In December 1982, the Great Western Malting Company, located since 1935 on land leased from the Port of Vancouver, starts generating heat and electricity with an on-site, gas-turbine cogeneration plan...
On December 14, 1982, Washington red wines burst onto the national scene when a Cabernet Sauvignon from Walla Walla's Leonetti Cellar is named the best in the nation. The award is the result of a blin...
In the early morning darkness on December 15, 1982, three buses loaded with VIPs cross the new Glenn L. Jackson Bridge over the Columbia River from Vancouver to Portland and return. Other than constru...
In January 1983, Harry A. Pryde (1930-2009), former president of the Home Builders Association of Greater Seattle, assumes leadership of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). It is a diffi...
In 1983, the Wallingford Center, a retail center with upstairs apartments, opens. Located in the business district of Seattle's Wallingford neighborhood at the corner of Wallingford Avenue N and N 45t...
On January 26, 1983, Group Health Cooperative's Board of Trustees creates the Center for Health Studies.The center formalizes Group Health's internal research activities, which track outcomes of speci...
On February 19, 1983, three armed men enter the Wah Mee Club, a gambling club in Seattle's Chinatown International District, to carry out a bold heist. They leave behind 13 dead, one eyewitness, and a...
On February 19, 1983, race-car driver Cheryl Linn Glass (1961-1997) marries Richard Allan Lindwall (b. 1957), the head mechanic on her racing team, in an elaborate $50,000 ceremony at St. Mark's Episc...
On March 23, 1983, the U. S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms designates the Yakima Valley as the first federally recognized wine grape growing region in Washington and the first north of Cali...
On April 2, 1983, leaders of the Tulalip Tribes celebrate the opening of a modern, $7.2 million fish hatchery on the Tulalip Reservation west of Marysville in Snohomish County. The hatchery, located w...
On April 14, 1983, F. W. Langguth Winery unveils its first vintage of Washington wines at the annual KCTS Festival of Wines in Seattle. Langguth, a German winemaking behemoth, is the first major forei...
On April 21, 1983, the Tacoma Dome opens its doors as one of the largest wood domed structures in the world. It is owned and operated by the City of Tacoma's Public Assembly Facilities Department and ...
On April 27, 1983, the Group Health Cooperative Board of Trustees approves the hiring of 10 midwives on a permanent basis. The Group Health Women's Caucus first proposed the use of natural childbirth...
On May 18, 1983, Group Health's 1,200 nurses vote to replace the Washington State Nurses Association with District 1199 Northwest as their bargaining agent. District 1199 Northwest is a unit of the Na...
On May 23, 1983, the first issues of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer to be printed on presses at The Seattle Times are delivered, inaugurating the Joint Operating Agreement (JOA) between the two newspa...
In June 1983, the Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Seattle bars Gus Hall, general secretary of the American Communist Party, from speaking at the East Madison YMCA, saying the principles o...
On Sunday, August 21, 1983, a Lockheed Model L-18 Learstar operated by Landry Aviation, Inc. takes off from Arlington Municipal Airport carrying two pilots and 24 parachutists who plan to perform a co...
On September 1, 1983, U.S. Senator Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson (1912-1983) dies in Everett of a heart attack. Jackson represented Washington in the House of Representatives and in the Senate for 42 years...
On Monday, September 5, 1983, legendary Pacific Northwest animation-art savant/pioneer Bruce Bickford (1947-2019) premieres a preliminary cut of his years-in-the-making Prometheus' Garden at the Bumbe...
In September 1983, Group Health Cooperative's View magazine sounds its first alarm on a new disease dubbed Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). View reports that, as of early August, six cases h...
On September 15, 1983, the first Costco discount warehouse opens on 4th Avenue S in Seattle. The warehouse offers food, appliances, clothes, office supplies, and other goods at prices below general re...
On September 16, 1983, it is officially established that the University of Washington's prestigious School of International Studies (as based in the campus's old Thomson Hall) is to be rededicated as ...
On September 26, 1983, five Puget Sound Women's Peace Camp protesters are arrested inside the Kent Boeing Aerospace Center's cruise missile facility. Susan James, Kristen Delaney (1961-1985), Tammy Jo...
On September 26, 1983, The Evergreen State College's Tacoma Program holds the first day of classes as an official part of The Evergreen State College. This first day follows the Council for Post-Secon...