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George Benson was a popular Capitol Hill druggist, brass band musician, and five-term member of the Seattle City Council from 1974 to 1994. A native of Minnesota, Benson moved to Seattle in 1938 and u...
Duane Berentson served for 18 years (1962-1980) as a Washington state legislator representing Burlington, Skagit County, and specializing in transportation issues. In 1981, he became the first non-eng...
William Arthur Bulley served as Director of Highways for the Washington Department of Highways from 1975 to 1977. In September 1977 when the Legislature created the Washington State Department of Tra...
The new Central Library of The Seattle Public Library opened in May 2004 in a startlingly unique and widely praised steel-and-glass building designed by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas. It boasts the mos...
Since the 1933 debut of Tugboat Annie, Seattle has been featured in more than 100 motion pictures and television features. Generations of Hollywood producers have used Seattle-area scenery and archite...
Gary David Gayton, a prominent Seattle lawyer and businessman, was the fourth child of John J. (Jacob) Gayton (1899-1969) and Virginia Clark Gayton (1902-1993), and the grandson of Seattle pioneers Jo...
James A. "Al" Hendrix was the father of rock legend Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970). He grew up in Vancouver B.C. and moved to Seattle in 1940. He married Jimi's mother, Lucille Jeter (ca. 1925-1958) in 1942...
Former Seattle resident Bruce Lee, martial artist and actor in film and television, starred in many Hong Kong movie productions as a child before he came to worldwide fame with his role as Kato in tel...
Bruce Lee popularized Kung Fu and other Asian martial arts disciplines during a brief but influential career as an instructor and as an actor on television and in feature films. Born in San Francisco ...
Elizabeth (Logan) "Betty Jane" Narver was the Chair of the Seattle Public Library Board of Trustees and former director of the University of Washington's Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, amon...
The North East Branch, The Seattle Public Library, located at 6801 35th Avenue NE, had its origins in the Ravenna/View Ridge deposit station, begun in December 1945. The deposit station circulated so ...
Kent Pullen served on the King County Council for 13 years representing the 9th Council District -- the southeast corner of King County. Pullen held public office in Washington state for more than 30 ...
President Dwight Eisenhower created the Sister City program in 1956 to encourage the people-to-people exchange between Americans and citizens of other countries. Seattle was quick off the mark with th...
Slam poetry is a form of competitive performance poetry in which participants offer works no longer than three minutes and are judged by randomly picked audience members. The winners then progress to ...
On December 28, 1896, the Good Highways Convention meets at the Seattle Chamber of Commerce to promote better roads in the state. Attended by regional officials and parties interested in seeing the st...
On September 23, 1904, the Automobile Club of Seattle, predecessor of AAA Washington, is founded with 46 members plus officers. A social club for people with autos and automobile-related interests, th...
On April 15, 1905, Joseph M. Snow (1850-1929) begins his job as Washington state's first Highway Commissioner. In March 1905 Washington Legislature created the Highway Commissioner post and a Highway ...
On December 4, 1913, the Lewiston-Clarkston Bridge across the Snake River opens as a free bridge. The steel bridge connects Clarkston, Washington (in Asotin County) and Lewiston, Idaho. It had been a ...
In March 1916, James Allen (1871-1934) becomes the sixth Highway Commissioner for Washington state. Allen is credited with planning the state's primary highway system, and for many road safety innovat...
On November 11, 1919, a gunbattle erupts during an Armistice Day parade of American Legionnaires in Centralia, leaving four dead and resulting in the lynching of one member of the Industrial Workers o...
On October 1, 1921, engineer Homer Hadley (1885-1967) formally proposes a floating concrete pontoon bridge across Lake Washington at a meeting of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Hadley concei...
In September 1924, the north and south Hamma Hamma bridges are built on the Olympic Loop Highway (now Highway 101) over branches of the Hamma Hamma River, which drain into the Hood Canal near Eldon, W...
On March 1, 1937, Washington Governor Clarence Martin (1887-1955) signs the Acquisition of Camp Sites and Parks by Counties Act, thereby allowing individual Washington counties the right to purchase o...
On July 1, 1949, William Adair Bugge (1900-1992) begins work in his newly appointed position of Director of Highways for Washington state. A native of the Northwest, Bugge had been working in San Fran...
On March 20, 1956, Lewis H. Nasmyth receives U.S. Patent No. 177,189 for a "new, original, and ornamental design for an article of manufacture." The article in question is the Hat 'n' Boots Premium Te...
On April 24, 1967, CHECC ("Choose an Effective City Council") holds a news conference to announce its existence and purpose -- to reform the Seattle City government. A bipartisan group that operates b...
On February 13, 1968, voters approve Proposition 6, a $118 million bond proposal for the purchase, creation, and improvement of parks throughout King County. Proposition 6 is one of 12 proposed Forwar...
On October 1, 1970, rock legend Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) is mourned at his Seattle funeral and wake and buried in Renton. Hendrix had died on September 18, 1970, at age 27 while asleep in London, not ...