thinking of old Washington state...
In October 1931, an unemployed lumberjack by the name of Jesse Jackson and twenty others started building shacks on vacant land owned by the Port of Seattle located a few blocks south of Pioneer Square and named the shantytown Hooverville in sarcastic honor of President Herbert Hoover on whose was in office when the Great Depression began. A census taken in 1934 counted 632 men and 7 women living in 479 shanties, with ages ranging from 15 to 73. Hooverville remained in existence until 1941 when a shack elimination program began and the shack towns were eliminated.
Japanese farmers were working in rural King County, Washington State as early as 1883. By 1920, they supplied seventy-five percent of the vegetables for King County residents.
Photo of Fred Matthiesen & F.F. Coffin with largest nugget found in Yukon, ca. 1888. Fred Matthiesen, a Rainier Valley resident, went to the Yukon in 1897 as one of the 10,000 hopeful miners who went north in that first year of the gold rush. This gold nugget was found "below Upper Discovery Dominion Creek."
Sephardic fish market, Seattle ca. 1918. Solomon "Sam" Calvo is the mustachioed proprietor, standing in front of the Waterfront Fish Market and Oyster Company at Pike Place Market.
In October 1931, an unemployed lumberjack by the name of Jesse Jackson and twenty others started building shacks on vacant land owned by the Port of Seattle located a few blocks south of Pioneer Square and named the shantytown Hooverville in sarcastic honor of President Herbert Hoover on whose was in office when the Great Depression began. A census taken in 1934 counted 632 men and 7 women living in 479 shanties, with ages ranging from 15 to 73. Hooverville remained in existence until 1941 when a shack elimination program began and the shack towns were eliminated.
Japanese farmers were working in rural King County, Washington State as early as 1883. By 1920, they supplied seventy-five percent of the vegetables for King County residents.
Photo of Fred Matthiesen & F.F. Coffin with largest nugget found in Yukon, ca. 1888. Fred Matthiesen, a Rainier Valley resident, went to the Yukon in 1897 as one of the 10,000 hopeful miners who went north in that first year of the gold rush. This gold nugget was found "below Upper Discovery Dominion Creek."
Sephardic fish market, Seattle ca. 1918. Solomon "Sam" Calvo is the mustachioed proprietor, standing in front of the Waterfront Fish Market and Oyster Company at Pike Place Market.
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