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| Title | Scoreboard in Sick's Stadium outfield, Seattle, 1946 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1946 |
| Caption | Businessman Emil Sick bought the Seattle Indians baseball team in 1937 and renamed it the Seattle Rainiers. He also started work on a new steel and concrete baseball stadium in Rainier Valley, south of downtown. Sick's Seattle Stadium opened in June 1938. For years, fans crowded the stadium or watched from the slopes overlooking the outfield. By the 1960s, fewer people were going to the games. The stadium was torn down in the 1970s. In the 1990s, the site was occupied by an Eagle Hardware store. |
| Notes | Franklin High School can be seen in the background of the photo.
Signs in image: Gold Shield Coffee - Always Good All Ways. James Wheeler Real Estate. Longines Watches. Go Farther Than Ever - Signal Gasoline. Read It in the Morning Post-Intelligencer - Everybody's Newspaper. Centennial - Nearly Twice as Much for Your Money! Drink Squirt - Cammarano Bros.
Handwritten on sleeve: Baseball - Seattle Rainiers (vs San Diego).
Caption by MOHAI staff.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): September 6, 1946. |
| Subjects | Stadiums--Washington (State)--Seattle; Schools--Washington (State)--Seattle; Billboards--Washington (State)--Seattle; Sick's Stadium (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Mount Baker (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | PI26705 |
| 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. |
