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  • 2024-08-05

    Tukwila—Community at the Crossroads: The City of Tukwila Saves the Upper Duwamish Valley from Industrialization

    In the postwar decades, the Port of Seattle planned to transform the upper Duwamish Valley into a massive industrial district by straightening the river and filling its floodplains, a project that would have displaced small valley communities and caused severe environmental damage. The small City of Tukwila successfully fought back through strategic land annexations, restrictive zoning, coalition-building with state agencies, and a landmark lawsuit that challenged the Port's authority to levy a special property tax to fund the project. Tukwila's victory shaped the future of the entire King County region by preserving the valley from large-scale heavy industrialization.

  • Bette Nash

    A memorial tribute collage for Bette Nash, identified by visible on-image text reading 'In loving memory of Bette Nash.' The collage includes multiple photos spanning her career as a flight attendant, from early black-and-white uniform portraits to later in-flight service photos and formal event appearances.

  • Pan Airlines First Class Service 747 1970’s

    A flight attendant in a white blouse and decorative scarf presents an elaborate first-class meal service featuring champagne, caviar, shrimp, fruit platters, and assorted hors d'oeuvres to two passengers. The retro styling, uniform design, and photographic quality suggest this image dates from approximately the 1970s–1980s; one champagne bottle label is partially legible reading 'CHAMPAGNE,' but no airline logo or specific carrier is clearly identifiable.

  • General Motors Building, Detroit

    Black-and-white photograph of the General Motors Building in Detroit, Michigan, with the 'GENERAL MOTORS' sign clearly visible at the roofline. This large early 20th-century office complex served as GM's corporate headquarters; the image appears unrelated to Sea-Tac Airport noise policy.
  • 2024-01-25

    United Air Lines Mainliner Flight Attendants

    A group of approximately thirteen United Air Lines stewardesses in matching uniforms pose in a line in front of a United Air Lines 'Mainliner' aircraft. The photo bears a reference number (C-6836Q) in the lower right corner, suggesting it is an official company publicity photograph, likely from the 1940s based on uniform style and aircraft livery.
  • 2023-12-22

    SeaTac historical tour guide

    This SeaTac Historical Tour Guide brochure outlines 15 significant historical sites in the City of SeaTac, Washington, tracing the area's development from its origins as a Fort Steilacoom-Fort Bellingham military road corridor through early pioneer settlement, agricultural growth, and Japanese-American communities. It documents the transformation of the region into a major aviation hub, including the evolution of Bow Lake Airport into Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, which opened officially in 1947 after the Port of Seattle Commission voted to develop it into a major commercial airport serving the Puget Sound area.
  • 2023-09-08

    Vintage American Airlines Aircraft and Car at Airport

    A promotional photograph showing two women in a light blue GM convertible (watermarked 'GM') parked on the tarmac beside an American Airlines aircraft named 'Flagship Tulsa,' bearing the classic AA eagle livery with red stripe. A uniformed pilot waves from the aircraft stairs; this image relates to American Airlines operations and is unconnected to Sea-Tac Airport.
  • 2023-09-08

    Airport Observation Deck Scene

    A United Airlines aircraft (appearing to be a Douglas DC-8) taxis on the runway at Sea-Tac Airport, as seen from the public observation deck. A woman in a red coat and matching handbag leans over the railing, likely with a child, watching the aircraft. Watermark reads leonotenboom.com.
  • 2023-08-28

    King County Register of Historic Places Nomination Form: Hillgrove Cemetery

    Hillgrove Cemetery, located on 200th Street South in the Highline District of Seattle, is a historic private burial site consisting of 57 individually owned plots that serves as a significant link to the ethnic and pioneer heritage of the Highline/Des Moines area of south King County. The cemetery is surrounded on three sides by Port of Seattle land — the agency that operates Sea-Tac Airport — which erected the chain-link fence enclosing the property. Nominated to the King County Register of Historic Places, the site commemorates early settlers whose activities shaped the region's economic and civic development, including road-building, milling, transportation, and farming that contributed to what became Seattle's Pike Place Market.
  • 2023-08-28

    Nomination of Hillgrove Cemetery as a King County Historic Site

    A nomination letter from Geraldine Van Notric, a Hillgrove Cemetery Board Member, requests that Hillgrove Cemetery — located near Sea-Tac International Airport at 200th Street and 16th Ave. So. — be designated a King County Historic Site under Ordinance No. 4828. The cemetery, established with its first burial in 1900 and formally organized as an association in 1923, contains graves of pioneers who shaped the Highline area's economic development, as well as military veterans from the Civil War and World War I. The nomination emphasizes that the designation would provide community recognition and protection for the site, not serve as a request for county repair funds.