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| Title | Full downtown parking lot during Christmas shopping season, Seattle, 1954 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1954 |
| Caption | The day after Thanksgiving has always been a big shopping day in Seattle. Here at the intersection of Westlake Avenue and 7th Avenue shoppers have filled up the parking lots close to the downtown stores. |
| Notes | Signs in image read: Mobilgas - Mobiltires, Mobilubrication - Parking Office - Two hours free parking with lubrication. Ready now! - Motorola Color TV. Olympia. Rainier - Happy Holidays. Dormeyer. Dental Clinic. Anderson Florists. Home Appliances. Paulgen's Auto Supplies. Motor Ramp Garage Parking. Norbom-Snyder. Huletz Electric Co. Preservative Paints. ABC - Here now, '55 De Soto Plymouth, M.O. Anderson. Packard Sales & Service, around corner on 7th Ave. ABC Automotive Service - De Soto, Plymouth, Buick, Chrysler, Cadillac, all General Motors & Chrysler Corp. cars. Packards Sales and Service. Call MA 3500 -- Always Better Care - Complete service for all makes. Frederick & Nelson. Columbian Optical Co.
Handwritten on sleeve: Christmas - Seattle - 1954 (Shopping crowds).
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): November 26, 1954. |
| Subjects | Parking lots--Washington (State)--Seattle; Vehicle maintenance & repair--Washington (State)--Seattle; Automobile dealerships--Washington (State)--Seattle; Business districts--Washington (State)--Seattle; Commercial streets--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | PI23269 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 safety film negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from print made from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
