1829 results for: Seattle Times
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Students complaining about problems at SOIC, April 21, 1980
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:2000.107.177.26.05
Date:1980
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Teacher and class on steps of closed SOIC building, August 1986
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:2000.107.177.26.06
Date:1986
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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
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Crowd gathered after bank robbery at Pike Place Market, Seattle, November 6, 1964
In November 1964 the Pike Place Market branch of the National Bank of Commerce was robbed of $870 by a man carrying a small pistol. Six days later Seattle Police officers investigating Charles Walter Endicott (b. 1938) for illegal possession of narcotics arrested him for the robbery as well. Endicott, who identified himself as an unemployed salesman, later plead guilty…
ID Number:2000.107.179.19.02
Date:1964
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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
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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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Gypsy Gyppo String Band playing at Pike Place Market, Seattle, May 27, 1973
Between 1971 and 2008 the Pike Place Merchants Association hosted an annual Memorial Day street festival at the Pike Place Market. Proceeds from the festival went to the Pike Place Market Foundation to help improve the market.In this image the Gypsy Gyppo String Band plays "old-time stuff" for a crowd at the 1973 Pike Place Market Street Fair. The band…
ID Number:2000.107.179.21.03
Date:1973
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Customers listening to fish monger at Pike Place Fish Market, Seattle, August 6, 1973
The Pike Place Fish Market is an open-air shop located in Seattle's Pike Place Market, famous for its team of mongers tossing customers' selections from the ice-packed displays at the front to the scales in the back. The shop was founded in 1930 and purchased in 1965 by John Yokoyama (b. 1940), an employee, who then sold the shop to…
ID Number:2000.107.179.21.04
Date:1973
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Alice Signey receiving award from Wes Uhlman at Pike Place Market, Seattle, August 17, 1973
The Pike Place Market's 66th-anniversary celebration was held in Seattle August 17-18, 1973. Bluegrass, jazz, and jug bands provided live music, and featured activities included children's arts and crafts booths, Soap Box Derby Races, and 66-cent sales at many shops and stalls within the market.In this image Alice Mary (Cooper) Signey (1923-1999) is presented with the grand prize for best…
ID Number:2000.107.179.21.05
Date:1973
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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