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In the 1950s, pants became very narrow, and were worn ankle-length. Pants cropped to mid-calf were houseboy pants; shorter pants, to below the knee, were called pedal-pushers. Shorts were very short in the early 1950s, and mid-thigh length Bermuda shorts appeared around 1954 and remained fashionable through the remainder of the decade. Loose ...
Shelly Bauman was born in Chicago on July 23, 1947. [1] She studied dance there until she was 16, at which time she became a runaway due to family tension. [2] She performed striptease in Chicago, Hawaii, and Florida, moving to Rainier Valley, Seattle, in 1968 to continue her profession there. [2]
In 1943, Frederick & Nelson opened a satellite store at Boeing Field at the Boeing Airplane Company's Number 2 Plant. They supported the war effort and built a loyalty among the airplane manufacturer's 47,000 employees. Frederick's also established a "Victory Post" on the main floor of the Seattle store, selling War Bonds and stamps.
San Francisco store at 50 Grant Avenue, 1912 to 1948 San Francisco store on Union Square, 1948 to 1994 Former I. Magnin store in Oakland, California. In the early 1870s, Dutch-born Mary Ann Magnin and her husband Isaac Magnin left England and settled in San Francisco. Mary Ann opened a shop in 1876 selling lotions and high-end clothing for infants.
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 ...
Rhodes Brothers was a department store located in Tacoma, Washington, originally established in 1892 as a coffee shop in downtown Tacoma by Albert, William, Henry and Charles Rhodes. In 1903, the brothers would shift into the department store business, opening in the newly built Snell Building at Broadway and 11th Street in the heart of Tacoma ...
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 ...
Colman Park, Seattle. 1950 This image of a lifeguard tower in Lake Washington at Seattle's Colman Park is part of the Seattle Municipal Archives, which contains more than 1.5 million photographic ...