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.
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.
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as told by politicians and business leaders, and the planners who have seen roads and bridges approved -- and then rescinded.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
The collection was digitized in 2014 and most recordings are
accessible online:
Open to all users. Most interviews can be accessed on the Libraries' Digital Collections website. All other interviews may be accessed on the Virual Vault in the Special Collections Reading Room. Contact repository for details.
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.
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.
Restrictions exist on reproduction, quotation, or publication. Contact repository for details.
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.
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.
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)
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).
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)
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)
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: city development (0:30), crime (4:00), homelessness (8:30), Downtown Emergency Service Center (13:00).
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).
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.
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)
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).
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).
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.
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).
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).
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).
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).
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.
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)
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)
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.
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
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).
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.
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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.
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).
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).
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).
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)
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.
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)
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)
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).
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).
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).
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: homelessness and shelters in Seattle (10:00).
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: punk bands (7:00), drugs (40:00). Side Two: music and art (3:00).
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: planning commission and road issues (00:30), apartment zoning (3:30), residential and industrial areas (15:00).
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.
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).
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.
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.
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).
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).
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.
Topics of discussion include, on Side Two: commerical and residential zoning laws (00:30), Forward Thrust (3:45), regional rail (6:00).
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).
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).
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).
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.
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,
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).
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.
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: cooperation among Asian communities (1:00), access to services (4:30), family structure (5:30).
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).
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).
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: zoning for residential developments (3:00), parks (7:00), Denny regrade development plan (35:30).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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,
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).
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)
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)
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).
Topics of discussion include, on Side One: Seattle government as a business clique (39:45), Seattle Planning Commission (42:30), state representative (43:45).
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).
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)
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.
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).
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).
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.
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..
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).
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).
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.
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.
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).
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
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.
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
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).
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).
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).
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).
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.
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).
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.
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.
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).
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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).
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).
Paul Dorpat is a Seattle historian and acclaimed photographer. In 1967, he founded and edited the
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.
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.
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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.
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).
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).
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).
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).
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.
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.
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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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).
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).
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).
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.
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.
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.
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).
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).
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).
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).
Lucy Dougall is a peace activist and educator. She is the author of
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.
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.
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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.
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).
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.
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).
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).
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.
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)
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)
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)
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).
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).
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).
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.
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)
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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)
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)
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.
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
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).
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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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.
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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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).
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).
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).
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).
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.
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
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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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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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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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Frank Irigon was an Asian American student activist. In 1972, he co-founded the Seattle-based periodical,
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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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