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| Title | Safety patrol members on train at Playland Amusement Park, Bitter Lake, June 11, 1949 |
| Photographer | Rote, Clarence J.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1949 |
| Caption | In June 1949, members of Seattle's Junior Safety Patrol enjoyed their annual outing at Playland Amusement Park, a North Seattle institution from 1930 to 1961. Boys and girls from every elementary, middle, and high school in the city visited the Mystery House, rode the Dipper and Dodgem cars and tried their luck at the shooting gallery.
This photo, taken during the 1949 safety patrol trip to Playland Amusement Park, shows a group of children waving from the train as they ride around the grounds. The Dipper roller coaster can be seen in the background. |
| Notes | Handwritten on negative: School patrol at Playland, 6-11-49.
Handwritten on sleeve: Seattle - schools - safety patrol.
Caption information source: P-I research files.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): June 11, 1949. |
| Subjects | Amusement rides--Washington (State)--Seattle; Amusement parks--Washington (State)--Seattle; Miniature railroads--Washington (State)--Seattle; School safety patrols--Washington (State)--Seattle; Children--Washington (State)--Seattle; Roller coasters--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Bitter Lake (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | PI25807 |
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| 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. |
