle beach. The band's 1976 performances included sing-a-longs, Charleston dancers, and a…
ID Number:2000.107.165.10.01
Date:1976
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Seattle Banjo Band members performing, 1978
The Seattle Banjo Band was a popular participant in Seattle-area summer festivals. Here, Trudy Hawley, foreground, and other members of the band sing and play at one of the band's 1978 performances at a King County park. Caption information source: The Seattle Times, June 28 and July 12, 1978Caption information also derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached…
ID Number:2000.107.165.10.02
Date:1978
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Renovation of the Ballard Mansion, Seattle, September 11, 1986
Martin Ballard arrived in Seattle in 1882. By 1885, he had founded the Seattle Hardware Company and helped found the National Bank of Commerce. In 1900, following the lead of other prominent Seattleites, Ballard built a large home on the south side of Queen Anne Hill, overlooking the city and bay. After Ballard's death in 1907, the home went through…
ID Number:2000.107.165.10.03
Date:1986
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Bank customer in car using "snorkel" depository, Seattle, March 30, 1956
As the oldest customer of the Seattle office of the Bank of California, Judge Kenneth Mackintosh made the first deposit in the bank's new "snorkel" sidewalk installation. The "snorkel" curb teller was designed for customers to pull up to the window in their car. A teller was stationed at an underground office, able to see the customer (and vice versa)…
ID Number:2000.107.165.11.01
Date:1956
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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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Woman using Peoples Bank home banking program, September 20, 1984
In 1984 sixty customers of Peoples Bank began a one-year trial of the bank's experimental new home-banking system. For a $7.50 monthly fee and a charge for each transaction, the customers could pay bills, transfer funds, check account balances, and even play a few video games on a home banking system available 24 hours a day, using their home computers.…
ID Number:2000.107.165.14.02
Date:1984
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Peoples Bank and Trust Company building, Seattle, March 24, 1934
This image shows the opening of the new building of the Peoples Bank and Trust Company, which took over the building from the defunct Puget Sound Savings and Loan Association. Built in the early 1920s at 300 Pike Street in downtown Seattle, the building was later demolished and the site has been occupied since 1985 by the Century Square Office…
ID Number:2000.107.165.15.01
Date:1934
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Prudential Mutual Savings Bank after robbery, Seattle, November 24, 1954
In this image taken outside of the Prudential Mutual Savings Bank at Third Avenue and Spring Street in downtown Seattle, spectators gather after a robber escaped from the bank with $2,500. Signs in image: Fern Hotel; Texan Hotel; Tavern; Toy's Cafe, Good Food; Ewing and Clark Real Estate ServiceCaption information source: The Seattle Daily Times, November 24, 1954, page 2
ID Number:2000.107.165.15.02
Date:1954
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SeaFirst motor branch, Seattle, August 29, 1953
In 1953, Seattle First National Bank opened their first Motor Branch, a facility providing drive-in access as well as two walk-up teller windows. The branch, seen here, was built in downtown Seattle at Third Avenue and Columbia Street. Signs in image: Dexter Horton Building, Seattle-First National Bank Main Office; Hoge Building, The Canadian Bank of CommerceCaption information source: The Seattle…
ID Number:2000.107.165.17.02
Date:1953