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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]
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.
Item 191876, Engineering Department Photographic Negatives (Record Series 2613-07), Seattle Municipal Archives. English: Hooverville on the Seattle tideflats, Seattle, Washington, U.S., 1933. Point of view is at the foot of Atlantic St. near the Skinner and Eddy Shipyards.
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 ...
He published three books of sketches and commentary, Seattle Cityscape (1962), Market Sketchbook (1968) and Seattle Cityscape #2 (1973), and co-designed three Seattle parks with landscape architect Richard Haag. One of those, Victor Steinbrueck Park in Pike Place Market, originally Market Park (1981–1982), was renamed in his honor after his ...
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 ...
Bell Street Terminal, circa 1915 South Lander Street facilities on the East Waterway of the Duwamish, circa 1915 Hooverville on the Seattle tideflats, 1933 Pier 69, the present-day Headquarters for the Port of Seattle. The Port of Seattle is a public agency that is in King County, Washington.
The Seattle Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Company was established in 1888, ... the area between Dearborn and Connecticut Street was Seattle's largest [16] Hooverville.