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Gary Greaves Seattle history interviews, 1987-2009
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Greaves, Gary, 1951-2009
- Title
- Gary Greaves Seattle history interviews
- Dates
- 1987-2009 (inclusive)19601995
- Quantity
- 2.76 cubic feet (11 boxes)
- Collection Number
- 5815 (Accession No. 5815-001)
- Summary
- Interviews and related materials collected by Gary Greaves on the subject of Seattle history
- Repository
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University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
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Most interviews can be accessed on the Libraries' Digital Collections website. To access interviews not available online, please contact Special Collections.
Each interview has been transferred to digital format and is available either online or onsite in the Special Collections Reading Room. Original cassette tapes are archived mainly for their artifactual value and were last played for digital conversion in 2014. They should only be played in extraordinary circumstances.
- Languages
- English
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Gary Greaves was born in Michigan in 1951. He worked a number of jobs throughout his lifetime, including apple picker, bike messenger, and janitor. He met his wife, writer and University of Washington professor Frances McCue, while employed at a bookstore in San Francisco. The couple adopted a daughter, Madeleine, from Romania.
Greaves had a strong interest in history, literature, and politics. This oral history project, which Greaves began in 1987, focuses on Seattle in the second half of the twentieth century. The interviews were intended to provide information for a book on which Greaves was working. His death in Morocco on February 12, 2009 at the age of 57 halted the project.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The collection consists of analog audiocassettes and CDs, indices or interview transcripts of each interview, brief biographies of many of the interviewees, manuscript drafts, notes, outlines, timelines, correspondence, and ephemera. The recordings share the behind-the-scenes and inside stories of issues that have shaped Seattle, reaching beyond the headlines to provide details of subjects such as the free breakfast program run by the Black Panthers, the personal story of a homeless man living on Seattle's streets, relations among different Asian ethnic groups as told by politicians and business leaders, and the planners who have seen roads and bridges approved -- and then rescinded. Greaves' knowledge of Seattle engaged the narrators and his warmth drew them to speak openly. The recordings are marked by frankness and depth, which make the stories interesting and smart.
The recordings all relate to post-war Seattle history and cover a diverse array of topics -- such as transportation, race relations, housing, city planning and labor -- narrated by an equally diverse group, including well-known politicians such as Cheryl Chow, Martha Choe and Paul Schell; community activists such as Aaron Dixon (founder of the local Black Panthers chapter) and Hazel Wolf (social and environmental activist); and also including everyday people whom Gary quizzed about the changing face of the neighborhoods.
The collection was digitized in 2014 and most recordings are accessible online: http://content.lib.washington.edu/ohcweb/greaves.html
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Alternative Forms Available
The collection was digitized in 2014 and most recordings are accessible online: Gary Greaves Oral History Digitization Project
Restrictions on Use
Restrictions exist on reproduction, quotation, or publication. Contact repository for details.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
Tapes 1-125 are arranged in numerical order in boxes 1-7 according to Gary Greaves's original numerical designation. Boxes 7 and 8 contain twenty additional tapes that were originally housed at the Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI); these tapes are labeled 1-20 and are arranged in numerical order. Box 9 contains print files of full transcripts of six interviews as well as annotations for tapes 1-55, which include information about sound quality, physical information about the tape, and a list of topics presented throughout the interview. Box 10 contains printed annotations for tapes 56-124 and tapes 1, 13, and 20 from the second set of tapes. Box 10 also contains biographies of most interviewees. Box 11 contains select interview transcripts, manuscript drafts, notes, outlines, timelines, correspondence, ephemera, and CDs of interviews.
Acquisition Information
The materials in this collection were donated by Frances McCue in February 2014. Tapes 1-20 in boxes 7 and 8 were housed at the Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) prior to their transfer to University of Washington Special Collections. Additional materials were received in May 2018.
Processing Note
The interviews were digitized and annotated or transcribed by John Vallier, John George and Deborah Mangold. The archival collection was processed by Jennifer MacDowell and Anne Jenner.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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| 1 | Tape 1 – Clara Fraser
Interviewees affiliated with radical movements, women's movements,
political organizing, the anti-draft movement, the UW campus, SDS, and
Weathermen. Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Coalition of Women's
Left, Office of Women's rights in Seattle, and other aspects of the women's
movement (0:45), united action for different minority issues (6:15), New Left
(14:10), gay movement hysteria (19:00), on-going activism and theory (20:30),
anti-war movement (45:40). Side Two: SDS (2:30), Weathermen Faction of SES
(19:00)
Listen to the audio recording of
this interview on the Libraries Digital Collections website.
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| 1 | Tape 1 – Roger Lippmann (Not available online. Contact
Special Collections for details)
Interviewees affiliated with radical movements, women's movements,
political organizing, the anti-draft movement, the UW campus, SDS, and
Weathermen. Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Coalition of Women's
Left, Office of Women's rights in Seattle, and other aspects of the women's
movement (0:45), united action for different minority issues (6:15), New Left
(14:10), gay movement hysteria (19:00), on-going activism and theory (20:30),
anti-war movement (45:40). Side Two: SDS (2:30), Weathermen Faction of SES
(19:00).
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| 1 | Tape 2 – Bill Chase
Interviewees affiliated with Operation Nightwatch and Bread of
Life Mission. Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Operation Nightwatch
(0:00), city nightlife (4:30), University Street and the Seattle Art Museum
(12:00), drugs (15:00), bars and 24-hour locations downtown (19:30), New
Horizons and the Orion Center (27:30), more about Nightwatch (35:00), low-cost
hotels (44:00). Side Two: Increase of homelessness (1:30), confonting social
problems one-on-one (5:00), Bread of Life Mission (15:00)
Listen to the audio recording of
this interview on the Libraries Digital Collections website.
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| 1 | Tape 2 – Norm Riggins
Pastor Norm Riggins served homeless and poor of Seattle for over
40 years. In 1976, Riggins became the first paid director at Operation
Nightwatch (a ministry that provides a variety of services; shelter, food and
low-income housing to those in need). Riggins remained the executive direction
until the 1990’s. He and his wife, Bonnie, were awarded “Operation Nightwatch
Hero(s) of the Homeless for 2012.” As of 2014, he retains an emeritus position
on the organization’s Board of Directors.
Interviewees affiliated with Operation Nightwatch and Bread of
Life Mission. Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Operation Nightwatch
(0:00), city nightlife (4:30), University Street and the Seattle Art Museum
(12:00), drugs (15:00), bars and 24-hour locations downtown (19:30), New
Horizons and the Orion Center (27:30), more about Nightwatch (35:00), low-cost
hotels (44:00). Side Two: Increase of homelessness (1:30), confonting social
problems one-on-one (5:00), Bread of Life Mission (15:00)
Listen to the audio recording of
this interview on the Libraries Digital Collections website.
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| 1 | Tape 3 – Rita Vivian (Not available online. Contact
Special Collections for details)
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: city development
(0:30), crime (4:00), homelessness (8:30), Downtown Emergency Service Center
(13:00).
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| 1 | Tape 4 – Bruce Zielsdorf
Interviewee affiliated with Skid Row Community Council. Topics of
discussion include, on Side One: housing program (2:00), services located in
Pioneer Square (10:30), gentrification (13:00), health services (16:30),
transitional housing (21:00). Side Two: housing problems (1:00), neighborhood
organizing (7:30), United Way (12:30), Housing Authority (16:00), advocacy
groups and organization (19:00), missions (31:30), Skid Row Community Council
(39:30), Morrison Hotel (41:30).
Listen to the audio recording of
this interview on the Libraries Digital Collections website.
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| 1 | Tape 5 – John Caughlan
John Caughlan was a Seattle attorney and civil rights leader for
over six decades. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1935 and came to
Seattle shortly thereafter. His involvement in progressive causes began when he
represented the Communist Party in 1937 and defended their right to hold a
rally in the Seattle Civic Auditorium. In the 1940’s, Caughlan provided legal
council to people brought before the Canwell Committee and represented many UW
professors and affiliates fired for alleged ties to the Communist Party. In
1964, Caughlan represented civil rights activists in Mississippi, members of
the Black Panther Party, and many others who had faced legal prosecution based
on their beliefs. In 1987, Caughlan received the ACLU’s William O. Douglas
award for “outstanding and sustained contributions to the cause of civil
liberties and freedom.” He passed away in 1999.
John Caughlin talks about the Cold War, activist groups and peace
groups in Seattle and his legal representation of conscientious objectors to
the Vietnam War. Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Cold War (00:00),
World without War and other peace groups (2:00), Catholic Workers (6:30),
Vietnam War (10:00), National Lawyer's Guild and the Bar Association (13:00),
environmental destruction and urban sprawl (17:00), Nicaragua (18:30), National
Lawyer's Guild (21:30), World's Fair (34:00), politics and politicians (43:30).
Side Two: Municipal League (9:00), increasing costs and real estate values
(22:30), plans to close Garfield High School (31:00), Seattle University
(35:00). Other individuals and organizations discussed include Hazel Wolf, Abe
Keller, Sarah Lesser, Phil Martin, the Activist Bar Association, and Line of
March. The time period discussed ranges from 1945-1980.
Listen to the audio recording of
this interview on the Libraries Digital Collections website.
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| 1 | Tape 5 – David Sprague
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Cold War (00:00),
World without War and other peace groups (2:00), Catholic Workers (6:30),
Vietnam War (10:00), National Lawyer's Guild and the Bar Association (13:00),
environmental destruction and urban sprawl (17:00), Nicaragua (18:30), National
Lawyer's Guild (21:30), World's Fair (34:00), politics and politicians (43:30).
Side Two: Municipal League (9:00), increasing costs and real estate values
(22:30), plans to close Garfield High School (31:00), Seattle University
(35:00)
Listen to the audio recording of
this interview on the Libraries Digital Collections website.
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| 1 | Tape 6 – Abe and Rosemary Keller
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: environmental movement
(1:30), volunteerism and environmentalism in Seattle (9:30), problems forming
coalitions (18:30), elderly groups (29:00). Side Two: Chamber of Commerce
(00:00), downtown (7:00), McCarthyism and the Communist party (19:00),
Association for Faculty Action (37:30), ACLU peace march (44:30).
Listen to the audio recording of
this interview on the Libraries Digital Collections website.
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| 1 | Tape 6 – Hazel Wolf
Hazel Wolf was an environmental and social activist who was born
in Victoria, British Columbia. During the Depression, employed by the Works
Project Administration, Wolf set about unionizing workers. In 1964, she began
an active involvement with the Seattle Audubon Society, which was to continue
for the rest of her life. In 1990, Wolf met a Soviet delegation and held
discussions that paved the way for the founding of the Leningrad Audubon
Society in Russia. She lectured and taught at schools and universities all over
the United States. She lobbied Congress on irrigation, labor rights, nuclear
energy, and peace. She never held a political post higher than precinct
committee officer in Seattle’s 43rd legislative district, and her highest
office in the environmental movement was that of secretary in the Seattle
Audubon Society, where she served for thirty-five years. She passed away in
2000. She was 101 years old.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: environmental movement
(1:30), volunteerism and environmentalism in Seattle (9:30), problems forming
coalitions (18:30), elderly groups (29:00). Side Two: Chamber of Commerce
(00:00), downtown (7:00), McCarthyism and the Communist party (19:00),
Association for Faculty Action (37:30), ACLU peace march (44:30).
Listen to the audio recording of
this interview on the Libraries Digital Collections website.
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| 1 | Tape 7 – Phil and Lois Hayasaka (Not available online.
Contact Special Collections for details)
Seattle native Phil Hayasaka spent WWII in an internment camp. He
served as President of the Seattle Japanese American Citizens League, President
of the Jackson Street Community Council, and became the first Director of the
Seattle Human Rights Commission. Lois Hayasaka was a researcher-writer who
worked for the State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Voluntary Racial
Transfer Program (00:30), experience as a black student (1:00), Baptist Church
(13:00), death of Martin Luther King (15:00), meeting civil rights leaders
(32:30), KYAC radion station (37:00). Side Two: evacuation and curfew (8:30),
civil rights movement and the Redress Movement (13:00), Asian American
Community (16:00), Jackson Street Community Council (19:00), Wing Luke (25:30).
Other individuals and organizations discussed include Helen Dewe, Frankie
Irigon, Al Sukuyama, Ruby Chow, Betty Kan, Sam Smith, Gordon Clinton, Bob
Lavoie, John Hirsh Adams, Ray Baker, Hal Westberg, Don Hoss, Rev. Sam McKinney,
Johnny Allen, Sean Walker, Kenneth Coleman, John Eickelberg, Robert Reese, Rev.
D. Harvey McIntyre, Elton Clark, Roy Skagen, Noreen Skagen, Frank Raymond, Buzz
Cook, Tyree Scott, James (Dorm) Braman, Merrill Ash, the Filipino Forum, Asian
Coalition for Equality, Urban League, Open Housing, Japanese Apartment House
Owners Association, Seattle City Council, Fair Housing Committee, US Commission
on Human Rights, United Construction Workers Association (UCWA), Office of
Management and Budget (OMB), and Black Muslims. The time period discussed
ranges from 1940-1992.
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| 1 | Tape 7 – Jesse Wineberry
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Voluntary Racial
Transfer Program (00:30), experience as a black student (1:00), Baptist Church
(13:00), death of Martin Luther King (15:00), meeting civil rights leaders
(32:30), KYAC radion station (37:00). Side Two: evacuation and curfew (8:30),
civil rights movement and the Redress Movement (13:00), Asian American
Community (16:00), Jackson Street Community Council (19:00), Wing Luke
(25:30).
Listen to the audio recording of
this interview on the Libraries Digital Collections website.
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| 1 | Tape 8 – Walt Hundley (Not available online. Contact
Special Collections for details.)
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: transportation issues
and the Seattle Transit Authority (1:00), Black Panters (9:30), Office of
Management and Budget (15:00), Urban League (22:00), Central Area Civil Rights
Committee (27:00), pickett, boycott, and other civil rights strategies (37:00).
Side Two: low-income housing (1:00), Seattle Housing Resource Group (4:30),
Capitol Hill Improvement Program and low-income housing (12:30), medical care
programs at shelters (24:00), Morrison Hotel (37:00), First Avenue Service
Center (41:30).
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| 1 | Tape 8 – Otis (Not available online. Contact Special
Collections for details.)
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: transportation issues
and the Seattle Transit Authority (1:00), Black Panters (9:30), Office of
Management and Budget (15:00), Urban League (22:00), Central Area Civil Rights
Committee (27:00), pickett, boycott, and other civil rights strategies (37:00).
Side Two: low-income housing (1:00), Seattle Housing Resource Group (4:30),
Capitol Hill Improvement Program and low-income housing (12:30), medical care
programs at shelters (24:00), Morrison Hotel (37:00), First Avenue Service
Center (41:30).
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| 1 | Tape 9 – Kenneth Baxter
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: meat markets and
businesses (2:30), Operation Nightwatch (5:00), First Avenue Service Center
(13:30), Project First Step (32:00), shelters (36:30), alcoholism (39:30). Side
Two: Space Needle construction (5:30), hotels and taverns (9:00), Ruby Label's
Hawk Shop/First Avenue Service Center (15:00), food banks and relief programs
(33:30), Central Warehouse Operation (38:00).
Listen to the audio recording of
this interview on the Libraries Digital Collections website.
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| 1 | Tape 9 – Terry Marcell
Terry Marcell is a long time advocate for the poor and homeless.
He was the director of the First Avenue Service Center, a Seattle homeless
shelter, during the 1990’s. Marcell is currently a Deacon and pastoral
assistant at Christ Our Hope Parish in Seattle.
Interviewees affiliated with Operation Nightwatch, First Avenue
Service Center, Boeing, Neighbors in Need warehouse, and food banks. Topics of
discussion include, on Side One: meat markets and businesses (2:30), Operation
Nightwatch (5:00), First Avenue Service Center (13:30), Project First Step
(32:00), shelters (36:30), alcoholism (39:30). Side Two: Space Needle
construction (5:30), hotels and taverns (9:00), Ruby Label's Hawk Shop/First
Avenue Service Center (15:00), food banks and relief programs (33:30), Central
Warehouse Operation (38:00). The time period discussed ranges from
1935-1992.
Listen to the audio recording of
this interview on the Libraries Digital Collections website.
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| 1 | Tape 10 – Ralph Anderson
Ralph Anderson was a prominent Seattle architect. He graduated
from the University of Washington Architecture School in his native Seattle in
1951 and received his Washington State architectural license in 1954. Anderson
helped develop the Northwest Style of architecture, using wood and other
natural materials to design houses that complemented the environment instead of
dominating it. Often called the "father of Pioneer Square," he was an early and
important contributor (and investor) in the restoration of Seattle's Pioneer
Square neighborhood and also participated in restoration projects along First
Avenue in the Pike Place Market Historical District in the 1970s. He passed
away in 2010.
Topics of discussion include: development of Pioneer Square and
Downtown (00:30), Grand Central (15:00),Allied Arts Urban Committee (19:30).
Side Two: Aurora bridge (9:30), loss of historic buildings (15:00), Save the
Market campaign and Pioneer Square Ordinance (17:00), proposition of historic
districts (19:30)
Listen to the audio recording of
this interview on the Libraries Digital Collections website.
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| 1 | Tape 10 – Paul Staten (Not available online. Contact
Special Collections for details.)
Topics of discussion include: development of Pioneer Square and
Downtown (00:30), Grand Central (15:00),Allied Arts Urban Committee (19:30).
Side Two: Aurora bridge (9:30), loss of historic buildings (15:00), Save the
Market campaign and Pioneer Square Ordinance (17:00), proposition of historic
districts (19:30)
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| 1 | Tape 11 – Dorothy and Fred Cordova (Not available online.
Contact Special Collections for details.)
Dorothy Cordova is an civil activist, educator, author and
historian. A Seattle native, she is second-generation Filipino American and a
member of the largest pioneering family in Western Washington. She has been
involved in Filipino American activism since the 1950’s. In 1957, Dorothy and
her husband, Fred, co-founded the Filipino Youth Activities (FYA) of Seattle
and created the award-winning FYA Drill Team in 1959. The FYA became an
important force for organizing demonstrations in the 1960’s and 1970’s. The
Cordovas also created the Demonstration Project for Asian Americans in the
1970’s, and the Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS) in the
1980’s. She is the Executive Director of FANHS.
Fred Cordova was a civic leader, activist, educator and a Filipino
American icon. Born in Calfornia in 1931, he was adopted and raised in a family
of migrant-contract-farmers. He moved to Seattle in 1948 to attend Seattle
University. In 1957, Fred and his wife, Dorothy, co-founded the Filipino Youth
Activities (FYA) of Seattle and created the award-winning FYA Drill Team in
1959. The FYA became an important force for organizing demonstrations in the
1960’s and 1970’s.The Cordovas also created the Demonstration Project for Asian
Americans in the 1970’s, and the Filipino American National Historical Society
in the 1980’s. In 1998, Seattle University awarded him an honorary doctorate
for lifetime achievements in research, writing and promoting Filipino American
history and community. He passed away in 2013.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: history of Filipino
immigration to the United States and Seattle (2:30). Side Two: Filipino gangs
and crime (00:00), Filipino Youth Activities (2:30), Filipino National
Historical Society (3:00), lack of benefits, representation, and voice for
Filipinos (9:00). Individuals and topics discussed include Dolores Sibonga,
Morris Hardcastle, Rev. D. Harvey McIntyre, Archbishop Thomas, Walter Hubbard
Jr., Bob Santos, Norm Rice, Gabo Zabronga, Delama Poria, Dolly Castillo,
Maryknoll Jesuit School, Seattle College, Open Housing, Seattle Catholic
Interracial Council, and the University of Washington. The time period
discussed ranges from 1880-1992.
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| 1 | Tape 12 – Lem Howell
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Asian immigration
(00:00), internment during World War II (12:00), assimilation and loss of
culture over generations (21:00), Pan-Asian community (32:00). Side Two: Blue
Laws (15:30).
Listening copy available on Compact Disc located in box 11
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| 1 | Tape 12 – Ron Shy (Not available online. Contact Special
Collections for details.)
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Asian immigration
(00:00), internment during World War II (12:00), assimilation and loss of
culture over generations (21:00), Pan-Asian community (32:00). Side Two: Blue
Laws (15:30).
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| 1 | Tape 13 – John Fox (full transcript available in Box
9)
John Fox is a longtime housing activist and advocate for Seattle’s
low-income and homeless population. After earning a bachelor's degree in
political science at the University of Washington, Fox found employment through
the Comprehensive Employment Training Act, a federal law enacted in 1973 to
train workers and provide them with jobs in public service through grant
monies. In 1977, he founded the Seattle Displacement Coalition, a low-income
housing organization and task force. He remains the Coalition coordinator and
organizes around low-income housing and gentrification issues in the
Seattle/King County area. He was also a member of the Eastlake Community
Council.
Interviewee affiliated with Eastlake Community Council. Topics of
discussion include, on Side One: community council movement involvement,
Eastlake Community Council, and the Floating Homes Association (00:00),
Mobilization for Youth (2:00), Eastlake council formation (3:00), Vietnam war
era (6:00), Seattle Central Community Council Federation (13:00), Displacement
Coalition (21:30), low-income impact and communities (25:00), Capitol Hill
development (29:30), Demolition Control Ordinance (35:00). Individuals and
organizations discussed include Glover Barnes, Chris Leeman, Gary Clark, Bob
Shapiro, Frank Chopp, Scott Marl, Craig Peck, Bob Fish, Tom Beyers, Tim Ride,
Sharon Fagin, Peter Constantine, Joe Martin, Schell, Glenn Young, Mobilization
for Youth, Montlake Community Club, and Washington Education Association.
Listen to the audio recording of
this interview on the Libraries Digital Collections website.
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| 1 | Tape 14 – Margaret Pageler (Not available online. Contact
Special Collections for details.)
Margaret Pageler is a Seattle lawyer and politician. She was a
Seattle City Council member from 1992 until 2003, spending two years as Council
president. She participated in the development of County-wide Planning
Policies, as well as Seattle’s Comprehensive Plan. While on city council, she
was also appointed to the State Board of Health and also chaired the board of
the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency. In 2004, Pageler was appointed to the Central
Puget Sound Growth Management Hearings Board by Governor Gary Locke and
reappointed for a second 6-year term by Governor Chris Gregoire in 2010.
Topics of discussion inlcude, on Side One: activism in the current
political climate (00:00), community planning and neighborhood zoning (3:30),
community councils (8:00), housing program (25:00), urban renewal and community
activism (26:30). Side Two: Wes Ullman administration (00:00), Seattle Magazine
(7:30), Allied Arts (10:00), Planning Commissioner (12:30), neighborhood
identities and zoning (15:00).
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| 1 | Tape 14 – Paul Staten
Topics of discussion inlcude, on Side One: activism in the current
political climate (00:00), community planning and neighborhood zoning (3:30),
community councils (8:00), housing program (25:00), urban renewal and community
activism (26:30). Side Two: Wes Ullman administration (00:00), Seattle Magazine
(7:30), Allied Arts (10:00), Planning Commissioner (12:30), neighborhood
identities and zoning (15:00).
Listen to the audio recording of
this interview on the Libraries Digital Collections website.
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| 1 | Tape 15 – Fred Cordova
Fred Cordova was a civic leader, activist, educator and a Filipino
American icon. Born in Calfornia in 1931, he was adopted and raised in a family
of migrant-contract-farmers. He moved to Seattle in 1948 to attend Seattle
University. In 1957, Fred and his wife, Dorothy, co-founded the Filipino Youth
Activities (FYA) of Seattle and created the award-winning FYA Drill Team in
1959. The FYA became an important force for organizing demonstrations in the
1960’s and 1970’s.The Cordovas also created the Demonstration Project for Asian
Americans in the 1970’s, and the Filipino American National Historical Society
in the 1980’s. In 1998, Seattle University awarded him an honorary doctorate
for lifetime achievements in research, writing and promoting Filipino American
history and community. He passed away in 2013.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: city goverment and
community structure (6:00), preservation of Pioneer Square (22:30). Side Two:
corporate image of Pioneer Square (9:00), Socialist Worker's Party (20:00),
Communist Party (20:30), 1948 Boeing Strike (23:00), anti-war (26:30), unions
and racism (34:30), Vietnam War (44:30), the New Left (45:00).
Listen to the audio recording of
this interview on the Libraries Digital Collections website.
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| 1 | Tape 15 –Clara Fraser
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: city goverment and
community structure (6:00), preservation of Pioneer Square (22:30). Side Two:
corporate image of Pioneer Square (9:00), Socialist Worker's Party (20:00),
Communist Party (20:30), 1948 Boeing Strike (23:00), anti-war (26:30), unions
and racism (34:30), Vietnam War (44:30), the New Left (45:00).
Listen to the audio recording of
this interview on the Libraries Digital Collections website.
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| 1 | Tape 15 – Art Skolnick
Art Skolnik is a Seattle architect, urban planner and preservation
advocate. His conservation activism began when he was hired by the Seattle city
architect's office for the 1970’s campaign to save Pioneer Square from urban
renewal. In 1975, Skolnik was appointed as the first official Washington State
Historic Preservation Officer (the first such appointment in the nation). Since
then he has worked in many capacities towards civic historical preservation and
economic development; his posts include Washington State Conservator and the
Executive Director of the Washington State Advisory Council on Historic
Preservation.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: city goverment and
community structure (6:00), preservation of Pioneer Square (22:30). Side Two:
corporate image of Pioneer Square (9:00), Socialist Worker's Party (20:00),
Communist Party (20:30), 1948 Boeing Strike (23:00), anti-war (26:30), unions
and racism (34:30), Vietnam War (44:30), the New Left (45:00).
Listen to the audio recording of
this interview on the Libraries Digital Collections website.
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| 1 | Tape 16 – Ruby Label
Ruby Label was a longtime business owner in downtown Seattle
before moving to Florida.
Topics of discussion include, on Side Two: Housing urban
development (20:00), First Avenue Service Center (21:30). The time period
discussed ranges from 1935-1992.
Listen to the audio recording of
this interview on the Libraries Digital Collections website.
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| 1 | Tape 18 – George Cooley (Not available online. Contact
Special Collections for details.)
Topics on discussion include, on Side One: welfare (1:00), police
racism (6:15), community assistance (9:00), National Association of Welfare
Workers (15:30), consolidated emergency assistance program (24:00),
unemployment rate (36:00). Side Two: Black Panters and the black community
(2:15), funding and lack of resources (7:45), Lake City Improved for Tomorrow
(24:00), political campaigns (25:30).
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| 1 | Tape 18 – Kay Thode
Kay Thode was a social worker and welfare policy analyst. She
worked as Director of the Seattle Urban League's Health and Welfare Department
from 1968 to 1983. She subsequently worked as a planner for the King County
Health Planning Council, a subarea council of the Puget Sound Health Systems
Agency. She advocated for the rights of welfare recipients and the poor, and
testified frequently before local, state, and federal government bodies. She
lives in Seattle.
Topics on discussion include, on Side One: welfare (1:00), police
racism (6:15), community assistance (9:00), National Association of Welfare
Workers (15:30), consolidated emergency assistance program (24:00),
unemployment rate (36:00). Side Two: Black Panters and the black community
(2:15), funding and lack of resources (7:45), Lake City Improved for Tomorrow
(24:00), political campaigns (25:30).
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| 1 | Tape 19 – Ralph Jones
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: real estate (00:00),
property development (13:00), Lake City (23:00), housing building permits
(31:00). Side Two: Windmere real estate company (4:45), first community council
(6:15), View Ridge (8:45), Sand Point development (21:15).
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| 1 | Tape 20 – James Fergin (Not available online. Contact
Special Collections for details.)
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Skid Road (7:00),
missions and service centers (9:30), the Compass Center (16:00), alcoholic
recovery program (25:15), United Way (31:00). Side Two: relationship between
agencies and shelters (6:00)
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| 1 | Tape 20 – Bob Hintz (Not available online. Contact Special
Collections for details.)
Robert Hintz was an urban planner and architect. He was a member
of the Seattle Planning Department for numerous years. Hintz was hired as a
principal city planner in 1953. Hintz served as Chief Planner for the Seattle
Planning Commission in the 1960’s and helped develop the plans for the
Seattle World's Fair held in 1962. He passed away in 2008.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Skid Road (7:00),
missions and service centers (9:30), the Compass Center (16:00), alcoholic
recovery program (25:15), United Way (31:00). Side Two: relationship between
agencies and shelters (6:00). The time period discussed ranges from
1935-1992.
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| 2 | Tape 21 – Earl Blomberg
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Broadway High School
(2:00), changes to the Eastlake neighborhood (9:30), diversity in Seattle
(22:30), I-5 dividing the Eastlake neighborhood (32:00). Side Two: urban
renewal (7:30), zoning (13:30)
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| 2 | Tape 21 – Unidentified (Not available online. Contact
Special Collections for details.)
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Broadway High School
(2:00), changes to the Eastlake neighborhood (9:30), diversity in Seattle
(22:30), I-5 dividing the Eastlake neighborhood (32:00). Side Two: urban
renewal (7:30), zoning (13:30)
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| 2 | Tape 22 – Jim Ellis (Not available online. Contact Special Collections for details.) | |
| 2 | Tape 23 – Tyree Scott (full transcript available in Box 9)
(Not available online. Contact Special Collections for details.)
Tyree Scott was a labor leader and activist who championed
minority workers and equal opportunity organizations. Scott, an electrician,
grew up in Texas, moved to Seattle in 1966 and became a leader in the Central
Contractors Association (CCA), an organization that fought discrimination in
the unions and construction trades. In 1970, he founded the United Construction
Workers Association (UCWA) to coordinate a grassroots movement to end union
discrimination against minority workers. In 1973, the UCWA, the Alaska Cannery
Workers Association, and the Northwest chapter of the United Farm Workers
joined forces to found the Northwest Labor and Employment Law Office (LELO).
During the 1980s, Scott began taking his labor and civil rights mission abroad
and formed organizations to help laborers in developing countries. In 1997, he
led a LELO-sponsored Seattle conference international conference which drew
delegates from a dozen countries who discussed leadership of labor and civil
rights activism. He passed away 2003.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: black membership in
unions (4:15), CCA (18:15). Side Two: Black Panthers (5:30), radical tactics
(14:45).
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| 2 | Tape 25 – Clark (Not available online. Contact Special
Collections for details)
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: the Compass Center
(00:30), roadblocks to recovery from alcoholism (5:15), transitional houses
(6:00), ADOTSA (7:15), crime and drugs (30:00).
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| 2 | Tape 26 – Ken Lowthian
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Sewer Committee (1:15),
arterial construction (5:15), growth in population after World War II (6:30),
engineering department (25:00), Braman as mayor (32:30), public safety building
(39:00). Side Two: development of the waterfront and downtown (20:45), railroad
yards (28:30), regional water system (36:00).
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| 2 | Tape 27 – Bernie (Not available online. Contact Special
Collections for details)
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: homelessness and
shelters in Seattle (10:00).
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| 2 | Tape 28 – Patrick McCabe
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: punk bands (7:00),
drugs (40:00). Side Two: music and art (3:00).
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| 2 | Tape 29 – Jim Barnes (Not available online. Contact
Special Collections for details.)
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: planning commission and
road issues (00:30), apartment zoning (3:30), residential and industrial areas
(15:00).
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| 2 | Tape 30 – Jean Crosby
Jean Crosby had been homeless for over twenty years, struggling
with drugs, alcohol, prostitution and crime.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: streetlife and drinking
(6:45), alcoholism (7:45), drug use (46:00). Side Two: crime (00:30), the
Compass Center (21:15). Other organizations discussed include Therapeutic
Health Services.
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| 2 | Tape 31 – Murray Clacys
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: comprehensive plan
(00:00), Neighborhood Matching Funds (2:30), Seattle World's Fair (5:30),
Boeing and Microsoft's involvement in politics (30:15), the arts in Seattle
(37:15).
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| 2 | Tape 31 – Jim Diers (Not available online. Contact Special
Collections for details.)
Jim Diers, who was born in Iowa, was appointed as the first
director of Seattle’s Department of Neighborhoods in 1988. After leaving the
Department of Neighborhoods in 2002, Jim worked as Interim Director of the
Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association and as Executive Director of the
South Downtown Foundation.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: comprehensive plan
(00:00), Neighborhood Matching Funds (2:30), Seattle World's Fair (5:30),
Boeing and Microsoft's involvement in politics (30:15), the arts in Seattle
(37:15). Other individuals, organizations, and topics discussed include Diers's
work as a community organizer, criteria for a successful neighborhood, the
changing focus of community groups, city funding practices, the need for city
and neighboorhood planning, Jim Street, Mary Jo Shannon, Neighborhood Planning
Assistance Program, South End Seattle Community Organization (SESCO), Greenwood
Gardens, Holly Park, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD),
Light Brigade, Seattle City Light, Washington Public Power Supply System
(WPPPS), Washington Fair Share, South East Crime Council, Power for Schools,
Seattle Foundation, Industrial Area Foundation, Association for Community
Organizing and Reform Now, Neighborhood Public Assistance Program, Food Banks,
Scattered Site Program, and New Growth Management Act. The time period
discussed ranges from 1970 to 1991.
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| 2 | Tape 32 – Philip Burton
Philip Burton was lawyer and civil rights activist. Born in
Topeka, Kansas, as a law student, he brought suit against the City of Topeka
for discrimination in the city-owned movie theaters and public swimming pools.
He worked on the initial filing of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education
case (it was the Topeka Board of Education). Burton moved to Seattle in 1949
and started a law practice that continued until his retirement in 1990. For 45
years he served on the board of the Seattle Branch of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and addressed many housing,
employment and school issues. In 1962, as the association’s attorney, he
brought a lawsuit against the Seattle School District to end public school
segregation. In 1967, he helped win passage of the state’s Fair Housing Act
which barred discrimination in real estate transactions. In 1977 he threatened
a lawsuit against the Seattle School District which spurred the adoption of a
mandatory school desegregation program. He passed away 1995.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: African American
community in the Central District (1:15), housing problems (8:45), human rights
commission (17:15), NAACP-organized demonstrations during the World's Fair
(37:30), civil rights and local activism (46:15). Other individuals discussed
include Richard Milhous Nixon, James (Jim) Reed, and Robert L. Reese. The time
period discussed ranges from 1950-1995.
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| 2 | Tape 33 – Lois and Phil Hayasaka (Not available online.
Contact Special Collections for details.)
Seattle native Phil Hayasaka spent WWII in an internment camp. He
served as President of the Seattle Japanese American Citizens League, President
of the Jackson Street Community Council, and became the first Director of the
Seattle Human Rights Commission. Lois Hayasaka was a researcher-writer who
worked for the State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil
Rights.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Asian stereotypes
(00:15), Education Opportunity Program (4:00), demonstrations (6:15), Jackson
Street Community Council (21:45), neighborhood associations and organizations
(23:00), urban renewal (31:45), Eastlake Community Council and Floating Homes
Association (42:15). Side Two: renewal along Eastlake (00:15), cheap housing in
Seattle (20:30), 520 bridge and neighborhood opposition (30:45), city
relationships with community councils (44:00).
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| 2 | Tape 33 – Beth Means
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Asian stereotypes
(00:15), Education Opportunity Program (4:00), demonstrations (6:15), Jackson
Street Community Council (21:45), neighborhood associations and organizations
(23:00), urban renewal (31:45), Eastlake Community Council and Floating Homes
Association (42:15). Side Two: renewal along Eastlake (00:15), cheap housing in
Seattle (20:30), 520 bridge and neighborhood opposition (30:45), city
relationships with community councils (44:00).
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this interview on the Libraries Digital Collections website.
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| 2 | Tape 34 – Martha Choe
Martha Choe ran for office in 1990 and won a seat on the Seattle
City Council. She was the first Korean American official elected in the
country. She served two terms as council member. Choe served as the director of
the Washington State Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development.
She joined the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2004 as the Director of
the Global Libraries initiative in the foundation's Global Development Program
and now holds the position of Chief Administrative Officer. She has long been
active in civic and Asian American organizations and serves on several boards
including as former chair of the White House Commission on Asian American and
Pacific Islanders.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Korean immigrant
experience (00:00), domestic violence in the Asian community (21:00), Korean
Community Counseling Center (22:45), Korean-Americans in politics (31:45).
Other individuals discussed include Gloria Lee and Chang Hei Lee.
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| 2 | Tape 34 – Phillip Sherburne
Topics of discussion include, on Side Two: commerical and
residential zoning laws (00:30), Forward Thrust (3:45), regional rail
(6:00).
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| 2 | Tape 35 – Elmer Dixon
Elmer Dixon co-founded the Seattle Chapter of the Black Panther
Party with his older brother Aaron Dixon in 1968. He served as the chapter’s
Field Marshall, as well as the coordinator of the organization’s Breakfast
Program, a highly successful free breakfast program for hungry schoolchildren.
He worked to sustain the Party's breakfast program and health clinic,
maintaining the Panther organization until 1976 and some programs into the
1980’s. Dixon now works as a diversity consultant as the President and CEO of
one of the foremost companies in the United States working with company clients
on diversity and inclusiveness issues.
Topics of discussion include, on Side Two: Garfield High School
and Black Student Union (1:15), start of the Black Panther Party in Seattle
(15:00), breakfast meetings (24:00), spontaneous events and riots (26:00), need
for multi-cultural approach (33:00). Other individuals and organizations
discussed inluce Wesley C. Uhlman, and the Student Non-violent Co-ordinatin
Committee (SNCC).
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| 2 | Tape 36 – Dorothy Hollingsworth
Dorothy Hollingsworth was the first African American woman to
serve on the Washington State school board. She was elected in 1975 to the
Seattle School Board and was elected its president in 1979. She served for six
years, successfully guiding the board during the era of school desegregation.
In 1965, she became the first director of the Seattle school system's Head
Start Program (the first in Washington state). From 1969 to 1972, she served as
Deputy Director for Planning for the Model Cities Program. After the Model
Cities Program ended, she became the Director of Early Childhood Education for
the City of Seattle and then later, Director of Family, Women and Children's
Services for the City of Seattle. In the early 1980’s, she served as Deputy
Director for the Department of Human Resources for the City of Seattle. In
1984, she was elected to the State Board of Education, serving until 1993.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Segregation (00:00),
black immigration to Seattle and employment opportunities for blacks (3:15),
Urban League (14:15), Head Start program (22:00), Affirmative Action (31:00),
bussing (32:45), struggles with beauracracy despite strong community support
(6:45), Model Cities program (15:00), Seattle School Board (20:00), bussing and
desegregation (24:00).
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| 2 | Tape 38 – George Benson
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: political career
(3:30), neighborhood councils and block watch programs (5:15), city council
(8:00), 1960s businesses (19:30), the waterfront (20:45), I-5 planning and
construction (21:45), regional transporation and Boeing bust (27:30),
low-income housing (32:00), comprehensive plan of 1957 (40:30), neighborhood
rezoning (43:45). On Side Two: housing and neighborhood politics (00:00).
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| 2 | Tape 38 – John Caughlan (Not available online. Contact
Special Collections for details.)
John Caughlan was a Seattle attorney and civil rights leader for
over six decades. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1935 and came to
Seattle shortly thereafter. His involvement in progressive causes began when he
represented the Communist Party in 1937 and defended their right to hold a
rally in the Seattle Civic Auditorium. In the 1940’s, Caughlan provided legal
council to people brought before the Canwell Committee and represented many UW
professors and affiliates fired for alleged ties to the Communist Party. In
1964, Caughlan represented civil rights activists in Mississippi, members of
the Black Panther Party, and many others who had faced legal prosecution based
on their beliefs. In 1987, Caughlan received the ACLU’s William O. Douglas
award for “outstanding and sustained contributions to the cause of civil
liberties and freedom.” He passed away in 1999.
Topics of discussion include, on Side Two: work as an attorney for
the Black Panters (11:30), race relations (22:30), 1948 Canwell Hearings
(32:00), communism in the United States (39:30). Other individuals discussed
include Larry Ward. The time period discussed ranges from 1960-1980.
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| 2 | Tape 39 – Aaron Dixon
Aaron Dixon was co-founder and Captain of the Seattle chapter of
the Black Panther Party in 1968. While a member of the Black Panthers, Dixon
started the Free Breakfast for Children program that fed thousands of hungry
African American children; and he helped to open a free community medical and
legal clinic. The clinic is now known as the Carolyn Downs Clinic, and is a
part of Country Doctor Community Health Center. In 2006, he ran for the United
States Senate on the Green Party ticket. He has remained engaged in politics
since, founding Central House, a nonprofit that provides transitional housing
for youth, and co-founded Cannon House, a senior assisted-living facility.
Dixon has written an autobiography,
My People Are Rising: Memoir
of a Black Panther Party Captain (2012) published by Haymarket
Press.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: civil rights movement
(00:00), Black Arts West (2:15), Black Panther Party in Seattle (8:30),
breakfast program (44:30). On Side Two: Seattle Liberation Front (00:15), gangs
(3:45). Other individuals and organizations discussed include Tommy Jones,
Tyree Scott, the Black Student Union, and the Student Non-violent Co-ordinating
Committee (SNCC).
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| 2 | Tape 39 – Guela Gayton (Not available online. Contact
Special Collections for details)
Guela Gayton Johnson was the first African American librarian to
head a University of Washington departmental library. She is the oldest
grandchild of John T. (1866-1954) and Magnolia Gayton (1880-1954), black
pioneers who settled in Seattle in 1888. After receiving her Master of Library
Science degree from the University of Washington in 1969, she became the first
professional librarian to head the UW's School of Social Work library, a post
she held until her retirement in 1992. Johnson has served on the board of the
Black Heritage Society of Washington State and its collection committee. A
founding member of the Seattle Chapter of Links, Inc., she has been active for
more than 50 years in this national service organization of predominately
African American women.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: civil rights movement
(00:00), Black Arts West (2:15), Black Panther Party in Seattle (8:30),
breakfast program (44:30). On Side Two: Seattle Liberation Front (00:15), gangs
(3:45). Other individuals and organizations discussed include Edwin T. Pratt,
Jerome Page, Vivian Carver, Ronald Regan, Jack Tanner, Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Malcolm X, Phillip Burton, Sid Gerber, Seattle Urban League, University of
Washington, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),
Christians for Racial Equality, Youth Meeting (YM), and SOIC.
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| 3 | Tape 40 – Charles Johnson
Charles Vernon Johnson was the presiding judge of King County
Superior Court and a Seattle civil rights activist and organizer. After serving
in the U.S. army for four years, he finished college in Arkansas, his native
state. He moved to Seattle in 1954 to attend law school at the University of
Washington, one of only a few of African American graduate students on the
campus at that time. After his graduation in 1957, he was asked to join the
Seattle chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP) and ended up spending almost 40 years in leadership roles and
functioning as a leading figure in the Central Area Civil Rights Organization.
Johnson served as Chair of the Board that oversaw Model Cities in the late
1960’s. He was appointed a Municipal Court Judge (1969-1980) and to the
Superior Court bench in 1981, a position he held until his retirement in
1998.
Topics of discussion include, on Side Two: experiences as a black
man in Seattle in the 1950s (5:30), NAACP (7:45), Urban League (11:45), schools
and bussing (13:00), Open Housing Ordinance (18:00), Human Rights Commission
(21:00), Federal Civil Rights Commission (23:15), housing lawss (27:30).
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| 3 | Tape 40 – John Little
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: subtle racism in
Seattle (6:00), experience being on welfare (10:30), experience on black work
crews (16:00), Model Cities (20:30), Mt. Baker Youth Service Bureau (32:00),
4-H program (35:00), Challenge program (38:15).
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| 3 | Tape 41 – Isaiah Edwards
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: integration of the fire
department (2:30), choke hold laws (5:30), Garfield High School (19:00),
fundraising to support sports teams (29:00), disappointment of Model Cities
(35:00), Black Panthers (39:15). On Side Two: proposed closing of a black
school (3:30), SOIC (10:00), World's Fair (40:00).
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| 3 | Tape 42 – Ruby Chow
Topics of discussion include, on Side Two: Chinese immigrant
experience (00:15), Pan-Asian activity in Seattle (8:00), Chinatown revival
(11:30), first Chinese woman on King County Council (13:00), Chinese politics
(19:30), Chinese population centers in Seattle (21:00), source of Chinese
population growth (30:30).
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| 3 | Tape 42 – Paul Kraabel
Paul Kraabel was appointed to Seattle City Council in 1975,
filling a seat vacated by Bruce Chapman. He won the special election to
complete the unexpired term and kept his seat on the Council until 1991,
retiring after serving four full terms. Kraabel worked as an electrical
engineer with Boeing before joining the City Council. He was also elected to
the State Legislature as a representative in 1971 and served for four years. He
returned briefly to City Council in 1996 to fill a seat vacated by Tom Weeks,
who resigned to work for the Seattle School District.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: city council and state
legislature experience (00:45), Land Use committee (3:00), Forward Thrust
(4:00), plans for rail lines (7:00), Regional Transit Plan (12:15), land use
issues in the 1970s (18:15), comprehensive plan (19:00), public participation
in shaping planning (26:00), more about regional transit (29:15).
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| 3 | Tape 43 – Cheryl Chow
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: cooperation among Asian
communities (1:00), access to services (4:30), family structure (5:30).
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| 3 | Tape 44 – Bob Reed
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Yesler Terrace (4:00),
organization of community council at Holly Park (18:45), welfare (21:00), co-op
preschool (25:00), housing units (28:00), Black Panthers (33:15), more on Holly
Park and other housing projects (36:00), community council (43:15), U.S.
Committee for a Democratic Spain (2:15), importance of oral histories of senior
citizens (14:30), more about work for Spain (22:00).
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| 3 | Tape 45 – TJ Vassar
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: school council work
(1:45), middle schools (3:00), anti-bussing initiative (9:00), desegregation as
an educational issue (27:00), experience growing up in the Central Area and his
involvement with the Civil Rights movement (32:45), black community groups
(44:45).
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| 3 | Tape 46 – Possibly Joel Pritchard or Paul Schell (Not
available online. Contact Special Collections for details.)
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: zoning for residential
developments (3:00), parks (7:00), Denny regrade development plan (35:30).
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| 3 | Tape 47 – Betsy St. Martins (Not available online. Contact
Special Collections for details)
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Operation Homestead
(2:45), low-income housing (4:15), homelessness in Seattle (8:15), the Compass
Center (10:30), DESC (18:00), Union Gospel Mission (19:00), difference between
homelessness in Seattle and Pasadena (25:45), ideas for running a homeless
shelter (27:00), First Avenue Service Center (43:00).
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| 3 | Tape 47 – Bear-John Tagalle (Not available online. Contact
Special Collections for details)
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Operation Homestead
(2:45), low-income housing (4:15), homelessness in Seattle (8:15), the Compass
Center (10:30), DESC (18:00), Union Gospel Mission (19:00), difference between
homelessness in Seattle and Pasadena (25:45), ideas for running a homeless
shelter (27:00), First Avenue Service Center (43:00).
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| 3 | Tape 48 – John Lileah
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: alcoholism (1:45), the
Compass Center (5:00), experience being homeless (6:15), violence with
homelessness (11:30), low-income housing at the Morrison Hotel and work at the
Compass Center (29:30).
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| 3 | Tape 48 – Bill Vivian
Topics of discussion include, on Side Two: Side Two: work for the
department of community development (3:45), housing assistance plan (4:30),
urban renewal projects (5:15), growing neighborhood movements (12:30),
low-income housing (19:30).
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| 3 | Tape 49 – James Washington (Not available online. Contact
Special Collections for details.)
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: an exhibition (1:30),
submitting artwork to a jury (13:00), sculpture (13:30), artistic community
(22:00).
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| 3 | Tape 50 – Eulah Kidd
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: work at the center
(00:15), meeting and sharing resources with other agencies (3:30), youth center
and youth programs (5:15), differences between needs of minority groups
(12:00), Counselor in Training program (17:45), homelessness and violence
increasing (25:45). Side Two: long waits for low-income housing (00:30).
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| 3 | Tape 50 – Herbert Pfiffner
Rev. Herbert Pfiffner began his career in human services in 1960.
He served 25 years as Executive Director/President of Hospitality House in
Minneapolis. In 1989 he came to Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission to assume the
role of executive director. In 2009, he announced his retirement from Union
Gospel after 21 years. Rev. Pfiffner is the author of two books,
More Than A Thousand Points
of Light (1992) and
A New Day
(2006).
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: work at the center
(00:15), meeting and sharing resources with other agencies (3:30), youth center
and youth programs (5:15), differences between needs of minority groups
(12:00), Counselor in Training program (17:45), homelessness and violence
increasing (25:45). Side Two: long waits for low-income housing (00:30).
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| 3 | Tape 51 – Valerie Ivanov
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: protests and politics
of the 1950s and 60s (4:45), senior action council (11:15), turnkey apartments
(29:45). Side Two: Central District Youth Club (3:45), work with civil rights
(11:45), anti-war movement (27:00)
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| 3 | Tape 51 – Nick Licata (Not available online. Contact
Special Collections for details.)
Nick Licata was a Seattle City Council Member from 1998 to 2016.
He lived in the PRAG House collective for 25 years and was president for eight
years of the Evergreen Land Trust, a collective property trust. Before entering
politics, Licata helped found the anti-discrimination organization, Coalition
Against Redlining in Seattle and testified before Congress on the Community
Reinvestment Act. While on the Seattle City Council, he chaired committees
dealing with parks, arts, police, fire, civil rights, and neighborhoods. He was
the sponsor/advocate of the city’s Paid Sick and Safe Leave ordinance, and
started the Poet Populist program, the first each year for a local poet to lead
public events, read in public schools and libraries.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: protests and politics
of the 1950s and 60s (4:45), senior action council (11:15), turnkey apartments
(29:45). Side Two: Central District Youth Club (3:45), work with civil rights
(11:45), anti-war movement (27:00)
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| 3 | Tape 52 – Steve Whetzel (Not available online. Contact
Special Collections for details)
Jonathan Whetzel served in the Washington State House of
Representatives from 1965 to 1970 and in the state Senate from 1971 to 1974. He
also has a brief term on the Seattle City Council in 1977 and was president of
the Municipal League of King County for three years (1978-1980). Whetzel had a
long private-sector career in Seattle, including senior-management positions at
Bullitt Co., King Broadcasting and Harbor Properties. He was a patron and fan
of Seattle's arts community, especially theater and opera. He passed away in
2002.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: anti-war movement
(1:00), anti-war student groups at univerisities (10:30), shift from growing up
in a conservative family (14:00), disintegration of capitalism (18:30).
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| 3 | Tape 52 – Possibly Steve Lee
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Seattle government as a
business clique (39:45), Seattle Planning Commission (42:30), state
representative (43:45).
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| 3 | Tape 52 – Possibly Kay Thode (Not available online.
Contact Special Collections for details.)
Kay Thode was a social worker and welfare policy analyst in
Seattle. She worked as Director of the Seattle Urban League's Health and
Welfare Department from 1968 to 1983. She subsequently worked as a planner for
the King County Health Planning Council, a subarea council of the Puget Sound
Health Systems Agency. She advocated for the rights of welfare recipients and
the poor, and testified frequently before local, state, and federal government
bodies.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Seattle government as a
business clique (39:45), Seattle Planning Commission (42:30), state
representative (43:45).
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| 3 | Tape 53 – Clifford Hooper
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: development of the
inner city (6:45), Jewish bigotry (13:00), civil rights movement (16:30), Urban
League and NAACP (19:15), black power movement (22:00). Side Two: Black
Cultural Center (23:45)
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| 3 | Tape 54 – Guela Gayton (Not available online. Contact
Special Collections for details)
Guela Gayton Johnson is the first African American librarian to
head a University of Washington departmental library. She is the oldest
grandchild of John T. (1866-1954) and Magnolia Gayton (1880-1954), black
pioneers who settled in Seattle in 1888. After receiving her Master of Library
Science degree from the University of Washington in 1969, she became the first
professional librarian to head the UW's School of Social Work library, a post
she held until her retirement in 1992. Johnson has served on the board of the
Black Heritage Society of Washington State and its collection committee. A
founding member of the Seattle Chapter of Links, Inc., she has been active for
more than 50 years in this national service organization of predominately
African American women.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: work as librarian
(2:45), changes in the black community in Seattle (5:00), subtle prejudice and
racism (8:45), Urban League (14:00), affirmative action (21:00), schools and
the PTA (33:45). Side Two: SOIC (8:00), poverty (12:15), black power (16:45).
Other individuals and organizations discussed include Edwin T. Pratt, Jerome
Page, Vivian Carver, Ronald Regan, Jack Tanner, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcom
X, Phillip Burton, Sid Gerber, the University of Washington, National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Christians for Racial
Equality, Youth Meeting (YM), and the Black Panthers.
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| 3 | Tape 55 – Buzz Anderson
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: early Seattle history,
including information about streetcars (00:15), development of Columbia City
(7:00), discussion about a group--possibly a historical society? (31:00), race
relations (43:30). On Side Two: black families in different neighborhoods
(00:45), Block Watch and Business Watch programs (7:15), urban renewal (7:45),
business relationships with large grocery chains (8:30), houses in the 1940s
and 1950s (13:45), crimefighting organizations (30:00), housing developments in
Bellevue (34:45).
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| 3 | Tape 56 – Michael Preston
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: graduation from
Garfield High School (00:15), change of viewpoint in the mid-1960s (1:00),
Martin Luther King, Jr. (7:00), civil disturbances (11:00), college education
(13:00), work at blue-collar jobs (17:15), graduate school (18:00), election to
the school board (23:00), lack of integration in schools (25:30), apartheid in
America (30:45), forced bussing (41:30), the SOS (44:00). Side Two: SOS and
segregation in schools (00:15).
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| 3 | Tape 57 – Walt Crowley (Not available online. Contact
Special Collections for details.)
Walt Crowley was an award-winning historian and the author of more
than a dozen books. Born in Detroit, Crawley moved to Seattle with his family
in 1961. He worked as an illustrator at Boeing before enrolling at the
University of Washington. There, he became active in the anti-war and
civil-rights movements. Crowley dropped out of college in 1967 to join the
staff of the Helix, an underground paper. Crowley worked in several city
positions, including deputy director of the Office of Policy and Planning. In
the late 1980s, he spent seven years as the liberal voice opposite conservative
John Carlson in biweekly "point-counterpoint" debates on KIRO-TV. A former
member of the Washington State Council on Historic Preservation and the City of
Seattle Landmarks Preservation Board, he co-founded and directed
HistoryLink.org, a free online encyclopedia of Washington State history. He
passed away in 2007.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: citizen participation
in the early 1970s (00:15), Environmental Protection Act (3:30), history of the
railroads in Seattle (7:45), labor movements (13:00), Boeing (14:00), street
railways (20:00), control of electricity (24:15), transit (35:30), Metro
(38:45). On Side Two: rail and mass transit (00:15), Forward Thrust plan
(9:00), planning commision (20:00), housing studies and plans for growth
(33:45). Other individuals and organizations discussed include Sam Smith,
Yesler, James (Jim) Ellis, Northern Pacific, Metro, Pacific Electric, and
General Motors.
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| 3 | Tape 57 – Paul Edger
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: citizen participation
in the early 1970s (00:15), Environmental Protection Act (3:30), history of the
railroads in Seattle (7:45), labor movements (13:00), Boeing (14:00), street
railways (20:00), control of electricity (24:15), transit (35:30), Metro
(38:45). On Side Two: rail and mass transit (00:15), Forward Thrust plan
(9:00), planning commision (20:00), housing studies and plans for growth
(33:45). Other individuals and organizations discussed include Sam Smith,
Yesler, James (Jim) Ellis, Northern Pacific, Metro, Pacific Electric, and
General Motors..
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| 4 | Tape 59 – Camden Hall
Camden Hall is a Seattle attorney. In 1965, he received his law
degree from the University of Washington School of Law, where he was president
of the Young Republicans Club. Hall served as a Judge Pro Tempore in the
Seattle Municipal Court (1971-1975) and in the King County Superior Court
(1988-1997). He was a member of the firm Foster, Pepper & Shefelman PLLC
from 1970-2002, after which he opened his own practice. Among other work, he
represented the Seattle School District in all of its early desegregation and
state funding litigation, and in vindicating the rights of Japanese American
citizens wrongfully imprisoned during World War II. Hall was 1957 Associated
Class President of Ballard High School and served as the Ballard High School
Foundation President from 1998-2001 and still serves on the Foundation’s Board
of Directors.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: desegregation (00:15),
need for change on city council in the 1960s (2:45), Forward Thrust (4:45),
destructiveness of partisanship (8:30), Check (13:00), city council reform
(22:00), "people problems (25:15), crime and inner-city problems (27:45),
decline of Pioneer Square and Pike Place (34:30). Side Two: criminal justice
plan (00:15), relationship with the police department (2:00), restructuring of
the planning function in Seattle (14:30), OPE (28:30), rail system (45:30),
lack of job creation in Seattle (46:30).
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| 4 | Tape 59 – Phillip Sherburne (Not available online. Contact
Special Collections for details.)
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: desegregation (00:15),
need for change on city council in the 1960s (2:45), Forward Thrust (4:45),
destructiveness of partisanship (8:30), Check (13:00), city council reform
(22:00), "people problems (25:15), crime and inner-city problems (27:45),
decline of Pioneer Square and Pike Place (34:30). Side Two: criminal justice
plan (00:15), relationship with the police department (2:00), restructuring of
the planning function in Seattle (14:30), OPE (28:30), rail system (45:30),
lack of job creation in Seattle (46:30).
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| 4 | Tape 60 – Bruce Chapman
Bruce Chapman graduated from Harvard in 1962. He became active in
politics through the Seattle Young Republicans and he was elected to the
Seattle City Council in 1971. In 1975, he was appointed Secretary of State for
Washington State. He was elected to that post that same year. He ran
unsuccessfully for Governor of Washington in 1980. Chapman was appointed
Director of the United States Census Bureau (1981-1983) by President Ronald
Reagan, he then served as Deputy Assistant to President Regan from 1983 to 1985
and simultaneously held the position of Director of White House Office of
Planning and Evaluation. In 1990, Chapman founded of the Discovery Institute, a
public policy center on national and international affairs. He served as its
director from its inception until 2011 and remains the Chairman of the
Board.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Seattle construction
came in waves (1:45), fight over Pike Place (7:45), urban renewal (9:15),
historic preservation (19:00), capitalists with social visions in the early
20th century (16:30), the Seattle spirit (22:00), retreat of the wealthy
(23:00), improvement of public transport and shopping districts (27:00), parks
department (29:15), piers (33:15), re-capturing of early Seattle (35:45),
environmental concern (41:45), bipartisanship (46:30). Side Two: education
(6:00), park system (18:30), work as secretary of state (23:30), Seattle
turning into an international city (35:30), major construction in the 1970s at
the airport and UW (39:00). Other topics, individuals, and organizations
discussed include Seattle City Council and the parks committee, Cam Hall,
Warren Magnuson, Henry Jackson, Jane Jacobs, Denny Ross, R. H. Thomson,
Brewster, Dave Town, James (Jim) Ellis, Dixie Ray, Joel Horn, John Miller, Doug
Raff, John Spath, Ned Skinner, Wesley C. Uhlman, Pike Place Market, and the
University of Washington.
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| 4 | Tape 60 – Sid Volinn
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Seattle construction
came in waves (1:45), fight over Pike Place (7:45), urban renewal (9:15),
historic preservation (19:00), capitalists with social visions in the early
20th century (16:30), the Seattle spirit (22:00), retreat of the wealthy
(23:00), improvement of public transport and shopping districts (27:00), parks
department (29:15), piers (33:15), re-capturing of early Seattle (35:45),
environmental concern (41:45), bipartisanship (46:30). Side Two: education
(6:00), park system (18:30), work as secretary of state (23:30), Seattle
turning into an international city (35:30), major construction in the 1970s at
the airport and UW (39:00). Other topics, individuals, and organizations
discussed include Seattle City Council and the parks committee, Cam Hall,
Warren Magnuson, Henry Jackson, Jane Jacobs, Denny Ross, R. H. Thomson,
Brewster, Dave Town, James (Jim) Ellis, Dixie Ray, Joel Horn, John Miller, Doug
Raff, John Spath, Ned Skinner, Wesley C. Uhlman, Pike Place Market, and the
University of Washington.
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| 4 | Tape 61 – Ed Wood
Ed Wood was the staff attorney in Mayor Wes Uhlman’s
administration.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: City Council (00:00),
Capitol Hill Community Council (2:30), riots (4:00), Black Panthers (5:30),
City Light (10:30), Central Area and affirmative action (15:00), community
planners and citizen meetings (17:30), Model Cities (20:00), Save the Market
(24:00), gay community (33:00), affirmative action and minorities in city
departments (39:00).
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| 4 | Tape 62 – David Brewster
David Brewster worked as a journalist, publisher and editor. He
also is the founder and former executive director of Town Hall, a Seattle
non-profit cultural center on First Hill. He grew up in New Jersey, was
educated at Yale, and came to Seattle in 1965 as an English professor at the
UW. Over his long career in Seattle journalism, he has worked at
Seattle Magazine,
The Seattle Times,
KING-TV, and the
Argus. He founded
Seattle Weekly in
1976 and served as editor and publisher until 1997. He also started the Best
Places, a guidebook series, which became Sasquatch Books. In 2007, he founded
the online Northwest newspaper,
Crosscut.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: housing marches and the
Seattle Urban League in the 1960s (1:30), disenchatment with City Hall (4:00),
City Council changes (7:00), City Light and Seattle Center master plan (8:00),
changes to West Seattle (16:00), Delridge community (18:30), Alki (25:00),
increasing diversity in West Seattle (28:00), Volunteer Transfer Student
experience (29:30), urban renewal as urban destruction (35:30), Model Cities
(38:30), Save the Market (41:00), bus transit system (43:30), downtown planning
and character (44:30). Side Two: Seattle Center (00:00), homelessness (2:30),
welfare (8:30), former cultural hub at UW (14:30), population growth on the
East Side (20:30), transit scheme (24:30), Westlake Mall and Seattle Center
(26:30), city of innovations (36:00). The time period discussed ranges from
1935-1992.
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| 4 | Tape 62 – Tom Weeks
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: housing marches and the
Seattle Urban League in the 1960s (1:30), disenchatment with City Hall (4:00),
City Council changes (7:00), City Light and Seattle Center master plan (8:00),
changes to West Seattle (16:00), Delridge community (18:30), Alki (25:00),
increasing diversity in West Seattle (28:00), Volunteer Transfer Student
experience (29:30), urban renewal as urban destruction (35:30), Model Cities
(38:30), Save the Market (41:00), bus transit system (43:30), downtown planning
and character (44:30). Side Two: Seattle Center (00:00), homelessness (2:30),
welfare (8:30), former cultural hub at UW (14:30), population growth on the
East Side (20:30), transit scheme (24:30), Westlake Mall and Seattle Center
(26:30), city of innovations (36:00). The time period discussed ranges from
1935-1992
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| 4 | Tape 63 – Roy Morse (Not available online. Contact Special Collections for details) | |
| 4 | Tape 64 – Joan Clough
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: homelessness and street
missions (4:00), Bethlehem walk (11:30), Catholic Community Services and St.
Martin de Porres (16:30), private and public funding (26:00), Healthcare for
the Homeless (29:00). Side Two: Westlake (00:00).
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| 4 | Tape 65 – Rick Stockstad
Rick Stockstad was the director of the Millionair Club, an
organization that provides jobs and other essential support services to
individuals who are homeless or unemployed in Seattle and King County.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Director of
Administration for Model Cities (00:00), United Way (1:30), gentrification of
Pioneer Square (2:30), Seattle Hotel and cheap services (5:30), Morrison Hotel
(17:00), juvenile offenders law (20:00), community mental health plans (23:30),
walk-in clinics (27:30), St. Martin de Porres (30:30), Lutheran Compass Center
(31:00), Director of Planning at United Way (36:00), conversion of renovated
hotels to apartments (38:30), First Avenue Service Center (39:30), different
types of courts (44:00). Side Two: women volunteerism (00:30), Council of
Planning Affiliates and Office of Economic Activity (2:30), United Way (5:00),
crisis intervention program (26:30), City Light business transaction (27:30),
Millionaire Club (29:00), changing demographics (30:30), 1970 Boeing layoffs
(36:00), Northwest Harvest (38:30).
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| 4 | Tape 65 – Murray Meld
Murray Meld is a social worker, activist, community organizer, and
writer. Born in Latvia in 1920, Meld immigrated to the United States with his
parents in 1922. After serving in the Army in World War II, he graduated from
City College with a degree in Sociology. He left New York and arrived in
Seattle in 1961 as the director of planning for United Good Neighbors in
Seattle. He left Seattle to assume the role of Dean of the School of Social
Service at St. Louis University. After retiring in 1984, Meld and his wife,
Sophie (also a social worker) returned to Seattle. Meld is active in the
Seattle Yiddish Group.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Director of
Administration for Model Cities (00:00), United Way (1:30), gentrification of
Pioneer Square (2:30), Seattle Hotel and cheap services (5:30), Morrison Hotel
(17:00), juvenile offenders law (20:00), community mental health plans (23:30),
walk-in clinics (27:30), St. Martin de Porres (30:30), Lutheran Compass Center
(31:00), Director of Planning at United Way (36:00), conversion of renovated
hotels to apartments (38:30), First Avenue Service Center (39:30), different
types of courts (44:00). Side Two: women volunteerism (00:30), Council of
Planning Affiliates and Office of Economic Activity (2:30), United Way (5:00),
crisis intervention program (26:30), City Light business transaction (27:30),
Millionaire Club (29:00), changing demographics (30:30), 1970 Boeing layoffs
(36:00), Northwest Harvest (38:30).
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| 4 | Tape 66 – Angus (Not available online. Contact Special
Collections for details)
Topics of discussion include, on Side Two: Senior Housing, Pike
Place Ministry, and Seattle Housing (00:00), Streetwise and Alcoholics
Anonymous (1:00), Millionaire's Club (1:30), alcoholism (7:00).
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| 4 | Tape 66 – John Fox
John Fox is a longtime housing activist and advocate for Seattle’s
low-income and homeless population. After earning a bachelor's degree in
political science at the University of Washington, Fox found employment through
the Comprehensive Employment Training Act, a federal law enacted in 1973 to
train workers and provide them with jobs in public service through grant
monies. In 1977, he founded the Seattle Displacement Coalition, a low-income
housing organization and task force. He remains the Coalition coordinator and
organizes around low-income housing and gentrification issues in the
Seattle/King County area. He was also a member of the Eastlake Community
Council.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Seattle Displacement
Coalition and gentrification of Capitol Hill (2:00), Downtown growth at the
expense of neighborhoods (3:00), Downtown Neighborhood Alliance (5:00),
downtown land use plan and zoning codes (5:30), Convention Center and 8th and
Pike (11:30), freeway through inner-city neighborhoods (14:30), Ozark Fire Code
(15:00), urban renewal (15:30), Cascade Neighborhood (22:30), Demolition
Control Law (26:30), rent control initiative (29:30), trickle down theory
supports majority (34:30), urban village concept (36:00), single-family
rezoning (36:30). Other individuals and organizations discussed include
Virginia Galley, Jeanette Williams, Sam Smith, Wesley C. Uhlman, and
Boeing.
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| 4 | Tape 67 – Milton Carr
Interivewee affiliated with United Way. Topics of discussion
include, on Side One: Skid Road Community Council (00:30), housing and
alcoholism problems in the Skid Road area (1:00), United Way and lack of direct
services for alcoholics downtown (4:00), Downtown Human Services Council
(5:00), Morrison Hotel (13:30), Downtown Emergency Services Center (15:00),
religious factors in missions (17:30), Lutheran Compass Center (22:30), Bread
of Life mission tradition (26:30). Side Two: Federal Housing Administration
(2:30), public housing for families and the elderly (3:30), state welfare
programs (10:00), visiting nurse service (15:30).
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| 4 | Tape 68 – David Bloom
David Bloom is an American Baptist minister with more than thirty
years of ecumenical leadership experience in Seattle on social justice issues.
Bloom directed the urban ministry of the Church Council of Greater Seattle
(1978-1997). He is a founder of several local organizations that provide
shelter, build housing, and organize for social change, including the Downtown
Emergency Service Center, Common Ground, and the Seattle Displacement
Coalition. Since leaving the Church Council he has been engaged in a variety of
organizing and advocacy activities.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: transitional housing
(00:30), Seattle Commons (2:00), homelessness problem (2:30), Denny regrade
(5:00), short-term emergency housing, transitional housing, permanent housing,
and emergency housing provider (10:00), social worker client load (17:00),
United Way (18:30). Side Two: seminary work and interracial dialogue following
the Watts riots (00:30), church council (3:00), Central Seattle Community
Council Federation (4:30), Seattle Coalition on Redlining (5:30), emergence of
housing issues (11:00), low-income housing task force (12:00), Seattle
Displacement Coalition (13:30), Tenant Union (17:00), International District
Housing Alliance (19:30), Seattle Housing Resources Group (21:00), housing
ordinances and downtown land use plan (28:00), Senior Housing Bond Issue
(29:00), Plymouth Housing Group (36:30), housing for mentally ill (39:30),
Common Ground and Downtown Emergency Service Center (44:00). Other individuals
and organizations discussed include Paul Schell, Charles Royer, John Fox,
Ronald Regan, University Baptist Church, Common Ground, and the YMCA. The time
period discussed ranges from 1970-1995.
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| 4 | Tape 68 – Robert Rench (Not available online. Contact
Special Collections for details)
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: transitional housing
(00:30), Seattle Commons (2:00), homelessness problem (2:30), Denny regrade
(5:00), short-term emergency housing, transitional housing, permanent housing,
and emergency housing provider (10:00), social worker client load (17:00),
United Way (18:30). Side Two: seminary work and interracial dialogue following
the Watts riots (00:30), church council (3:00), Central Seattle Community
Council Federation (4:30), Seattle Coalition on Redlining (5:30), emergence of
housing issues (11:00), low-income housing task force (12:00), Seattle
Displacement Coalition (13:30), Tenant Union (17:00), International District
Housing Alliance (19:30), Seattle Housing Resources Group (21:00), housing
ordinances and downtown land use plan (28:00), Senior Housing Bond Issue
(29:00), Plymouth Housing Group (36:30), housing for mentally ill (39:30),
Common Ground and Downtown Emergency Service Center (44:00). Other individuals
and organizations discussed include Paul Schell, Charles Royer, John Fox,
Ronald Regan, University Baptist Church, Common Ground, and the YMCA. The time
period discussed ranges from 1970-1995.
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| 4 | Tape 69 – Eulah Kidd
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: involvement with
homelessness and youth and drug organization (00:00), boarding houses (2:30),
boarding homes and hotels (4:30), Model Cities and Urban Renewal (10:00), need
for more affordable housing and inner-city and land use codes (13:00), Downtown
Emergency Service Center (29:00), shelters (30:00), permanent housing (31:00),
transistional housing (32:30), Public Works programs (36:00). Side Two: more
homeless and more families migrating to Washington (1:00), declining jobs and
low-cost housing (2:30), temporary services good but insufficient and unstable
(14:30), temporary and permanent job lists (17:00), churches as support systems
(31:30).
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| 4 | Tape 69 – Joe McDonald
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: involvement with
homelessness and youth and drug organization (00:00), boarding houses (2:30),
boarding homes and hotels (4:30), Model Cities and Urban Renewal (10:00), need
for more affordable housing and inner-city and land use codes (13:00), Downtown
Emergency Service Center (29:00), shelters (30:00), permanent housing (31:00),
transistional housing (32:30), Public Works programs (36:00). Side Two: more
homeless and more families migrating to Washington (1:00), declining jobs and
low-cost housing (2:30), temporary services good but insufficient and unstable
(14:30), temporary and permanent job lists (17:00), churches as support systems
(31:30).
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| 4 | Tape 70 – Dick Carbary
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: stopping U.S.
intervention in Nicaragua (1:00), coalition against war in Iraq (3:30), gay
rights and health issues (11:30), Contra Aid Group (16:00), American Peace
Committe (21:00), neighborhood organizing (32:00), community councils (32:30).
Side Two: civil war awareness (2:30), Council for American-Soviet friendship
(4:00), national labor unions and teamsters (13:00), Hooverville and the
Depression (25:30). The time period discussed ranges from 1935-1992.
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| 4 | Tape 70 – Bob Reed
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: stopping U.S.
intervention in Nicaragua (1:00), coalition against war in Iraq (3:30), gay
rights and health issues (11:30), Contra Aid Group (16:00), American Peace
Committe (21:00), neighborhood organizing (32:00), community councils (32:30).
Side Two: civil war awareness (2:30), Council for American-Soviet friendship
(4:00), national labor unions and teamsters (13:00), Hooverville and the
Depression (25:30). The time period discussed ranges from 1935-1992.
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| 4 | Tape 71 – Ken Cole
Interviewee is a Seattle social worker who speaks about
experiences working with homeless and related issues.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: work with the homeless
Downtown (1:00), First Avenue Service Center (2:30), Downtown Emergency
Services Center (3:30), Salvation Army, Compass Center, and Union Gospel
(10:30), overflow and overcrowding problems (11:30), spending on homelessness
(17:00), Seattle Food Committee (24:30), Survival Services Coalition (25:30),
shelters and band-aids (39:00), St. Martin DePorres (44:00). Side Two: city vs.
county-wide politics (00:30), working with coalitions and other agencies
(8:00), United Way (25:00). Other individuals and organizations discussed
include Joe Mennonite, Tom Beyer, Mike McGiddigan, Norm Rice, Fred Chopp,
Charlie Royer, Homeless Coalition, Seattle Mental Health Institute, Social Work
Mafia, Church Council of Greater Seattle, Salvation Army, and the Public Safety
Building.
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| 4 | Tape 71 – Rick Stockstad
Rick Stockstad was the director of the Millionair Club, an
organization that provides jobs and other essential support services to
individuals who are homeless or unemployed in Seattle and King County.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: work with the homeless
Downtown (1:00), First Avenue Service Center (2:30), Downtown Emergency
Services Center (3:30), Salvation Army, Compass Center, and Union Gospel
(10:30), overflow and overcrowding problems (11:30), spending on homelessness
(17:00), Seattle Food Committee (24:30), Survival Services Coalition (25:30),
shelters and band-aids (39:00), St. Martin DePorres (44:00). Side Two: city vs.
county-wide politics (00:30), working with coalitions and other agencies
(8:00), United Way (25:00). Other individuals and organizations discussed
include Joe Mennonite, Tom Beyer, Mike McGiddigan, Norm Rice, Fred Chopp,
Charlie Royer, Homeless Coalition, Seattle Mental Health Institute, Social Work
Mafia, Church Council of Greater Seattle, Salvation Army, and the Public Safety
Building.
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| 4 | Tape 72 – Capitol Hill
Gary Greaves describes buildings on a walk along Broadway on
Capitol Hill. Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Seattle Central
Community College (00:30), First Christian Church (1:30), Bonny Watson funeral
home (4:30), Western Washington University Service Center (6:30), apartment
building and businesses (7:30), Dick's Drive-In (11:30), Broadway Arcade
(12:30), banks and other businesses (16:30), Seattle Housing Authority (46:00).
Side Two: Congregational Church (00:30), Reservoir Park (11:30).
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| 4 | Tape 73 – Richard Haag
Richard Haag is an internationally recognized Seattle-based
landscape architect. Haag studied at Harvard University, where he received his
Master's in Landscape Architecture in 1952. He then received a Fulbright
Fellowship that allowed him to live in Japan from 1953 to 1955. Haag’s early
Seattle projects included the 1962 World’s Fair site, for which he was
instrumental in redesigning the center's layout after the fair. After the fair,
Haag was selected as the Seattle Civic Center planner (1962-1964 and 1978).
Haag is Founder and Professor Emeritus of the Department of Landscape
Architecture at the University of Washington. His notable works include Gas
Works Park and the Bloedel Reserve.
Topics of discussion incude, on Side One: Westlake Project
(00:00), transportation plans and freeways (4:00), Mercer corridor and South
Lake Union (8:00), long-range transportation problems (10:30), Initiative-601,
I-602 (12:00), OPP (14:00), Growth Management Act (16:30), Urban Villages
(18:00), prototype of modern Seattle highrises (33:00), bus tunnel (37:30),
overbuilt office space (38:30), Denny regrade (42:00), Seattle Commons (45:00).
Other individuals and organizations discussed include Hans Thompson, Fred
Bassetti, Ralph Anderson, Victor Steinbrook, John Hinterburger, and Forward
Thrust.
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| 4 | Tape 73 – Jim Parsons
Topics of discussion incude, on Side One: Westlake Project
(00:00), transportation plans and freeways (4:00), Mercer corridor and South
Lake Union (8:00), long-range transportation problems (10:30), Initiative-601,
I-602 (12:00), OPP (14:00), Growth Management Act (16:30), Urban Villages
(18:00), prototype of modern Seattle highrises (33:00), bus tunnel (37:30),
overbuilt office space (38:30), Denny regrade (42:00), Seattle Commons (45:00).
Other individuals and organizations discussed include Hans Thompson, Fred
Bassetti, Ralph Anderson, Victor Steinbrook, John Hinterburger, and Forward
Thrust.
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| 4 | Tape 74 – Valerie Ivanov
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: exposure to politics
(4:00), prevailing attitude of commercial center as the soul of the city
(7:30), city council campaign (8:30), transit system and distribution of jobs
and housing (9:30), social evolution and civil rights revolution (15:00),
segregationism (18:00), Central Area and Black Panthers (21:30), electoral
reform issues (27:30), subsidized housing (38:00), insufficient transportation
(39:00). Side Two: Great Society Programs and civil rights movement (00:00),
assimilation and the school system (4:00), escalating cost of living and
property valuation (5:00), Queen Anne changed after Seattle Center (8:30),
rising property values (13:30), Downtown, Yesler, Pioneer Square, and Central
Area (19:30), increased bus fare (22:00), Northgate construction (26:30),
Central Area (30:00).
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| 4 | Tape 74 – Dick Nelson (Not available online. Contact
Special Collections for details)
Dick Nelson is a former Washington State legislator.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: exposure to politics
(4:00), prevailing attitude of commercial center as the soul of the city
(7:30), city council campaign (8:30), transit system and distribution of jobs
and housing (9:30), social evolution and civil rights revolution (15:00),
segregationism (18:00), Central Area and Black Panthers (21:30), electoral
reform issues (27:30), subsidized housing (38:00), insufficient transportation
(39:00). Side Two: Great Society Programs and civil rights movement (00:00),
assimilation and the school system (4:00), escalating cost of living and
property valuation (5:00), Queen Anne changed after Seattle Center (8:30),
rising property values (13:30), Downtown, Yesler, Pioneer Square, and Central
Area (19:30), increased bus fare (22:00), Northgate construction (26:30),
Central Area (30:00).
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| 4 | Tape 75 – Paul Dorpat
Paul Dorpat is a Seattle historian and acclaimed photographer. In
1967, he founded and edited the
Helix, the first
underground newspaper in Seattle. Since 1982 his “Seattle Now and Then”
columns, juxtaposing and interpreting historic and contemporary photographs of
Seattle, have appeared weekly in
Pacific Northwest,
the magazine of the Seattle Times. Dorpat has published thirteen books,
produced films and video, curated exhibits and lectured widely on the subject
of regional history.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: early Seattle history
(00:30), selling of offshore land (18:30), Seattle Light Controversy and Puget
Power (19:30), Denny regrade (23:30), the Commons and Forward Thrust (29:30),
parks and open space issues (30:30), Woodland Park Zoo (31:00), The Commons
(31:30), South Lake Union project dropped (32:30), high-density zoning (36:00),
redevelopment is coming in South Lake Union (44:30), Downtown office and retail
economy (45:00). Side Two: community redevelopment financing (00:00), citizen
involvement in Seattle (4:00), low-income housing and public bond issues
(10:30). Other individuals and organizations discussed include Stetson Post
Lumber Mill, Seattle Railroad, and Nothern Pacific Railroad.
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| 4 | Tape 75 – Gerry Johnson
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: early Seattle history
(00:30), selling of offshore land (18:30), Seattle Light Controversy and Puget
Power (19:30), Denny regrade (23:30), the Commons and Forward Thrust (29:30),
parks and open space issues (30:30), Woodland Park Zoo (31:00), The Commons
(31:30), South Lake Union project dropped (32:30), high-density zoning (36:00),
redevelopment is coming in South Lake Union (44:30), Downtown office and retail
economy (45:00). Side Two: community redevelopment financing (00:00), citizen
involvement in Seattle (4:00), low-income housing and public bond issues
(10:30). Other individuals and organizations discussed include Stetson Post
Lumber Mill, Seattle Railroad, and Nothern Pacific Railroad.
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| 4 | Tape 76 –Walt Straley
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: work with AT&T
(1:30), work as president of Century 21 (16:30), leadership came in waves
(35:00), still racism in Seattle (40:30). Side Two: future of the city (00:15),
re-shaping fair grounds into Seattle Center (7:45), changes with the school
districts (12:30), women in leadership positions (18:30), Forward Thrust and
other local initiatives (22:30), lack of civil leadership (34:30).
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| 5 | Tape 77 – Elsie Crossman
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: challenges of building
over a tunnel (3:30), downtown zoning laws (7:00), Department of Community
Development (12:30), Office of Policy Planning (17:00), Forward Thrust (44:45).
Side Two: Land Use Department (00:15).
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| 5 | Tape 77 – Jim Parsons
Topics of discussion include, on Side Two: planning and OPP
(9:15), Olmstead Park plan (19:30), transit, clean-up of Lake Washington, and
Forward Thrust (20:00), South Lake Union Commons (21:00), Pike Place Market
(22:00), over-building is part of the problem (25:15), regrade and the Commons
(28:00), city has never played a major role in development (35:30), transit and
trolley lines (38:45).
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| 5 | Tape 78 – Woody Barnett
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Protestant-Catholic
cooperation (1:15), Hungarian refugees (4:30). On Side Two: founder of School
of Public Affairs at UW (1:15), childhood in Magnolia (6:00), summer homes
along Lake Washington (9:00), Denny Regrade (10:45), streetcars (14:00),
process leading to the World's Fair (20:45), zoning isn't effective (22:45),
Westlake (25:45), Farm Lands Initiative (33:00), Seattle Public Library
(39:45).
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| 5 | Tape 78 – Brewster Denny
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Protestant-Catholic
cooperation (1:15), Hungarian refugees (4:30). On Side Two: founder of School
of Public Affairs at UW (1:15), childhood in Magnolia (6:00), summer homes
along Lake Washington (9:00), Denny Regrade (10:45), streetcars (14:00),
process leading to the World's Fair (20:45), zoning isn't effective (22:45),
Westlake (25:45), Farm Lands Initiative (33:00), Seattle Public Library
(39:45).
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| 5 | Tape 79 – Woody Barnett
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: presentation to mayor's
office (1:00), OMB (14:00), focus of neighborhood political activity changed
(31:00). Side Two: Quakers and the American Friends Service Committee (00:15),
Japanese evacuation (1:00), discrimination along the west coast (4:30), Fair
Employment Act (7:30), Japanese concentration camps (43:00).
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| 5 | Tape 79 – Woody Robert Wilkinson
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: presentation to mayor's
office (1:00), OMB (14:00), focus of neighborhood political activity changed
(31:00). Side Two: Quakers and the American Friends Service Committee (00:15),
Japanese evacuation (1:00), discrimination along the west coast (4:30), Fair
Employment Act (7:30), Japanese concentration camps (43:00).
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| 5 | Tape 80 – Al Elliot
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: authority of running
the city shifted into the mayor's office and away from city council (3:00),
changes in city planning and administration (6:00), public transportation
(16:15), freeways were problems (17:00), sexism and racism (27:00), parks
department (30:00), race relations and black rage (37:00), city hall and other
city buildings (44:30). Side Two: Seattle infrastructure is old and needs to be
maintained (00:45), Central Area and urban renewal (5:00), Pike Place Market
(8:00), preservation of Pioneer Square (12:30), Denny regrade and the Commons
(29:00).
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| 5 | Tape 81 – Woody Wilkinson
Woody Wilkinson played many roles in local government. His career
began in 1965, when he accepted a position with Mayor Braman’s Office as a
staff assistant. He quickly became the Lead Budget Analyst and designed a new
city budget. Then he became Department of Community Development Director. In
1971, Mayor Wes Uhlman created the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to
establish a separate professional organization to allocate and oversee the
management of City resources and appointed Wilkinson (at age 29) as the first
director. Uhlman also organized a new Office of Policy Planning (OPP) under
Wilkinson to consolidate his authority. After Uhlman left office he joined the
Seattle School District and became Executive Director/Assistant Superintendent
(1979-1986). After several years in a public consulting practice, Wilkinson
returned to city government and in 1994 became Seattle Parks and Recreation
Division Director, a position he held until he retired in July 2006.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: early life history
(00:15), council committees and the shape of city government (11:00), Red Scare
(17:45), housing code and zoning (18:30), riots and demonstrations (29:00),
payment for garbage service and other utilities (39:45). Side Two: transit
(3:30), Model Cities (4:15), city budget system (10:45), planning department
and neighborhood planning strategy (16:00), Federal Technical Assistance Teams
(31:00), federal programs (41:30).
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| 5 | Tape 82 – Brewster Denny
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: need for water transit
and Forward Thrust (1:00), zoning (5:00), development of city planning
department (10:00), Seattle as a strong mayor city (27:00), city needed to hire
minorities (29:00), Apartment House Owners Association (37:00), corrupt city
government (39:00), memories of Wing Luke (43:00). Side Two: Check recruited
and encouraged young people to run for public office (00:15), Seattle Commons
(13:00), Urban Village and low-cost housing (15:00), Central Area (21:45),
Rainier Valley (22:30), arts organizations (28:45).
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| 5 | Tape 83 – Ted Bower
Ted Bower was one of a handful of graduates from Taliesin, Frank
Lloyd Wright’s architecture school, who practiced in Washington in the 1950’s
and 1960’s. He came to the Northwest in 1954 and worked briefly for the
architectural firm of Durham, Anderson & Freed; and Fred Bassetti (1955)
before opening his own private practice in Seattle. His notable projects
include the Pearce Apartments (2221 NE 46th Street) in Seattle, a 1963 Seattle
AIA honor award winner, and an addition to Western Washington University's
physical plant (1971). In 1962, he collaborated with Seattle architect Wendell
Lovett on the pedestrian walkway shelters for the Century 21 Exposition. He
passed away in 2007.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: housing project on
Yesler Way (4:30), Model Cities (7:00), R.H. Thompson freeway (11:00), urban
renewal (15:45), Seattle Housing Authority (19:30), Seattle architecture
(23:15), city planning (28:00). Side Two: lack of city planning and North
Seattle (00:15), Model Cities (5:00), police brutality and community activism
(7:00), voter registration effort (18:00), demographic changes in Seattle
(23:00).
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Topics of discussion include, on Side One: housing project on
Yesler Way (4:30), Model Cities (7:00), R.H. Thompson freeway (11:00), urban
renewal (15:45), Seattle Housing Authority (19:30), Seattle architecture
(23:15), city planning (28:00). Side Two: lack of city planning and North
Seattle (00:15), Model Cities (5:00), police brutality and community activism
(7:00), voter registration effort (18:00), demographic changes in Seattle
(23:00).
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| 5 | Tape 85 – Ken McDonald (Not available online. Contact
Special Collections for details)
Ken MacDonald was a Seattle attorney known for championing civil
rights and social issues. In 1952, he helped force the city to allow the
African-American singer and activist Paul Robeson to appear at Civic
Auditorium. MacDonald also fought the witch-hunters of the Canwell Committee, a
Communist-pursuing panel of the Washington Legislature, and later represented
witnesses called to testify before the U.S. House Un-American Activities
Committee. By the late 1950s he was head of the Washington State Board Against
Discrimination. MacDonald continued to follow his social conscience for the
rest of his career at the law office of MacDonald, Hoague & Bayles, a firm
that he co-founded in 1952. He passed away in 2012.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Choose and Effective
City Council (00:30), experience in city government (8:30), low-income housing
(9:15), Central Point housing facility (15:30), city politics and city
government (18:00), federal housing programs (19:30), getting out of the Boeing
slump (33:00), Economic Development Council (33:30). On Side Two: city council
in the 1960s (3:00), Pioneer Square restoration and remodeling (6:00), early
Seattle history (12:00), no city planning (34:00), civil rights movement
(37:00), public housing (43:30).
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| 5 | Tape 85 – Bill Stafford
Bill Stafford worked in Seattle city government from 1971 through
1990 in many capacities, including as deputy mayor under Charles Royer and
director of inter-governmental affairs for mayors Wes Uhlman, Charles Royer and
Norm Rice. He was awarded the 2009 World Citizen Award from the World Affairs
Council for his outstanding service as an international ambassador. Stafford
created the Trade Development Alliance of Greater Seattle, serving as its
president until he retired in 2011. Stafford is a senior advisor at Nyhus
Communications.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Choose and Effective
City Council (00:30), experience in city government (8:30), low-income housing
(9:15), Central Point housing facility (15:30), city politics and city
government (18:00), federal housing programs (19:30), getting out of the Boeing
slump (33:00), Economic Development Council (33:30). On Side Two: city council
in the 1960s (3:00), Pioneer Square restoration and remodeling (6:00), early
Seattle history (12:00), no city planning (34:00), civil rights movement
(37:00), public housing (43:30).
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| 5 | Tape 86 – Tim Hill (Not available online. Contact Special
Collections for details)
Tim Hill is a lawyer and politician. He has held numerous public
offices in Washington including two terms as King County Executive (1986-1994).
He graduated from the University of Washington School of Law in 1963.
Afterwards he became a deputy prosecutor in the office of King County
Prosecutor Charles O. Carroll. His political career began in 1966, when he won
a seat in the state House of Representatives in his district, the 44th. He was
elected to three terms on the Seattle City Council (1968-1979). During this
time he also served on Choose an Effective City Council (CHECC), a bipartisan
group of young professionals seeking to reform Seattle city government. Hill
was the Seattle city comptroller (1979-1985).
Topics discussed include, on Side One: Seattle infrastructure in
the 1950s (00:15), changes in the city council in the 1960s (2:00),
neighborhood politics and demographics (10:00), Model Cities program (14:30),
experience on City Council (19:15), Pomeroy, Devin, and Clinton campaigns
(26:15). Side Two: internment (8:30), emmigration to Seattle during World War
II (9:15), race relations (11:30), changing demographics in Seattle (14:30),
Downtown Seattle architecture (18:00), real estate and planning in Pioneer
Square (25:00), Pike Place Market (29:45), Seattle Commons and Mountain to
Sound Greenway (32:00), Forward Thrust campaign (32:30).
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| 5 | Tape 86 – George Pritchard
Topics discussed include, on Side One: Seattle infrastructure in
the 1950s (00:15), changes in the city council in the 1960s (2:00),
neighborhood politics and demographics (10:00), Model Cities program (14:30),
experience on City Council (19:15), Pomeroy, Devin, and Clinton campaigns
(26:15). Side Two: internment (8:30), emmigration to Seattle during World War
II (9:15), race relations (11:30), changing demographics in Seattle (14:30),
Downtown Seattle architecture (18:00), real estate and planning in Pioneer
Square (25:00), Pike Place Market (29:45), Seattle Commons and Mountain to
Sound Greenway (32:00), Forward Thrust campaign (32:30).
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| 5 | Tape 87 – Cheryl Chow
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: racism in Seattle
(17:30), relationship between downtown and the Asian community (31:00),
inter-racial marriages among Asians pulled community together (40:00). On Side
Two: name of International District (1:45).
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| 5 | Tape 87 – Lois and Phil Hayasaka
Seattle native Phil Hayasaka spent WWII in an internment camp. He
served as President of the Seattle Japanese American Citizens League, President
of the Jackson Street Community Council, and became the first Director of the
Seattle Human Rights Commission. Lois Hayasaka was a researcher-writer who
worked for the State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: homelessness and the
Morrison (10:00), Seattle Commons (11:16). On Side Two: Japanese internment
(7:45), Japanese during the civil rights movement (24:00), different
neighborhoods combined into International District (36:00), Wing Luke (43:45),
Asians on city council (46:30). Other topics, individuals, and organizations
discussed include the Hayasaka's work within the International District, the
African American civil rights community, housing rights, media coverage and
voter education, marches and demonstrations, diffusing tensions with the
police, a cross burned on the Hayasaka's front yard, societal frustrations and
racism, the Human Rights Commission and discrimination within the agency,
neighborhood councils, the SeaTac Takeover, relationships with Seattle mayors,
Clinton, Gordon, Bob Lavoie, John Hirsh Adams, Ray Baker, Hal Westberg, Don
Hoss, Rev. Sam McKinney, Johnny Allen, Sean Walker, Wing Luke, Kenneth Coleman,
John Eickelberg, Robert Reese, Rev. D. Harvey, Elton Clark, Roy Skagen, Noreen
Skagen, Frank Raymon, Buzz Cook, Tyree Scott, James (Dorm) Braman, Merrill Ash,
Jackson Street Community Council, Open Housing, Japanese Apartment House Owners
Association, Seattle City Council, Fair Housing Committee, US Commission on
Human Rights, United Construction Workers Association (UCWA), Office of
Management and Budget (OMB), and Black Muslims. The time period discussed
ranges from 1940-1992.
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| 5 | Tape 88 – Tim Hill (Not available online. Contact Special
Collections for details)
Tim Hill is a lawyer and politician. He has held numerous public
offices in Washington including two terms as King County Executive (1986-1994).
He graduated from the University of Washington School of Law in 1963.
Afterwards he became a deputy prosecutor in the office of King County
Prosecutor Charles O. Carroll. His political career began in 1966, when he won
a seat in the state House of Representatives in his district, the 44th. He was
elected to three terms on the Seattle City Council (1968-1979). During this
time he also served on Choose an Effective City Council (CHECC), a bipartisan
group of young professionals seeking to reform Seattle city government. Hill
was the Seattle city comptroller (1979-1985).
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: experience in state
government (00:30), candidacy for city council (2:45), Pike Place Market
(15:00).
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| 5 | Tape 88 – Fred Yee
Fred Yee is a pioneer in creating culturally-appropriate services
for the Asian and Pacific Islander community. He was born in Hong Kong and came
to Seattle in 1969. Yee is a co-founder of Chinese Information & Service
Center, and Children’s Alliance. He retired from U.S. government in 2011 after
29 years, serving in many capacities including the Office of Minority Health
Regional Consultant (Pacific Northwest/Alaska), U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services. He was awarded the International Community Health Services
“Bamboo Award for Health” in 2012. Yee is the director of Kin On, an elderly
health care center.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Asian immigration
(28:00), history of Chinatown and the International District (37:15), college
and graduate school experience (41:30). Side Two: career with Health Education
and Welfare (4:00), work for government agencies (8:00), changes in society
toward Chinese and other Asians (12:00), increased pride among immigrants from
Pacific nations (22:00), growing trust and respect between Asian cultures
(27:00).
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| 5 | Tape 89 – Joel Pritchard
Joel Pritchard was a Washington state politician. He was elected
to the Washington State House of Representatives from the 36th district
(1958-1966) and then as State Senator (1966-1970). He was a noted supporter of
civil rights, environmental legislation, anti-gambling measures, and other
reforms. In 1972, Pritchard was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives,
serving the 1st Congressional District for 12 years. In 1988, he was elected
Lieutenant Governor of Washington and was reelected in 1992. After the end of
his second term as Lieutenant Governor, Pritchard retired and became an active
board member of TVW (Washington State's public affairs network). He passed away
in 1997.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: city planning and
transit (00:00), the Commons (5:00)Sandpoint project (12:30), transit (15:00),
city government (21:00). Side Two: Boeing and shipyards as employers (3:30),
city planning and the city planning commission (5:00), Allied Arts (16:00),
preservation of Pioneer Square (18:00), housing (20:00), schools and education
(23:00), Pike Place and Forward Thrust (31:00), creation of a city planning
office (31:15), importance and restoration of Pike Place Market (34:00),
affordable housing and gentrification (38:30).
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| 5 | Tape 89 – Paul Schell
Paul Schell is a politician, lawyer and urban planner. In 1973,
Mayor Norm Rice appointed Schell to serve as Director of the Seattle Department
of Community Development (DCD). Having supported the 1971 campaign to save the
Pike Place Market from redevelopment, during his term with DCD he oversaw the
Market's preservation and rebuilding. After a few years of working in real
estate development, Schell won public office as a Port of Seattle commissioner
in 1989, becoming commission president in 1995. He was also dean of
the University of Washington College of Architecture and Urban Planning (now
College of Built Environments) from 1992 to 1995. Schell was elected as the
50th mayor of Seattle in 1998.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: city planning and
transit (00:00), the Commons (5:00)Sandpoint project (12:30), transit (15:00),
city government (21:00). Side Two: Boeing and shipyards as employers (3:30),
city planning and the city planning commission (5:00), Allied Arts (16:00),
preservation of Pioneer Square (18:00), housing (20:00), schools and education
(23:00), Pike Place and Forward Thrust (31:00), creation of a city planning
office (31:15), importance and restoration of Pike Place Market (34:00),
affordable housing and gentrification (38:30).
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| 5 | Tape 90 – Al Crosetti
Albert H. Crosetti was a longtime city planner, working with both
the Seattle Planning Commission and Seattle Planning Department. In 1950’s, as
member of the Seattle Planning Commission, he and co-author R.C. Schmitt
published several articles in professional journals. In the 1980’s, Crosetti
was senior planner for the city Department of Community Development.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: work with the planning
department (00:30), removal of single-family homes for apartments (8:00),
tracking demographics (15:00), housing projects (28:00), growth in the suburbs
(38:45), Federal Housing Authority (40:00). Side Two: services keep people in
Seattle (00:15), black, Japanese, and Chinese populations (3:00), affirmative
action (6:15), black neighborhoods and migration within Seattle (12:15),
planning for population growth (24:00). Other topics, individuals, and
organizations discussed include Seattle population demographics and census
data, city planning and growth, John Spath, the Seattle Planning Department,
Boeing, the University of Washington, and the Federal Housing Authority.
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| 5 | Tape 91 – Bob Hintz
Robert Hintz was an urban planner and architect. He was a member
of the Seattle Planning Department for numerous years. Hintz was hired as a
principal city planner in 1953. Hintz served as Chief Planner for the Seattle
Planning Commission in the 1960’s and helped develop the plans for the
Seattle World's Fair held in 1962. He passed away in 2008.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: height limit on office
buildings in Seattle (2:00), big building surge in the 1970s (5:45), concerns
about Denny regrade (8:30), parking and traffic problems (11:00), childhood
(14:45), Magnolia Historical Society (20:45), freeway (29:45), urban villages
(35:45), role of corporate community (37:15). Side Two: planning commission
(1:15), Bogue plan (4:00), zoning (5:00), Olmstead plan (10:30), city
government in the 1950s (17:45), zoning commission (28:00). The time period
discussed ranges from 1935-1992.
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| 5 | Tape 91 – Marion Langstaff
Marion Langstaff was on the City of Seattle’s Planning Commission.
She and her husband, Russell, were amateur local historians.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: height limit on office
buildings in Seattle (2:00), big building surge in the 1970s (5:45), concerns
about Denny regrade (8:30), parking and traffic problems (11:00), childhood
(14:45), Magnolia Historical Society (20:45), freeway (29:45), urban villages
(35:45), role of corporate community (37:15). Side Two: planning commission
(1:15), Bogue plan (4:00), zoning (5:00), Olmstead plan (10:30), city
government in the 1950s (17:45), zoning commission (28:00). Other topics,
individuals, and organizations discussed include Magnolia history, the early
development of Laurelhurst and Interbay, early transit, the construction of the
Ballard Locks, fiscal demographics, Otto D. Langstaff, Steve Lund, Tom Wilder,
Walt Miner, Daniel Gilman, and Ballard Historical Society. The time period
discussed ranges from 1900-1992.
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| 5 | Tape 92 – Larry Baker
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: rise in homelessness
(2:00), emergency housing (4:30), rent control initiative (8:30), new buildings
(14:30), communtity groups were idealistic and optimistic (17:30), focus on
needs of children (23:00), health and daycare (25:00), wading pools at parks
(28:00), civil rights movement and new ideals (34:30), anti-war activities and
SDS (36:00). Side Two: reaction of UW to anti-war activities (7:15), United
Front against Facism meeting (11:45), Weathermen (15:30), Seattle Liberation
Front (25:00), Cascade Community Council (29:00).
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| 5 | Tape 92 – Ewen Dingwall (Not available online. Contact
Special Collections for details)
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: rise in homelessness
(2:00), emergency housing (4:30), rent control initiative (8:30), new buildings
(14:30), communtity groups were idealistic and optimistic (17:30), focus on
needs of children (23:00), health and daycare (25:00), wading pools at parks
(28:00), civil rights movement and new ideals (34:30), anti-war activities and
SDS (36:00). Side Two: reaction of UW to anti-war activities (7:15), United
Front against Facism meeting (11:45), Weathermen (15:30), Seattle Liberation
Front (25:00), Cascade Community Council (29:00).
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| 5 | Tape 92 – Carole Lewis
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: rise in homelessness
(2:00), emergency housing (4:30), rent control initiative (8:30), new buildings
(14:30), communtity groups were idealistic and optimistic (17:30), focus on
needs of children (23:00), health and daycare (25:00), wading pools at parks
(28:00), civil rights movement and new ideals (34:30), anti-war activities and
SDS (36:00). Side Two: reaction of UW to anti-war activities (7:15), United
Front against Facism meeting (11:45), Weathermen (15:30), Seattle Liberation
Front (25:00), Cascade Community Council (29:00).
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| 5 | Tape 94 – Del and Pearl Castle
Del Castle was a union organizer and a labor and social activist.
In the 1930's, he first became involved in union organizing, participating in
strikes with the Sawmill and Timber Workers Union and an early farmworkers
union. In 1937, as co-chair of the King County Workers Alliance he helped
organize a two-week occupation of the King County Council chambers by hundreds
of the unemployed seeking benefits. Castle was elected secretary-treasurer of
the progressive Ship Scalers Union during the WWII years. In 1947 he married
Pearl Albino, then an actress with the new Seattle Repertory Theater. They were
married 52 years and raised two daughters. The Castles were also active in the
anti-war movement, protesting the Korean, Vietnam and Iraq Wars. In 1957, Del
became a longshoreman, joining the ILWU, Local 19. He served on the Executive
Board from 1963 until he retired in 1980. He passed away in 2006.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: communist party
(00:15), changes in the party in the 1960s (16:30). Side Two: political
activism (3:15), Un-American Committee (9:30), iterracial action committee,
artists for action, FEPC Committee (20:15), diversified neighborhoods (21:45),
police brutality (26:45), the Seattle Seven (28:45), anti-Vietnam war movement
(43:15). Other topics, individuals, and organizations discussed include the
Castles' involvement with and separation from the Communist Party, Cherry
Rubin, Lyle Mercer, Belby Camwell, Abraham Keller, Robert Reese, McCarthyism,
the Committee of Un-American Activities, Mt. Zion Baptist Church, and the
Seattle Seven. The time period discussed ranges from 1950-1980.
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| 5 | Tape 95 – Jim Braman
Jim Braman Jr. was the oldest son of former Seattle mayor J.D.
"Dorm" Braman. After returning home from World War II, he received a B.S. in
civil engineering and a Master's degree in regional planning from the
University of Washington. Braman’s career included working the Seattle Planning
Department and serving as the first director of the Seattle Department of
Community Development (1969-1974). Later, he worked with the environmental
engineering firm CH2M Hill, where he was Director of Planning for the firm's
Northwest Region. He passed away in 2009.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: preservation of Pioneer
Square and Pike Place Market (00:15), The Commons and urban village concept
(3:30), benefits of the Worlds' Fair (7:15), Forward Thrust (11:30), transit
(13:00), rail plan would have led to a different population (15:15). Other
topics, individuals, and organizations discussed invlude city planning,
development planning, land use issues, city zoning, John Spath, James Braman,
Les Walter, Vick Steinbrook, Wesley C. Uhlman, James (Jim) Reed, and Friends of
the Market. The time period discussed ranges from 1950-1980.
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| 5 | Tape 95 – Audrey Gruger
Audrey Gruger was a King County Council member and Washington
State representative. After graduating from the University of Washington she
became a social worker with the Washington Department of Social and Health
Services. Eventually, she felt she could be more effective as an elected
official and in 1978 she was elected to the Washington State House of
Representatives after running a grass-roots campaign from her basement. She
represented the 1st Legislative District in the Washington State House of
Representatives from 1976 to 1981. She served on the King County Council from
1982-1993 and served as chair in 1986, 1992 and 1993. She passed away in
2010.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: need for an improved
bus system (24:00), economic development council (33:00), human services round
table for child abuse and domestic violence (43:45). Side Two: medicare
(00:15), comprehensive plan and zoning review studies (2:15), Pike Place Market
(17:15), neighborhood plans (20:00), apartment zoning (27:00), protection of
residential environment rather than accommodation of a high population (32:00),
ring road (40:00). The time period discussed ranges from 1935-1992.
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| 6 | Tape 96 – Eddie Rye, Sr.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Garfield High School
(3:30), bussing (5:00), awareness of civil rights (7:00), police discrimination
(12:15), redlining (14:45), Model Cities (16:30), Action Intercity (25:30).
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| 6 | Tape 96 – James Washington
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: work as chairman of
labor and industry for the NAACP (39:30), the art of Seattle (40:30). On Side
Two: showing art in galleries (1:00), travel to Mexico and to meet Diego Rivera
(9:00).
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| 6 | Tape 97 – Abe Keller
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: threat of nuclear war
(00:15), Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) (5:45), World without War (10:00),
Turn toward Peace (11:00), AFSC (12:30), anti-war movement (16:00), strong
supporter of church groups (35:30), nonviolence (44:00). Side Two: meeting of
local communist party (6:15), Black Panters (26:00), rail system couldn't
compete with cars (39:45).
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| 6 | Tape 97 – Dick Nelson (Not available online. Contact
Special Collections for details)
Dick Nelson is a former Washington State legislator.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: threat of nuclear war
(00:15), Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) (5:45), World without War (10:00),
Turn toward Peace (11:00), AFSC (12:30), anti-war movement (16:00), strong
supporter of church groups (35:30), nonviolence (44:00). Side Two: meeting of
local communist party (6:15), Black Panters (26:00), rail system couldn't
compete with cars (39:45).
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| 6 | Tape 98 – Lucy Dougall (Not available online. Contact
Special Collections for details)
Lucy Dougall is a peace activist and educator. She is the author
of
The War/Peace Film
Guide (1970) and
War and Peace in
Literature (1981).
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: World without War
council (1:00), US-Soviet exhange (4:00), International Peace Academy (20:00),
need to get people together to break down walls and build community (33:30),
Turn toward Peace (49:30). Side Two: Greenpeace (00:15), changes to downtown
(5:30), Denny regrade (10:15), memories of the Depression (12:00), Civilian
Conservation Corps (16:30), joining the communist party and arrest for being an
Alien (24:00), New Deal (29:00), environmental movement (36:15). The time
period discussed ranges from 1935-1992.
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| 6 | Tape 98 – Hazel Wolf
Hazel Wolf was an environmental and social activist born in
Victoria, British Columbia. During the Depression, employed by the Works
Project Administration, Wolf set about unionizing workers. In 1964, she began
an active involvement with the Seattle Audubon Society, which was to continue
for the rest of her life. In 1990, Wolf met a Soviet delegation and held
discussions that paved the way for the founding of the Leningrad Audubon
Society in Russia. She lectured and taught at schools and universities all over
the United States. She lobbied Congress on irrigation, labor rights, nuclear
energy, and peace. She never held a political post higher than precinct
committee officer in Seattle’s 43rd legislative district, and her highest
office in the environmental movement was that of secretary in the Seattle
Audubon Society, where she served for thirty-five years. She passed away in
2000. She was 101 years old.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: World without War
council (1:00), US-Soviet exhange (4:00), International Peace Academy (20:00),
need to get people together to break down walls and build community (33:30),
Turn toward Peace (49:30). Side Two: Greenpeace (00:15), changes to downtown
(5:30), Denny regrade (10:15), memories of the Depression (12:00), Civilian
Conservation Corps (16:30), joining the communist party and arrest for being an
Alien (24:00), New Deal (29:00), environmental movement (36:15). The time
period discussed ranges from 1935-1992.
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| 6 | Tape 99 – George Cooley
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: low-income housing
(00:15), work as assistant treasurer for the city (4:30), freeways in Seattle
(8:00), need for a mass transit system (10:00), Forward Thrust (31:00), housing
improvement program (39:00).
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| 6 | Tape 100 – Margaret Pageler
Margaret Pageler is a Seattle lawyer and politician. She was a
Seattle City Council member from 1992 until 2003, spending two years as Council
president. She participated in the development of County-wide Planning
Policies, as well as Seattle’s Comprehensive Plan. While on city council, she
was also appointed to the State Board of Health and also chaired the board of
the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency. In 2004, Pageler was appointed to the Central
Puget Sound Growth Management Hearings Board by Governor Gary Locke and
reappointed for a second 6-year term by Governor Chris Gregoire in 2010.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: structure of the city
council (2:45). Side Two: 100 Young Men for Clinton (00:30), urban villages
(8:30), commuting problems (9:15), childhood (14:30), effect of population
growth on city structure (24:00).
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| 6 | Tape 100 – Joel Pritchard
Joel Pritchard was a Washington state politician. He was elected
to the Washington State House of Representatives from the 36th district
(1958-1966) and then as State Senator (1966-1970). He was a noted supporter of
civil rights, environmental legislation, anti-gambling measures, and other
reforms. In 1972, Pritchard was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives,
serving the 1st Congressional District for 12 years. In 1988, he was elected
Lieutenant Governor of Washington and was reelected in 1992. After the end of
his second term as Lieutenant Governor, Pritchard retired and became an active
board member of TVW (Washington State's public affairs network). He passed away
in 1997.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: structure of the city
council (2:45). Side Two: 100 Young Men for Clinton (00:30), urban villages
(8:30), commuting problems (9:15), childhood (14:30), effect of population
growth on city structure (24:00).
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| 6 | Tape 101 – Jim Barnes
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: development east of the
mountains (00:30), light rail (1:00), Lake Washington bridge (1:45), Office of
Neighborhood Planning (5:00), different types of commissions (7:00),
anti-planning city council (20:30), I-5 construction (21:45), Denny Regrade
(27:30), change from railroad to highway affected zoning (31:45), urban village
(33:30), transit system (40:00). Side Two: lack of rational freeway system
(10:15), the Bogue plan (16:00).
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| 6 | Tape 101 – Paul Edger
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: development east of the
mountains (00:30), light rail (1:00), Lake Washington bridge (1:45), Office of
Neighborhood Planning (5:00), different types of commissions (7:00),
anti-planning city council (20:30), I-5 construction (21:45), Denny Regrade
(27:30), change from railroad to highway affected zoning (31:45), urban village
(33:30), transit system (40:00). Side Two: lack of rational freeway system
(10:15), the Bogue plan (16:00).
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| 6 | Tape 102 – Capitol Hill
Narration of Gary Greave's walk through Capitol Hill. Narrates
types of buildings, names of businesses, schools, churches, and the general
feel of different streets.
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| 6 | Tape 103 – Jeanette Williams
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: regional transit
(00:30), Vice Chair of King County Democrats (11:00), fair housing ordiance
(21:15), campaigned focused on services to people (34:45), changes to her
neighborhood (36:00). Side Two: housing wasn't an issue in the 1970s (4:30),
homelessness and services (7:00), city council policy development (23:30).
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| 6 | Tape 104 – Capitol Hill
Narration of Gary Greave's walk through Capitol Hill and Pioneer
Square. Narrates types of buildings, names of businesses, schools, churches,
and the general feel of different streets.
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| 6 | Tape 105 – Harry Thomas (Not available online. Contact
Special Collections for details)
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: public housing (3:15),
Yesler Terrace (4:30), creating housing for the working poor (17:15), Jefferson
Terrace (20:00), Central Area Motivation Program (26:00), Union Gospel Mission
(28:00), Fremont Public Association (40:00), Morrison Hotel (41:00). Side Two:
work with community councils (10:00), shelters (12:30), need more people going
to the parks (31:00), immigration of Latin Americans (35:00).
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| 6 | Tape 105 – Nyer Urness
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: public housing (3:15),
Yesler Terrace (4:30), creating housing for the working poor (17:15), Jefferson
Terrace (20:00), Central Area Motivation Program (26:00), Union Gospel Mission
(28:00), Fremont Public Association (40:00), Morrison Hotel (41:00). Side Two:
work with community councils (10:00), shelters (12:30), need more people going
to the parks (31:00), immigration of Latin Americans (35:00).
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| 6 | Tape 106 – Dick and Mary Cabray
Topics discussed include, on Side One: transitional housing
(00:00), youth programs (1:00), church role in politics (7:00), Contra Aid
Coalition (20:30), Catholic Worker Movement (26:30). The time period discussed
ranges from 1935-1992.
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| 6 | Tape 106 – Martha Dilts
Topics discussed include, on Side Two: Downtown Emergency Services
Center (00:00), other homeless service centers (1:00), Greg Marlow Medina
Foundation (3:30), Seattle Housing Authority (4:00), family homelessness
(6:00), Seattle Emergency Housing Service (7:00), raising awareness (18:00),
healthcare for the homeless (21:30), units for homeless families (32:00),
low-income housing partnership (33:00), transitional housing (34:00)
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| 6 | Tape 107 – Folke Nyberg
Folke Nyberg was a Seattle architect and UW professor. Born in
Sweden in 1934, Nyberg moved with his family to Seattle in 1947. He received a
full scholarship to Yale University, earning his undergraduate degree and
graduate degree in Architecture. Following graduation, he worked for several
architects on the west coast, including Paul Thiry and Henry Klein, before
establishing his own firm. Nyberg was the Urban Design Section Head of the City
of Seattle Planning Commission and worked with Victor Steinbrueck to write the
ordinances preserving Pioneer Square and the Pike Place Market. He was an
emeritus professor of Architecture and of Urban Design and Planning at the
University of Washington from 1969 to 1999. He was known as a strong advocate
for affordable housing, public open space, and neighborhood preservation. He
passed away in 2010.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Court Order Advisory
Committee (9:00), union involvement (11:00), black community (14:30), inverse
discrimination (24:30), United Construction Workers (27:30), Sheet Metal union
(29:00). Side Two: downtown after the war (00:30), different stages in city
growth (1:30), historic preservation areas (6:30), tourist areas (11:00),
neighborhood involvement with downtown (15:00)
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| 6 | Tape 107 – Sid Volinn
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Court Order Advisory
Committee (9:00), union involvement (11:00), black community (14:30), inverse
discrimination (24:30), United Construction Workers (27:30), Sheet Metal union
(29:00). Side Two: downtown after the war (00:30), different stages in city
growth (1:30), historic preservation areas (6:30), tourist areas (11:00),
neighborhood involvement with downtown (15:00)
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| 6 | Tape 108 – Milton Carr
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: camps and missions
(2:00), transitional housing (13:00), changes since World's Fair (18:30), most
people not born in Seattle (24:00). Side Two: Health and Welfare Council of
Seattle and King County, Social Planning Council (00:00), school issues (3:30),
Central Area Community Council (5:00), Model Cities (8:00), Skid Road Committee
Council (14:30) Coumcil of Jewish Women (19:00), Health Station of Skid Road
and Model Cities health plan (25:00).
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| 6 | Tape 108 – Jack Seeley
Jack Seeley works in social services as an advocate for the
homeless and poor. For many years he was the director of the Seattle’s oldest
mission, the Peniel (opened in 1902), until it closed its doors in 2008.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: camps and missions
(2:00), transitional housing (13:00), changes since World's Fair (18:30), most
people not born in Seattle (24:00). Side Two: Health and Welfare Council of
Seattle and King County, Social Planning Council (00:00), school issues (3:30),
Central Area Community Council (5:00), Model Cities (8:00), Skid Road Committee
Council (14:30) Coumcil of Jewish Women (19:00), Health Station of Skid Road
and Model Cities health plan (25:00).
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| 6 | Tape 109 – Ron Sims
Ron Sims is a politician and civic leader. In 1985, Sims was
elected to the King County Council and was reelected in both 1989 and 1993. In
1996, he was appointed King County Executive after the previous holder of the
office, Gary Locke, was elected governor of Washington. For the next 12 years
Sims served as the Executive of Martin Luther King Jr. County in Washington
State, winning reelection in 1997, 2001 and 2005. He then entered national
politics and was appointed by President Obama (and unanimously confirmed by the
U.S. Senate) to the post of Deputy Secretary for the U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development from 2009 to 2011.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: confronting stereotypes
and racial issues early in life (4:30), Radical Student Body President (5:00),
black consumer protection (8:00), Southeast Affective Development (10:00),
Forward Thrust (13:30), housing in central and southeast Seattle (15:30),
zoning and land use (18:30), alternative schools (27:00), scholastic
achievement is not racial (35:00), state-mandated affirmative action (36:30).
Side Two: minority employment opportunities (3:00), racial discrimination
(10:30), needs for opportunities for youth (14:00), Big Brother Big Sister
program (18:30).
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| 6 | Tape 110 – Lee Zobrist
Lee Zobrist lives in Seattle's Queen Anne neighborhood. The
Zobrist family have been Queen Anne residents for over eighty years.
A discussion about the history of Queen Anne hill and its
residents and businesses, as well as businesses and buildings downtown.
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| 6 | Tape 111 – Robert Stern
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: involvement with civil
rights and urban renewal demonstrations (00:00), activism at the University of
Washington (1:30), Students for Democratic Society (14:30), riots in the
University District (22:00), Socialist Workers' Party (26:30), black community
and racism (36:00), less-defined ethnic communities (38:30). Side Two: Black
Panthers (00:30), labor movement (3:30)
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| 6 | Tape 112 –Peter Corr
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Franklin and Garfield
High Schools (3:30), demonstrations and discussion about Vietnam (4:30), Black
Panthers (11:00), Cabinet Apprenticeship (13:30), cabinet union and carpenter's
union (15:30), labor activism (23:30), anti-war presence (24:00).
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| 6 | Tape 112 – Nick Licata
Nick Licata has been a Seattle City Council Member since 1998. He
lived in the PRAG House collective for 25 years and was president for eight
years of the Evergreen Land Trust, a collective property trust. Before entering
politics, Licata helped found the anti discrimination organization, Coalition
Against Redlining in Seattle and testified before Congress on the Community
Reinvestment Act. While on the Seattle City Council, he has chaired committees
dealing with parks, arts, police, fire, civil rights, and neighborhoods. He was
the sponsor/advocate of the city’s Paid Sick and Safe Leave ordinance, and
started the Poet Populist program, the first each year for a local poet to lead
public events, read in public schools and libraries.
Topics of discussion include, on Side Two: Students for Democratic
Society (00:30), activist community and cheap housing (3:30), WASHPIRG (8:00),
Washington Fair Share, state legislature, and Washington Citizen Action Group
(14:30), Community Reinvestment Act (15:30), Catholic church and Catholic
Community Services (21:00), campaign for City Council in 1979 (22:30), SANE
(31:30), Washington Fair Share (33:00), Washington Free Press (44:00).
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| 6 | Tape 113 – Ruth Chiles
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: work as a high school
teacher (2:00), civil rights movement (8:00), differences between the white and
black communities (16:00), urban renewal and revitalization (26:30), bussing
students (33:30), importance of awareness of heritage (38:30), integrated and
segregated schools (43:30). Side Two: problems with bussing (00:30), itegrated
housing (2:30), inferiority of black schools (5:30), welfare (14:00), NAACP
(17:00), hospitality house (33:30), Hot Meals committee and Asian Community
Council Association (41:30).
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| 6 | Tape 114 – Ruth Chiles
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: party politics (1:00),
integration of social life (3:00), investing in the Central Area (5:00),
medical professions (10:30), religious education (17:00), anti-black
programming (35:30). Side Two: Martin Luther King, Jr. and other leaders
(00:00), cuts to social services (6:30), developmental disabilities group
(15:00), Malcolm X (18:00), teaching at Seattle University (33:00).
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| 7 | Tape 115 – Don Myers
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: experiences during
World War II and immediately after (00:00), Boeing, shipyards, and lumber
companies (1:00), Eastlake neighborhood zoning and businesses (6:00), transient
society (17:00), discussion of the freeway (24:30), opposition to fixed rail
(33:00), neighborhood schools (41:30), rapid transit tunnel (45:00).
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| 7 | Tape 116 – Jay White
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: businesses and
buildings in Ballard (00:00), Belltown project (7:30), Ballard Avenue and
Market Street (16:30), Goldenview (29:00), Holman Road (34:00), Carkeek Park
(38:00), description of Greenwood neighborhood (39:00). Side Two: reminiscences
of childhood (00:00), Japanese family (4:30), work doing construction and as a
longshoreman (8:30), unions (13:00), interurban and trolleys (16:00), housing
and developments (19:00)
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| 7 | Tape 116 – Unidentified
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: businesses and
buildings in Ballard (00:00), Belltown project (7:30), Ballard Avenue and
Market Street (16:30), Goldenview (29:00), Holman Road (34:00), Carkeek Park
(38:00), description of Greenwood neighborhood (39:00). Side Two: reminiscences
of childhood (00:00), Japanese family (4:30), work doing construction and as a
longshoreman (8:30), unions (13:00), interurban and trolleys (16:00), housing
and developments (19:00)
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| 7 | Tape 117 – Bob Hintz
Robert Hintz was an urban planner and architect. He was a member
of the Seattle Planning Department for numerous years. Hintz was hired as a
principal city planner in 1953. Hintz served as Chief Planner for the Seattle
Planning Commission in the 1960’s and helped develop the plans for the
Seattle World's Fair held in 1962. He passed away in 2008.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: disillusionment with
city parks and the school board (00:00), bussing problem and integration
(1:00), planning commission, bussing, and zoning (3:00), neighborhood activism
(4:30), zoning (8:00), Central Area (9:00), Northgate (10:00), Ballard, West
Seattle, and the University District (10:30), attempts to eradicate strip
zoning (13:00), parking requirements (13:30), Denny regrade (16:00), The
Commons (18:00), I-5, the viaduct, and the ring road (26:30), Aurora bridge
(30:30), planning commission downtown (33:30), height limits (34:30). The time
period discussed ranges from 1935-1992.
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| 7 | Tape 118 – Roger Sale
Roger Sale is an author and critic. He spent most of his career as
a professor of English at the University of Washington, teaching from the
1970’s until his retirement in 1999. His books include
Modern Heroism: Essays on D.
H. Lawrence, William Empson and J.R.R. Tolkien and
On Not Being Good Enough:
Writings of a Working Critic. He frequently contributed to the New York
Review of Books in the 1970's and early 1980's. He is probably best known for
his book about the history of Seattle,
Seattle Past to
Present, which was first published in 1976.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Black Power (00:15),
Head Start program (00:45), CAMP (1:30), Upward Bound and the War on Poverty
(2:45), Balck Student Union (8:15), intra-city demographics (17:00),
integration and open housing (24:30), school integration (29:00), bussing
(30:15), Model Cities (35:30), Seattle Seven (37:30), Seattle natives vs.
newcomers (40:30), World's Fair (43:30), Allied Arts (44:15). Side Two: low
real estate prices in Seattle (00:30), suburbanization of Seattle (2:00),
transportation and rail (10:45), the regrade (22:45), the ring road (28:30),
local book publishers (37:00).
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| 7 | Tape 119 – Marion and Russell Langstaff
Marion Langstaff served on the City of Seattle’s Planning
Commission. She and her husband, Russell, were amateur local historians.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: fishing boats, docks,
and Fisherman's Terminal (1:30), changing of the fishing industry (8:00),
experiences during World War II (12:00), life on Beacon Hill (15:30), changes
in the Magnolia neighborhood (21:00), Interbay lost its identity (24:30),
community club in Magnolia (26:00), the Mountaineers and other community groups
(44:00). Side Two: Fort Lawton and Discovery Park (00:00), difficult access to
Magnolia (4:00), diverse demographics at Fort Lawton (9:00). Other topics,
individuals, and organizations discussed include zoning and land use for
low-income housing, the history of city planning, open space use, the
difference between argricultural and industrial zoning, Ballard history, ring
road plans, women's equality issues, Bob Hintz, James Braman, Jim Barnes,
Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation, Seattle Planning Commission,
Interbay, South Park, and Georgetown. The time period discussed ranges from
1950-1992.
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| 7 | Tape 121 – Johnny Shek
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: immigration from
Indo-China (00:30), typical immigrant experience (8:00), culture shock (13:30),
success of the Chinese community (23:00), community programs (37:00, gang
activity (39:00). Side Two: local politics and political opportunities (00:00).
Interview ends 7 minutes in on Side Two. Other topics, individuals, and
organizations discussed (on Tape 121) include a prison building proposal, youth
crime, housing and community in the 1970s, downtown Seattle gentrification,
traffic problems in the International District, housing for the elderly, Ed
Murray, Jim McDermott, Norm Rice, Cheryl Chow, Martha Choe, Seattle City
Council, Seattle Housing Resources Group, International District Business
Improvement Association, and Sunshine Garden Chinese Senior Day Care Center.
The time period discussed ranges from 1935-1992.
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| 7 | Tape 121 – Bob Santos
Robert “Bob” Santos is a well-known leader of the movement that
began in the 1970s to preserve Seattle’s Chinatown/International District. A
former president of the Catholic Interracial Council, he served for years as
Executive Director of Inter*Im.
Topics of discussion include, on Side Two: Japanese during World
War II (7:15), Filipino community (11:00), Yesler Terrace (13:30), segregation
(14:45), civil rights movement (17:00), community services organization
(19:45), community activism (22:00), Seattle Human Rights Commission (25:30),
developments in the International District and South Seattle (26:30), Model
Cities (39:00), community groups and housing (40:00), Seattle Commons (46:00).
Other topics, individuals, and organizations discussed (on Tape 121) include a
prison building proposal, youth crime, housing and community in the 1970s,
downtown Seattle gentrification, traffic problems in the International
District, housing for the elderly, Ed Murray, Jim McDermott, Norm Rice, Cheryl
Chow, Martha Choe, Seattle City Council, Seattle Housing Resources Group,
International District Business Improvement Association, and Sunshine Garden
Chinese Senior Day Care Center. The time period discussed ranges from
1935-1992.
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| 7 | Tape 122 – Kenneth Baxter
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: food banks and church
involvement (00:15), Hearst Foundation (1:00), problems facing refugee families
(8:00), food banks (13:00), needs of minority communities (16:15), anti-poverty
programs (17:00), Neighbors in Need, Northwest Harvest, and Washington Hunger
Response (19:00), NW Food Lifeline (23:15), Senior High Rise Housing Project
(26:15). Side Two: youth participation in food programs (1:00).
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| 7 | Tape 123 – Steve Shepperd
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: urban renewal (00:00),
Jackson Street Community Group and Urban Renewal Commission (1:00), RH Thompson
Expressway (3:00), park in the Central Area (10:00), Jewish community and the
Langston Hughes Cultural Center (19:30), urban renewal changed the character of
neighborhoods (23:30).
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Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Jackson Street
community organization (35:15), Central Area Development Association (37:00),
misconception of urban renewal (40:00), permitting (45:00).
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Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Garfield and Liggett
schools (00:15), houses built in the 1920s (7:00), places and people in Ballard
(11:30), streetcars on Greenwood and Phinney (14:45), apartments built in the
1930s (18:15), Carkeek Park area (27:00), comparison of local parks, including
Seward, Lincoln, Carkeek, and the arboretum (43:00), Broadview (45:00).
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| 7 | Tape 125 – Tyree Scott
Tyree Scott was a labor leader and activist who championed
minority workers and equal opportunity organizations. Scott, an electrician,
grew up in Texas, moved to Seattle in 1966, and became a leader in the Central
Contractors Association (CCA), an organization that fought discrimination in
the unions and construction trades. In 1970, he founded the United Construction
Workers Association (UCWA) to coordinate a grassroots movement to end union
discrimination against minority workers. In 1973, the UCWA, the Alaska Cannery
Workers Association, and the Northwest chapter of the United Farm Workers
joined forces to found the Northwest Labor and Employment Law Office (LELO).
During the 1980s, Scott began taking his labor and civil rights mission abroad
and formed organizations to help laborers in developing countries. In 1997, he
led a LELO-sponsored Seattle conference international conference which drew
delegates from a dozen countries who discussed leadership of labor and civil
rights activism. He passed away 2003.
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| 7 | Tape 1 – David Rash
David Rash is a Seattle architecture historian and author.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: developmental pressures
and architecture in Tacoma and Seattle (00:00), economic expansion and change
after World War II (11:00), demographics in Seattle and Asian Americans
(15:00), Filipino immigrants (22:00), transportation and neighborhood
accessibility to downtown (30:00). Side Two: Japanese-American experience
(00:00), Asian influence in Seattle is not well-documented (10:00), lack of
development of an extensive Chinese community (15:00), connection between the
health of the economy and racial discrimination (22:00). Other topics,
individuals, and organizations discussed include destruction of Tacoma
buildings, pre-WWII era housing, Pacific Asian American housing patterns, a
history of Seattle neighborhood planning, history of Asian housing and
discrimination in Seattle, International District architecture, Rash's
contributions to
Seattle Architecture: A
Historical Guide to the Architects, Pacific Northwest architecture and
landscape design, Bruce Price, John Graham, Kichio Allen Arai, Donald McKay,
Louis Beezer, Michael J. Beezer, Ann Halt, Jeffrey Karl Ochsner, Alfred Bodley,
Edward Schwagerl, Oriental Trading Company, Seattle City Council, Seattle
Housing Authority, and Society of Architectural Historians. The time period
discussed ranges from 1880-1992.
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| 7 | Tape 2 – Russell Langstaff
Marion Langstaff was on the City of Seattle’s Planning Commission.
She and her husband, Russell, were amateur local historians.
Topics, individuals, and organizations discussed include Magnolia
history, the early development of Laurelhurst and Interbay, early transit,
Ballard Locks construction, fiscal demographics, Otto D. Langstaff, Steve Lund,
Tom Wilder, Walt Miner,Daniel Gilman, Ballard Historical Society, and Magnolia
Historical Society. The time period discussed ranges from 1900-1992.
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| 7 | Tape 2 – Roger Wheeler
Roger Wheeler is a local artist. He proudly resides in the Seattle
neighborhood of Fremont.
Topics, individuals, and organizations discussed include Fremont
history and preservation; neighborhood activism, Wah Mee Gee, Peter Bevus,
Quadrant Homes, Washington Improvement Society, The Daily Planet, and The
Fremont Fine Arts Foundry. The time period discussed ranges from 1880-1992.
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| 7 | Tape 3 – Lem Howell
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| 7 | Tape 4 – Dorothy Cordova
Dorothy Cordova is an civil activist, educator, author and
historian. A Seattle native, she is second-generation Filipino American and a
member of the largest pioneering family in Western Washington. She has been
involved in Filipino American activism since the 1950’s. In 1957, Dorothy and
her husband, Fred, co-founded the Filipino Youth Activities (FYA) of Seattle
and created the award-winning FYA Drill Team in 1959. The FYA became an
important force for organizing demonstrations in the 1960’s and 1970’s. The
Cordovas also created the Demonstration Project for Asian Americans in the
1970’s, and the Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS) in the
1980’s. She is the Executive Director of FANHS.
Topics, individuals, and organizations discussed include growing
up in Capitol Hill, “I am Filipino Not Japanese” buttons, school busing,
restrictive covenants, Yakima farmer and minority farming exclusion, WWII
Filipino enlistment and citizenship, Alaska migration, discussion of dating and
mixed marriages within the Filipino community, war brides, gender roles, racism
and civil rights movement, Dolores Sibonga, Morris Hardcastle, Rev. D. Harvey,
Archbishop Thomas Connelly, Walter Hubbard Jr., Bob Santos, Maryknoll Jesuit
School, Seattle College, Open Housing, and Seattle Catholic Interracial
Council. The time period discussed ranges from 1880-1992.
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| 7 | Tape 4 – Jim Diers
Jim Diers was appointed as the first director of Seattle’s
Department of Neighborhoods in 1988. After leaving the Department of
Neighborhoods in 2002, Jim worked as Interim Director of the Delridge
Neighborhoods Development Association and as Executive Director of the South
Downtown Foundation.
Topics, individuals, and organizations discussed include work as a
community organizer, discussion of criteria for a successful neighborhood,
changing focus of community groups, city funding practices, need for both city
and neighborhood planning, Jim Street, Mary Jo Shannon, Neighborhood Planning
Assistance Program, South End Seattle Community Organization (SESCO), Greenwood
Gardens, Holly Park, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD),
Greenwood Gardens, Light Brigade, Seattle City Light, Washington Public Power
Supply System (WPPPS), Washington Fair Share, South East Crime Council, Power
for Schools, Seattle Foundation, Industrial Area Foundation, Association for
Community Organizing and Reform Now, Neighborhood Public Assistance Program,
Food Banks, Scattered Site Program, and New Growth Management Act. The time
period discussed ranges from 1970-1991.
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| 7 | Tape 5 – Phyllis Lamphere
Phyllis Lamphere is a civic leader and City Council reformer. She
served on the Seattle City Council from 1968-1978. She resigned August 14, 1978
to take the position with the U.S. Economic Development Agency.
Topics, individuals, and organizations discussed include
restructuring the City Council, civil rights movement and social agenda of the
city, extent of abuse of power and backroom politics, new population and need
for new city government, Open Meeting law, decentralization of Council
decision-making, Pike Place Market and Pioneer Square controversy, women’s
equality issues, Bob Dunn, Sam Smith, Myrtle Edwards, Charlie Carroll, Bob
Alexander, Mitchell, Mike; R H. Thompson, Ted Best, Carl Norman, John Miller,
Bruce Chapman, Jeanette Williams, George Cooley, Floyd Miller, Ray Eckmann, Tim
Hill, Jim Ellis, City Council Legislative Review Committee, Seattle City
Council, South Community Police Corps, Youth Corps, Choose an Effective City
Council (CHECC), Open Housing, Model Cities, and Allied Arts Foundation. The
time period discussed ranges from 1930-1992.
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| 7 | Tape 6 – Rod Kirkwood, Sr.
Roderick Kirkwood Sr. worked for John Graham & Company,
Architects and Engineers for over 46 years. He began as a mechanical engineer,
later becoming director of operations, partner, and then, president. He led the
engineering design team on many major projects, including the Seattle Space
Needle, the Westin Tower and Hotel, and Northgate Mall.
Topics, individuals, and organizations discussed include
autobiographical information, Denny Regrade, military service, pre-WWII and
post-WWII building mechanical systems, downtown department stores, Northgate
Mall impact, mixed use buildings, discussion of downtown development and the
economy, Graham and Co.’s relationship with the city and Space Needle
investment, architectural aesthetics, urban villages and mass transit system,
John Graham Dan Rostenkowski, John Graham and Co., Stimson Center Project,
League of Women Voters, Public Works Committee, and Prescott Development. The
time period discussed ranges from 1935-1992.
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| 7 | Tape 7 – Junius Rochester (full transcript available in
Box 9)
Junius Rochester is a writer and local historian. For seven years
he was the Regional Historian at KUOW-FM, the Pacific Northwest’s National
Public Radio affiliate.
Topics, individuals, and organizations discussed include personal
history and family’s early history on Capitol Hill, turn-of-the-century Seattle
history, racial divisions in Seattle, discussion of Madrona history while
taking a short walk to look at one of the neighborhood’s first houses, Madrona
demographics, history of community councils, redlining, desegregating Mt. Baker
Community Club dances, Mt. Baker demographic changes, Alfred Rochester,
Ellsworth Storey, Charles Denny, John Charles Olmstead, Sarah Bernhardt, Paul
Dorpat, George Alfred Caldwell Rochester, Viretta Denny, Howard Schultz, Camper
Freeman Sr., Mt. Baker Community Club, Central Seattle Community Council
Federation, Seattle Tennis Club, First Hill Community Council, and Seattle
Central Community Council. The time period discussed ranges from 1880-1992.
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| 8 | Tape 8 – Frank Irigon (full transcript of Irigon interview
available in Box 9)
Frank Irigon was an Asian American student activist. In 1972, he
co-founded the Seattle-based periodical,
Asian Family Affair,
serving as both its co-editor and as a writer. He has held various social
service leadership positions related to International District and API issues,
including co-founding the International Community Health Center and serving as
executive director.
Topics, individuals, and organizations discussed include Asian
activism in Seattle International District, the creation of Asian newspapers
and Washington State government’s various affirmative action plans, recruitment
of students through UW Educational Opportunity Program (0:25), Nemesio Domingo
and The Capa Sana newspaper (1:09), Al Sugiyama, SCCC, Asian employment reps
(4:48), racism in popular music (5:37), community activism against the dome
stadium (6:00), demonstrating with Tyree Scott (8:13), City of Seattle/Public
Development Authority for the International District (10:10), low income
housing/ ID preservation (11:00),Jadetown (13:29), Asian group demographics
(14:01), Asian Employment Center (16:15), Seattle school board (17:11),
continuing community connections (17:39), Asian community mental and health
clinics (18:30), importance of cultural traditions (20:33), importance of Asian
student coalition (21:50), Silme Domingo (22:50), connection with the
Philippines (23:49), creation of activist groups, Concerned Asians for the
International District, Asians for a Fair and Responsive Media (25:11),
Seattle’s Asian Pacific communities success working together (29:43),
reflections on community activism (30:08), love within community (33:04), Al
Sugiyama, Diane Wong, Norman Mar, Silme Domingo, Nemesio Domingo, Bob Santos,
University of Washington Asian Student Coalition, and Concerned Asians for the
International District. The time period discussed ranges from 1968-1991.
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| 8 | Tape 9 – John Miller
John Ripin Miller is a politician and attorney. He was assistant
attorney general of State of Washington (1965-1968) and a Seattle City Council
member from 1972 to 1980. Miller's first campaign for the City Council was tied
to saving the Pike Place Market and while on the Council he oversaw its
rehabilitation. From 1985 to 1993, Miller served in the U.S. House of
Representatives as a Republican representative from the 1st congressional
district of Washington. Miller served as the director, Office to Monitor and
Combat Trafficking in Persons for the U.S. State Department, with the rank of
Ambassador-at-Large from 2002 to 2006.
Topics, individuals, and organizations discussed include an
asessment of Seattle government’s past performance, Seattle neighborhoods
anti-institutionalism, single-family homes, community meetings, lack of final
results for council endeavors, alternative schools, innovation coming from
outside of city government, non-profits and job creation factors, national and
local recession, Bruce Chapman, Jame (Dorm) Braman, Jim Street, Maury Claeys,
Dan Evans, Wes Uhlman, Charles Royer, Jim Ellis, Paul Schell, Gerry Johnson,
Seattle City Council, P-Patch Program, Street-end Park Program, Neighborhood
Housing Program, Seattle Commons, Seattle’s Sister City Program, Boeing, and
Cascadia. The time period discussed ranges from 1940-1992.
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| 8 | Tape 9 – Wes Uhlmann
Wes Uhlman served as Seattle’s Mayor from 1969 until 1977. During
his tenure he dealt with one of Seattle’s most severe economic downturns, a
notoriously corrupt Police Department and played a pivotal role in a number of
important moments in Seattle’s civil rights history. He also was instrumental
in movement to save Pike Place Market, Pioneer Square and First Avenue.
Topics, individuals, and organizations discussed include positive
relationship with African American community, downtown Seattle retail stores
and crime, campaigns to save the Pike Place Market and Pioneer Square, downtown
low income housing, recession, job creation, downtown Seattle development,
low-income housing improvements, racism and corruption within the police dept,
Joe Diamond, R.H. Thompson, James Braman Jr., Art Skolnick, Claude Harris;
Frank Ramon, C.H. Gain, George Tielsch, Model Cities, U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and Seattle Housing Authority. The time
period discussed ranges from 1880-1992.
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| 8 | Tape 10 – Fred Bassetti
Fred Bassetti was a Pacific Northwest architect, teacher, and a
prime contributor to the regional approach to Modern architecture during the
1940’s-1990’s. His work includes the Jackson Federal Building, the Seattle
Aquarium and the Seattle Municipal Tower. He passed away in 2012.
Topics, individuals, and organizations discussed include
low-income hosing, autobiographical history, downtown post office demolition,
Seattle architecture, historical preservation activism, Burke Building
politics, White-Henry-Stuart Building controversy, developers, history of
Seattle building preservation, Braman’s national architectural competition,
need for utilization of street level space, downtown retail stores, John
Graham, Minoru Yamasaki, Victor Steinbrueck, Phyllis Lamphere, James (Dorm)
Braman, Mary Jo Hanson, Theo Damm, Paul Thiry, Shay Albin, Paul Hayden Kirk,
John (Ted) Jacobsen, Jack Sproul, Pietro Belluschi, Joe Wilson, Frank Lloyd
Wright, Yesler Terrace, Seattle Housing Authority, Metropolitan Building Co.,
Pike Place Market, Central Association of Seattle, and Allied Arts Foundation.
The time period discussed ranges from 1880-1992.
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| 8 | Tape 11 – David DeBarnardis
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| 8 | Tape 11 – Norm Rice
Norm Rice was elected to the Seattle City Council in 1978 through
a special election. He served three consecutive terms on the city council until
being elected mayor in 1989. He served as Seattle's first African American
mayor until 1997. He joined the UW Evans School of Public Affairs in 2006.
Topics, individuals, and organizations discussed include
discussion of his educational history, National Urban League Project/Masters
Thesis - “Minority Access to Electronic Media,” corporate social
responsibility, need for education reform, urban villages, criteria for a
successful city, William Jefferson Clinton, Aaron Dixon, University of
Washington, Urban League, Rainer Bank, Mt. Baker Community Club, Seattle City
Council, Neighborhood Housing Program, and Seattle Reconciliation Project. The
time period discussed ranges from 1965-1992.
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| 8 | Tape 12 – Phyllis Lamphere
Phyllis Lamphere is a civic leader and City Council reformer. She
served on the Seattle City Council from 1968-1978. She resigned August 14, 1978
to take the position with the U.S. Economic Development Agency.
Topics, individuals, and organizations discussed include
restructuring the City Council, civil rights movement and social agenda of the
city, extent of abuse of power and backroom politics, new population and need
for new city government, Open Meeting law, decentralization of Council
decision-making, Pike Place Market and Pioneer Square controversy, women’s
equality issues, Bob Dunn, Sam Smith, Myrtle Edwards, Charlie Carroll, Bob
Alexander, Mike Mitchell, R.H. Thompson, Ted Best, Carl Norman, John Miller,
Bruce Chapman, Jeanette Williams, George Cooley, Floyd Miller, Ray Eckmann, Tim
Hill, Victor Steinbrueck, Jim Ellis, City Council Legislative Review Committee,
Seattle City Council, South Community Police Corps, Youth Corps, Choose an
Effective City Council (CHECC), Open Housing, Model Cities, and Allied Arts
Foundation. The time period discussed ranges from 1930-1992.
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| 8 | Tape 12 – Jim Street
Jim Street is a former Seattle City Council member (1984-1995) and
a retired King County Superior Court judge. On the city council he served as
chair of the Land Use Committee (1984-1989), Growth Policies and Regional
Affairs Committee (1990-1995). Street also served as president of the Puget
Sound Regional Council in 1992 and 1993. He helped create of the Department of
Neighborhoods (DON) and the development of the Neighborhood Matching Fund grant
program within DON. Following his tenure on the Council, Street spent four
years as a Superior Court judge, including one year in juvenile court. In 2001,
he became a steering committee member and director of the Reinvesting in Youth
program, a regional effort in prevention and early intervention with at-risk
youth.
Topics, individuals, and organizations discussed include campaign
reform, community representation on a national level, autobiographical
information, importance of strong neighborhood groups and facilitation of
neighborhood leadership, neighborhood planning problems, low-income needs and
funding, housing and social services, John Miller, Jay Nolan, Tom Weeks, Martha
Choe, Sherri Harris, Norm Rice, Dolores Sibonga, Darlene Flynn, Common Cause,
Initiative 134, Citizens Budget Advisory Campaign, Referee Call Task Force,
Land Use Committee, Growth Policies and Regional Affairs Committee, Department
of Neighborhoods, Operation Homestead, Neighborhood Matching Fund Program,
Greenwood Community Council, Committee on Public Education, and Minority
Leaders Coalition. The time period discussed ranges from 1935-1992.
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| 8 | Tape 13 – Chris Finn
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| 8 | Tape 13 – Joe Martin
Boston native Joe Martin has been a Seattle social work for over
forty years. He co-founded the Downtown Emergency Service Center. He is a long
time advocate for the homeless, displaced, and low-income community.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: work at Seattle Mental
Health Institute (00:00), Fist Avenue Service Center (3:00), skid road (6:00),
veterans (13:00), alcoholism (15:00), changing economy (17:00), service economy
(18:00), housing issues and homelessness (29:00), housing preservation laws
(31:00), Downtown Emergency Services Clinic (42:00). Other topics, individuals,
and orgranizations discussed include pre-gentrification Skid Row and dense and
diverse Skid Row populations, emergency shelters, Chris Hurley, Charles Royer,
Tom Byers, Rudy Label, Ken Cole, David Long, Save the Market campaign, Lutheran
Compass Center, Bread of Life Mission, Union Gospel Mission, Seattle Housing
Authority, and Country Doctor. The time period discussed ranges from
1970-1992.
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| 8 | Tape 14 – Phil and Lois Hayasaka (full transcript
available in Box 9)
Seattle native Phil Hayasaka spent WWII in an internment camp. He
served as President of the Seattle Japanese American Citizens League, President
of the Jackson Street Community Council, and became the first Director of the
Seattle Human Rights Commission. Lois Hayasaka was a researcher-writer who
worked for the State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil
Rights.
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| 8 | Tape 16 – Ben and Ruth Woo
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| 8 | Tape 17 – Bob Gogerty
Bob Gogerty served as Wes Uhlman’s deputy mayor and director of
the city’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. He chaired Washington Governor
Mike Lowry’s campaign, as well as heading a many of campaigns, including
measures to fund development of rapid transit in the Puget Sound region.
Topics, individuals, and organizations discussed include Seattle
politics, transit and city program funding, Seattle as a successful model of
community mobilization, historical preservation, Uhlman’s first term and
re-election, police department corruption, racial unrest in early 1970’s, City
of Seattle gay and lesbian liaison, Uhlman’s relationship with African American
community, 1974 mayoral recall and second term, public safety, Central
District, Ed Devine, Floyd Miller, Wes Uhlman, Mike Cafferty, Bob Lavoie, Dick
Paige, Jim Ellis, Ed Horowitz, Jerry Snyder, Eddie Carlson, David Brewster,
Robert (Woody) Wilkinson, Ralph Anderson, James Braman Jr., Roy Morse, Mike
Lowry, Tony Schwartz, Graham David, Tyree Scott, Bob Hansen, Wayne Larkin,
Phyllis Lamphere, Tim Hill, Tom Colten, Ed Wood, Claude Harris, Ben McAdoo,
Forward Washington, Forward Thrust, Seattle Transit, Office of Management and
Budget (OMB), Choose an Effective City Council (CHECC), Model Cities, Seattle
Fire Department, Medic One, Seattle City Light, and Seattle Commons. The time
period discussed ranges from 1960-1991.
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| 8 | Tape 18 – Chris Bayley
Christopher T. Bayley started his political career in the 1960’s
and served as King County Prosecuting Attorney until 1978.
Topics, individuals, and organizations discussed include his start
in politics, discussion of creation and bi-partisanship of CHECC, city charter
amendments, 1968 and 1969 elections, city government access to federal funds,
primary election against County Prosecuting Attorney Carroll, history of
changes in city political environment and leadership, creation of urban
villages and light rail, public school improvement, Dan Evans, Bruce Chapman,
Norm Maleng, Sam Reed, Slade Gorton, Paul Schell, Wes Uhlman, James (Jim)
Ellis, Charles O. Carroll, Warren Grant Magnuson, Ripon Society, Project 1963 -
The Future of Present State Problems, Choosing Effective City Council (CHECC),
Seattle City Council, Action for Washington, Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
Forward Thrust, Seattle Commons, and the Seattle School District. The time
period discussed ranges from 1955-1991.
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| 8 | Tape 18 – Marion Langstaff
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| 8 | Tape 19 – Arline Yarbrough (full transcript available in
Box 9)
Arline Yarbrough was a long time civil rights activist and one of
the first African American staff members at the University of Washington. She
served as President of the Washington State Association of Colored Women’s
Clubs from 1975-1979 and co-founded the annual Relatives of Old-Timers (ROOTS)
Picnic.
Topics, individuals, and organizations discussed include ROOTS
picnic origin (0:53), influx of African Americans in Seattle during the 1940’s
and 1950’s (2:00), work opportunities for African Americans during that time
(2:50), husband’s experience of racism in the army and resulting involvement in
the NAACP and Urban League (9:02), Fair Housing Ordinance (10:58), Open
Housing/real estate discrimination in Seattle (11:37), Christian Friends for
Racial Equality (13:28), discrimination on Seattle after the war (15:32),
influx of African Americans in Western Washington during late 1960’s (19:32),
African Americans neighborhood demographics and housing discrimination (24:50),
Bellevue (27:41), hiring discrimination in school district (30:20), Mayor
Braman opposition of Open Housing (32:36), the support of Jim Braman’s
granddaughter (34:18), ROOTS picnic (36:08), ROOTS and SHOOTS (47:41), police
force (54:08), future of Seattle (54:43), husband (Letcher Yarbrough)
experiences of racism while serving in the military during WWII (57:54),
husband’s work in the NAACP fighting police brutality (60:53), being hired as
one of the first African American secretaries at the University of Washington
in mid 1960’s (65:39), friendship with Mayor Norm Rice (68:31), Letcher "Jim"
Yarbrough, Dorothy Hollingsworth, Jim Braman, Norm Rice, ROOTS picnic
(Relatives Of Old Timers in Seattle), NAACP (National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People), Christian Friends for Racial Equality, and the
University of Washington. The time period discussed ranges from 1938-1992.
Listening copy available on sound disc located in box 11
Listen to the audio recording of
this interview on the Libraries Digital Collections website.
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| 8 | Tape 20 – Bob Santos
Robert “Bob” Santos is a well-known leader of the movement that
began in the 1970s to preserve Seattle’s Chinatown/ International District. A
former president of the Catholic Interracial Council, he served for years as
Executive Director of Inter*Im.
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: building a prison
facility (1:06), street-smart kids (4:52), Wah Mee murders (8:01), issues with
homelessness (11:18). Other topics, individuals, and organizations discussed
include prison building proposal, youth and crime, housing and community in the
1970’s, downtown Seattle gentrification, International District traffic
problems, community business concerns and preservation, housing for the
elderly, International District borders, Ed Murray, Jim McDermott, Norm Rice,
Cheryl Chow, Martha Choe, Seattle City Council, Seattle Housing Resources
Group, International District Business Improvement Association, and Sunshine
Garden Chinese Senior Day Care Center. The time period discussed ranges from
1935-1992.
Listening copy available on sound disc located in box 11
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| 9 | Full transcripts of interviews with John Fox, Phil and Lois Hayasaka, Francisco "Frank" Irigon, Junius Rochestor, Tyree Scott, and Arline Yarbrough | |
| 9 | Annotations for tapes 1-55, which include information about sound quality, physical information about the tape, and a list of topics presented throughout the interview | |
| 10 | Annotations for tapes 56-124 and tapes 1, 13, and 20 from the second set of tapes, which include information about sound quality, physical information about the tape, and a list of topics presented throughout the interview | |
| 10 | Biographies of most interviewees | |
| Box/Folder | ||
| 11/1 | Event flier: "The Greaves Interviews: A celebration of Gary Greaves' work in gathering the stories of Seattle" | 2014 |
| 11/2 | Book proposal to Sasquatch Books | 1992 |
| 11/3 | Timelines of Seattle history | undated |
| 11/4 | Name lists | undated |
| 11/5 | Civil rights/activism: interview transcripts | undated |
| 11/6 | Civil rights/activism: correspondence, notes, and ephemera | 1960-1993 |
| 11/7 | Asian communities: interview transcripts | undated |
| 11/8 | Physical Seattle: interview transcripts | undated |
| 11/9 | Arriving in Seattle- Finding a home and job: interview transcripts | undated |
| 11/10 | The future: interview transcripts | undated |
| 11/11 | Housing: interview transcripts | undated |
| 11/12 | Streets/transportation: interview transcripts | undated |
| 11/13 | Education: interview transcripts | undated |
| 11/14 | Jobs: interview transcripts | undated |
| 11/15 | Color-coded interview transcripts (all topics) 1 of 2 | undated |
| 11/16 | Color-coded interview transcripts (all topics) 2 of 2 | undated |
| 11/17 | Unsorted interview transcripts | undated |
| 11/18 | Oral history notes | undated |
| 11/19 | Outlines, notes, and drafts for book | undated |
| 11/20 | Notebook: contains notes about city council, county council, and protests | undated |
| 11/21 | Notebook: contains notes about civil rights | undated |
| 11/22 | Notebook: contains notes about Jackson Street, the Cold War on UW's campus, social welfare, and poverty | undated |
| 11/23 | Notebook: contains notes about Eastlake, Fremont, Magnolia, Lake City, parks, and real estate | undated |
| Box | ||
| 11 | Audio disc: Bayley, Christopher T. | 1992 |
| 11 | Audio disc: DeBarnardis, David | 1985-1995 |
| 11 | Audio disc: Finn, Chris | 1985-1995 |
| 11 | Audio disc: Gogerty, Bob (side a and b) | 1992 |
| 11 | Audio disc: Hayasaka, Phil; Hayasaka, Lois (side a and b)
(not available online)
No release form for Lois Hayasaka found
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circa 1990 |
| 11 | Audio disc: Howell, Lem (side a and b)
Listen to the audio recording of
this interview on the Libraries Digital Collections website.
|
1985-1995 |
| 11 | Audio disc: Hundley, Walt (side a and b) (not available
online)
No release form found
|
1985-1995 |
| 11 | Audio disc: Irigon, Frank (not available online) | 1991 |
| 11 | Audio disc: Kirkwood Sr., Roderick (side a and b) | 1992 |
| 11 | Audio disc: Lamphere, Phyllis (not available online) | 1992 |
| 11 | Audio disc: Langstaff, Marion (not available online) | 1985-1995 |
| 11 | Audio disc: Langstaff, Marion; Langstaff, Russell (not available online) | 1992 |
| 11 | Audio disc: Martin, Joe | 1992 |
| 11 | Audio disc: Miller, John | 1992 |
| 11 | Audio disc: Otani, Tim (not available online)
No release form found
|
undated |
| 11 | Audio disc: Rash, David (side a and b) | 1985-1995 |
| 11 | Audio disc: Rice, Norm | 1992 |
| 11 | Audio disc: Rochestor, Junius (not available online) | 1991 |
| 11 | Audio disc: Santos, Bob (not available online) | 1992 |
| 11 | Audio disc: Street, Jim | 1992 |
| 11 | Audio disc: Uhlman, Wesley | 1991 |
| 11 | Audio disc: Wheeler, Roger | 1992 |
| 11 | Audio disc: Woo, Ben; Woo, Ruth (side a and b) | 1985-1995 |
| 11 | Audio disc: Yarbrough, Arline | 1992 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- City planning--Washington (State)--Seattle--20th century--History--Sources
- Civic leaders--Washington (State)--Seattle--Interviews
- Civil rights workers--Washington (State)--Seattle--Interviews
- Community activists--Washington (State)--Seattle--Interviews
- Historians--Washington (State)--Seattle--Interviews
- Labor leaders--Washington (State)--Seattle--Interviews
- Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington)
- Political activists--Washington (State)--Seattle--Interviews
- Political participation--Washington (State)--Seattle--20th century--History--Sources
- Politicians--Washington (State)--Seattle--Interviews
- Public opinion--Washington (State)--Seattle
- Social action--Washington (State)--Seattle--20th century--History--Sources
Personal Names
- Greaves, Gary, 1951-2009--Archives
Geographical Names
- Seattle (Wash.)--History--Sources
- Seattle (Wash.)--Politics and government--20th century--History--Sources
- Seattle (Wash.)--Race relations--20th century--History--Sources
- Seattle (Wash.)--Social conditions--20th century--History--Sources
Other Creators
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Personal Names
- Fraser, Clara (interviewee)
- Lippmann (interviewee)
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