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The Rainier Club was first proposed at a February 23, 1888 meeting of six Seattle civic leaders; it was formally incorporated July 25, 1888. The attendees of the original meeting were J. R. McDonald, president of the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway; John Leary, real estate developer and former Seattle mayor; Norman Kelly; R. C. Washburn, editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer; Bailey ...
This is a list of large or well-known interstate or international companies headquartered in the Seattle metropolitan area.. As of December 2021, the Seattle metropolitan area is home to ten Fortune 500 companies: Internet retailer Amazon (#2), Costco Wholesale (#12), Microsoft (#15), coffee chain Starbucks (#125), Paccar (#159), clothing merchant Nordstrom (#289), Weyerhaeuser (#387 ...
By the end of World War II, a historic decision was made by the club membership to buy the building from its owner, The Washington Athletic Club Holding Co., who had been renting the building to them since 1936 at a rate of $12,500 a month, for $1.35 million. Even though the payments would follow the same rate as the rent, the wealthy club ...
The team's fortunes improved in 1938 when Emil Sick, owner of Seattle's Rainier Brewing Company, bought the Indians from owner Bill Klepper for $100,000 and renamed them the Seattle Rainiers. He began construction of Sick's Stadium , a 15,000-seat facility on the site of old Dugdale Field. [ 10 ]
Costco memberships will be increased according to Chief Financial Officer Richard Galanti's statements in a quarterly earnings meaning.
The Norton Building has housed multiple tenants including LMN Architects, the Puget Sound Business Journal, [7] and Pacific Northern Airlines. [8] The building's 17th floor was also home to the member-only Harbor Club, which peaked at 1,000 members in the 1990s and closed on December 31, 2015. [9]
Companies headquartered in Seattle, Washington in the United States. As of 2019, Seattle is home to six Fortune 500 companies: Internet retailer Amazon (#5), coffee chain Starbucks (#121), clothing merchant Nordstrom (#196), airline Alaska Airlines (#368), travel agency Expedia Group (#374) and timberland company Weyerhaeuser (#406)
The Rainier Club, 1888–1988 (Seattle: Rainier Club, 1988) Rites of Passage: A Memoir of the Sixties in Seattle (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995) Routes: An Interpretative History of Public Transportation in Metropolitan Seattle (Seattle: Metro Transit, 1993) The Seattle Aquarium's Guide to Life in the Sea (Seattle: City of ...