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Columbia City’s Sweetest Places: The Columbia Confectionery
This was the sweetest place in Columbia City in the 1920’s and ‘30s. It was a regular stop for all the school kids on their way to and...
Grading of Rainier Valley's Streets
The location of the grading in progress was on Orcas Street in Hillman City, almost a block west of Rainier Avenue in front of St....
Bill Phalen's Parade
Bill Phalen was an organizer. He was also a professional baseball player, a politician (Columbia City's mayor), and he started Columbia...
Brighton Beach: The "New" Brighton High School
The above photograph was one of four donated to the Historical Society last year that contained an image of the second Brighton...
Streetcar Wreck at Willow Street
The date was April 30, 1910 when a runaway coal car hit streetcar #102 on the "Seattle, Renton & Southern Ry." streetcar line. Two...
Rainier Valley Dairy
Smith M. Wilson started in the dairy business on Beacon Hill in 1916. There were many small dairy farms throughout the sparsely settled...
Taylor's Mill
Taylor's Mill shown in the photo was located on Lake Washington, one mile south of Rainier Beach near the present Seattle City limits. ...
Car #20 at Rainier Beach Station
In this early Rainier Valley photo, taken about 1905, car number 20 of the "Seattle & Renton RY" pauses at Rainier Beach Station which...
Modern Woodmen of America
The members of the Modern Woodmen of America drill team are standing at attention, axes in hand, posing for the photographer. They are...
Two Franklin High School Letter Girls
The female high school athletes are closing out basketball season and looking toward the track and softball teams gearing up for spring....
Mount Baker Club: 80 Years Strong
Dances, masquerades and a rose show were among its first-year events. The Mount Baker Clubhouse is 85 years old this year. (1999). The...
Memories of a Rainier Valley Street Car Operator
Charlie Fletcher was the last surviving motorman from the Rainier Valley Street car line. Before he passed away in October of 1994 at the...
Dugdale Park: Baseball was a Rainier Valley Tradition
This photograph shows Dugdale Baseball Park at Rainier Avenue and McClellan Street, home of the Seattle Indians of the Pacific Coast...
Reflections and Celebrations of Days Gone By
The holidays bring back many memories of family celebrations and the way things were when we were children. Neighborhoods also have...
Car #20 in Columbia City
The date is 1902. Car #20 of the Seattle, Renton & Southern RY., traveling southbound, has just crested the hill between Genesee and...
Brighton School
South Seattle has many schools with interesting histories. Our children attend newer, rebuilt schools, such as Muir and Whitworth, or...
Columbia Mill
This photo shows the Columbia Mill that was built in 1890, the same year the streetcar tracks were laid starting at Railroad Avenue on...
Franklin Band: Music on Skis = Spills and Dents
The date is January 1938. The event is the dedication ceremonies for the new Snoqualmie Ski Bowl near Hyak Station at the east entrance...
Rainier Valley's First Street Cars
The upper, 1891 photo was taken in Columbia City, the year the first lots were sold there and a year after the streetcar line was put in....
Columbia Library Under Construction
It took a lot of lobbying by the local citizenry to convince the downtown officials to build a library in Columbia City. With grants from...
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