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| Title | Skagg's Safeway store, Seattle, 1938 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | 1938 |
| Caption | Skagg's Safeway store at 5200 Rainier. Grapefruit are 6 for 19 cents, piece bacon is 25 cents a pound, sliced bacon is 17 cents a pound, pork roast is 19 cents a pound, and butter is 22 cents a pound. A grocery clerk's wages were $15 a week, a good rate. Tuition at the University of Washington was $15 a quarter, and streetcar tokens were 3 for 25 cents with no zone fare. |
| Notes | Handwritten on verso: 1929 - Skagg's Store near Rainier & Pearl. |
| Subjects | Grocery stores--Washington (State)--Seattle
Fruit--Washington (State)--Seattle
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| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Columbia City (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Rainier Valley Historical Society Photograph Collection |
| Accession Number | 93.001.692 |
| Ordering Information | To order a copy of this photograph, please email Rvhsoffice@aol.com and mention the Accession Number. |
| Repository | Rainier Valley Historical Society, Seattle |
| Repository Collection | Hall-Summers Collection |
| Physical Description | 1 photographic print: b&w; 3 1/2 x 5 in. |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned 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. |
