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The Seattle movement was part of the wider Civil Rights Movement, taking place in Seattle, Washington in the 1960s. The movement was reliant on several intersecting movements led by Filipino Americans , Japanese Americans , Chinese Americans , Jews , Latinos , and Native Americans , and the working class . [ 1 ]
Seattle today is physically similar to the Seattle of the 1960s, while the demographics have begun to shift over time. It is still filled with single-family households, with whites making up 64.9% of the population (down from a high of 91.6% in 1960), Asians 16.3%, two or more races 8.8%, Black 6.8%, and Hispanic 7.2%.
Seattle industry did slightly better than the national average during the rest of the 1970s; nonetheless the boom decades of the 1950s and 1960s had been brought to a decisive end. The State Hotel and Delmar Building, one of the many century-old buildings in Pioneer Square .
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Late night horror programs had become immensely popular during the 1960s, so KIRO-TV decided to tap into a market virtually untouched by the Pacific Northwest stations at the time. Nightmare Theatre was conceptualized by Joe Towey , who not only functioned as the director of The J.P. Patches Show for its entire twenty-three years, but who also ...
Regular vaudeville and drag shows were held there with singers dressed in drag. It was a hotspot in the post war period with service-persons, but in the 1960s the military made most gay establishments in Seattle off-limits. In the 1960s and 1970s new gay Seattle hotspots such as the Mocambo, [3] the Golden Horseshoe and the Golden Crown opened ...
In the 1960s, Colacurcio opened topless clubs in Seattle and skimmed money. [3] In the 1970s, Colacurcio met with Bonanno crime family member Salvatore "Bill" Bonanno in Yakima, Washington to discuss a business relationship. When questioned about the meeting, Frank Colacurcio replied with "I went to Yakima to pick hot peppers, but I didn’t ...