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A Hooverville in Seattle, 1933. Hoovervilles were shanty towns built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States. They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was President of the United States during the onset of the Depression and was widely blamed for it. The term was coined by Charles Michelson. [1]
During the Great Depression, Interbay was the site of one of Seattle's Hoovervilles. [10] From 1941 into the early 1970s, Smith Cove served as a supply depot for the United States Navy, before returning to use as a civilian port. A few buildings and warehouses can still be found on the site that trace back to that time, including Quarters A ...
The Great Depression in Washington State Project is a multimedia web resource based at the University of Washington in Seattle. Created in the context of renewed economic hard times in 2009, the Project includes essays, maps, digitized newspaper articles and hundreds of rare photographs from the 1930s. [1]
English: Hooverville on Seattle waterfront, 1933. Alhambra Stucco Company at left was apparently at 3155 Elliott Ave, roughly even with the end of Denny Way (which doesn't quite make it west to Elliott; it ends at Western Ave.
Location of Seattle in King County and Washington. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Seattle, Washington. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the city of Seattle, Washington, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates ...
The name "Skid Road" was in use in Seattle by the 1850s when the city's historic Pioneer Square neighborhood began to expand from its commercial core. [7] The first homeless person in Seattle was a Massachusetts sailor named Edward Moore, who was found in a tent on the waterfront in 1854.
(The Center Square) – Seattle voters have approved the largest tax proposal in city history, with revenue going toward transportation needs. Tuesday night results show the levy receiving 67% of ...
During World War II, the Hooverville was razed to make way for a huge supply depot run by the Army Quartermaster Corps, and after the war it became a base for the U.S. Coast Guard. As of 2003, the site was the location for several large container shipping terminals. Skinner & Eddy's Plant No. 1, meanwhile, has become part of Seattle's SoDo ...