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37th Avenue, 1908: What’s Left?
This 1908 photo of Columbia City was taken looking north along 37th Avenue from Dawson Street at the foot of Hitt’s Hill. It is a...
Dismantling Racism: October 27, 2020 Presentation
Watch a presentation on voting rights, voter suppression, and disenfranchisement that results from institutional racism and racist...
Eugene Coleman: Oral History
Abstract: Mr.Coleman discusses buying a house and growing up in Rainier Valley, working in an Alaskan cannery and leisure time activities...
Rainier Valley’s Taylor Mill ReVisited
Discover the legacy of the Taylor Mill Company, a pivotal player in Seattle's early timber industry.
Dismantling Racism: Living Black in Seattle
The discussion will touch on issues of police brutality and accountability, the current swell of activism and street protests, everyday...
Ruby Chow: Profile
Growing up the eldest of ten children with a single mother, Ruby Chow learned the power of ordinary people helping each other out....
This Old Kitchen: Red Velvet Cake
When our Food Stories cookbook was being written we compiled not just recipes but recorded oral histories from people and these oral...
Dismantling Racism: Black Lives Matter
Change is now. The video documenting George Floyd’s murder has shaken the world. America’s silence has been broken and voices have been...
Dismantling Racism : May 27, 2020 | Presentation
Please join us for an online talk with David J. Jepsen, author of “Contested Boundaries: A New Pacific Northwest History” on the primary...
Kubota Garden Virtual Tour with Don Brooks
Join retired Head Gardener Don Brooks as he gives us a virtual tour of Kubota Garden. This was recorded for our 2020 Annual Meeting.
De Facto Dry in Columbia City, 1893 - 1914
During Columbia City’s early years, Washington struggled with the prohibition issue. Temperance advocates had begun their work back in...
Dinnertime in Garlic Gulch
Thursday and Sunday was spaghetti day Rainier Valley’s Italian heritage goes back a hundred years or more. Back then, the Valley was...
Garlic Gulch Wedding
Rainier Valley’s Italian heritage goes more than a hundred years. Back then, the Valley was largely forests and farms, with the streetcar...
From Past to Present: Columbia City's Rich Heritage
RVHS Founder Buzz Anderson with KUOW radio host Steve Scher discuss Columbia City history on 1.26.2001
Hitt’s Fireworks: 1905-1976
Fireworks in Columbia City Thomas Gabriel Hitt, known as T.G. Hitt, was born in London in 1874. He studied chemistry at Westminster...
A Ticket to the Pennant: A Tale of Baseball in Seattle
Before the Seattle Mariners, there were the Seattle Rainiers who are playing for the pennant in this story that shows how baseball unites...
Thanksgiving Turkeys at Bob's Quality Meats
by Mikala Woodward, Excerpted from Rainier Valley Food Stories Cookbook Butchering seems to run in families. Jim Ackley, owner of Bob’s...
Coffee Culture
Excerpts from Rainier Valley Food Stories Cookbook Coffee History Coffee is believed to originate in Ethiopia. One story goes that Kaldi...
An Homage to Columbia School
"It's hard for anyone, even the most pessimistic of pessimists, to spend more than a few minutes in Central Park without feeling that he...
Roy Olmstead: Seattle's "Rum King"
On March 22, 1920, federal agents nabbed a tugboat crew unloading Canadian whiskey on a beach near Edmonds. Prohibition had been in...
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