Keyword(s): Kathleen Kemezis
With the opening of the 1411 4th Avenue Building on 4th Avenue and Union Street in early 1929, the Stimson Realty Company contributed an elegant addition to Seattle's growing central business district...
The Edmond Meany Hotel (1930-1931), a sophisticated and modern structure located in Seattle's University District, emerged from the collaboration of business leaders and citizens of the neighborhood. ...
The Higo 10 Cent Store (later Higo Variety Store, located in Seattle at 602-608 S Jackson Street) represents one of the few threads linking the bustle of Seattle's Japantown of the 1930s to recent eff...
The first wave of Samoan immigrants arrived in Seattle after World War II. Many new arrivals had worked on the naval base in Pago Pago, the capital of American Samoa, which closed with the end of the ...
On June 7, 1910, Judge Boyd J. Tallman of the Supreme Court of Washington State upholds the ruling that Samuel Stone (1869-1942) and his wife, Susie Stone (1869-1962), a Black couple, could ...
On October 6, 1958, the Grant County Board of County Commissioners passes a resolution that places creation of the county's third public port district before voters. In the subsequent November 4, 1958...
In 1964 Samoans in Seattle form the First Samoan Christian Congregational Church in southeast Seattle. They choose Folasa Titialii to act as their pastor. The second Samoan congregation will be the Fi...
In 1973, the Seattle Samoan Center opens at the El Centro de la Raza, a Chicano/Latino community center, in North Beacon Hill. The center addresses the social needs of the Samoan community and provide...
On January 15, 1984, hundreds of singing and chanting people walk from Seattle's Mount Zion Baptist Church to the intersection of E Cherry Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way. For the diverse crowd,...
In 1986 the Seattle Samoan Cricket League forms and organizes games of this cherished pastime of Seattle's Samoan community. The league holds games at the Genesee Field in Rainier Valley, but the bois...
In August 1993, the Samoan residents of Seattle come together at the Jefferson Park Playfield for its first "Aso Mo Samoa" or Samoan Community Day. The day-long event celebrates Samoan cultural herita...
On May 14, 2005, the Lao Highland Community Center, a project of the Lao Highland Association, opens in southeast Seattle near the Othello Playground. The community center, located at 3925 S Bozeman S...