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Photo: 300,000 People Celebrate NBA Champion SuperSonics in Downtown Seattle in 1979
The Seattle SuperSonics defeated the Washington Bullets in the 1979 NBA Finals. Is another Sonics victory parade is Seattle's future?
This photograph appeared on the front page of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on June 5, 1979. A crowd estimated at 300,000 in a city of 493,000 residents thronged downtown Seattle the day before to celebrate the Seattle SuperSonics victory over the Washington Bullets on June 1, giving Seattle its only National Basketball Association championship. This view…
Celebrating the Photographer Who Chronicled Seattles African-American Community for Six Decades
"On the Spot: The Photographs of Al Smith" opens this month at MOHAI and will run until June 2018.
FOCAL POINT: Al Smith photographed singer Vivian Dandridge (above), older sister of Dorothy Dandridge, at Seattle’s China Pheasant restaurant in 1953. This article appears in print in the November 2017 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Albert Joseph Septimus Al Smith grew up above a grocery store in Seattle, the son of a couple…
Life & Style: Thought for Food
MOHAIs six-course 'Edible City' will examine how, what and why Seattle eats.
SHOW OF HANDS. Who remembers Yeslers Cookhouse? Long before Tom Douglas and Ethan Stowell and Josh Henderson made the chefs trade a cult of celebrity, long before fishmongers were tossing salmon at Pike Place Market and long before farm to table was a food-industry cliche, Yeslers Cookhouse was offering sustenance to the people of Seattle….