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| Title | Men in doorway of Rainier Valley Barber Shop and AYP Pool Room, Seattle, 1909 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | 1909 |
| Caption | This barber shop and pool room, owned by Lee Gardner and Menzo LaPorte, was located at 4866 Rainier Avenue from 1908 to 1923. The AYP refers to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, which took place on the University of Washington campus in 1909. |
| Notes | Signs on building read: AYP Pool Room. Gardner & LaPorte Fine Candies, Cigars and Tobacco. Shave 15 cents. Owl cigar, now 5 cents.
Handwritten on verso: 1909. Rainier Valley Barber shop and AYP Pool Room. LaPorte and Gardner are standing beside dog.
See accession numbers 93.001.032 and 93.001.049 for additional information. |
| Subjects | Barbershops--Washington (State)--Seattle
Billiard parlors--Washington (State)--Seattle
Gardner, Lee
LaPorte, Menzo
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| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Columbia City (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Rainier Valley Historical Society Photograph Collection |
| Accession Number | 93.001.708 |
| 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. |
