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Northwest Woodworkers Gallery (formerly Northwest Gallery of Fine Woodworking) [1] in downtown Seattle, is the oldest and largest woodworking cooperative in the United States. Started in 1980 in the Pioneer Square neighborhood by a small group of studio furniture craftsmen, the gallery has grown and fostered the resurgence of the Northwest ...
Comic books. Curbed Seattle has described Golden Age Collectables as "Seattle's longest-running comic book shop" and "a popular tourist-photo spot because of a convenient Pike Place Market location and a selfie-ready Batman statue outside". [1] Thrillist has called the shop as "a hodgepodge of nerdy/kitschy knick knacks, comic books and bric-a ...
Location of King County in Washington. The following properties and districts in King County, Washington, United States, are on the National Register of Historic Places. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map. [1]
The Bon Marché was founded in 1890 by Edward and Josephine Nordhoff, who had moved to Seattle from Chicago. Edward Nordhoff was a German immigrant who had worked for the Louvre Department Store in Paris, which competed with the Maison of Aristide Boucicaut "Au Bon Marché" (now part of the LVMH group).
This 1922 postcard shows Ye Olde Curiosity Shop in its home at that time on Colman Dock.Today, this site is part of Pier 50, the Washington State Ferry Terminal. The postcard shows a variety of artifacts on display in front of the shop, including whale jaw-bones ("1 ton each, 22½ feet, largest in U.S."), a giant clam shell ("weighs 161 pounds, from Equator"), a hat worn by Chief Seattle, and ...
International Woodworkers of America, Local 3-101 Records (Everett, Wash.), 1935–1987. 23 cubic feet. At the Labor Archives of Washington State, University of Washington Libraries Special Collections. Records of International Woodworkers of America Association are held by Simon Fraser University's Special Collections and Rare Books
William C Speidel (February 11, 1912 – May 3, 1988) was a columnist for The Seattle Times and a self-made historian who wrote the books Sons of the Profits and Doc Maynard, The Man Who Invented Seattle about the people who settled and built Seattle, Washington.
Woodcraft Turn for Troops program began in 2004. [35] It provides free pen kits to retail stores for customers and employees to turn the wooden pens, which are then distributed by Woodcraft corporate employees to US soldiers who are actively deployed or in rehabilitation facilities. [36] By 2012, Woodcraft distributed 97,717 hand turned wooden ...