Past Experience
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…
Past Experience: Most Happy Fellers
Lewis County | 1920
At least thats the presumption, since these four loggers with the West Fork Logging Company in Lewis County were among the earliest beneficiaries of health insurance in Washington state. Three years prior, a group of loggers pooled earnings to create a fund to help each other and their families with medical needs arising from injury…
Past Experience: Making the Cut
Seattle | 1916
Part of the Lake Washington Ship Canal connecting Puget Sound to Lake Union and Lake Washington, the Montlake Cut became a reality on August 26, 1916, when engineers opened a coffer dam and released water from Lake Union into the cut, above. A similar dam on the Lake Washington side was opened a few days…
Past Experience: Boeings Long History with China
Lake Union, Seattle 1916
China-born Wong Tsu, pictured in the foreground, was the first aeronautical engineer Bill Boeing hired at his fledgling airplane company. Wong, a graduate of MIT, designed the Model C bi-wing trainer, Boeings first commercial success. (The U.S. Navy bought 50.) The two-seat, open-cockpit seaplane the first all-Boeing design made its inaugural flight on November 15,…
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