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Columbia Merchants officers under Columbia Shopping District sign, Seattle, 1950
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| Title | Columbia Merchants officers under Columbia Shopping District sign, Seattle, 1950 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | 1950 |
| Caption | The men are posing with a new Buick that was to be raffled off to promote shopping in the Columbia City neighborhood. |
| Notes | Sign in image reads: Columbia Shopping District.
Handwritten on border: 1950.
Handwritten on verso: Columbia Merchants, the car that was raffled off. Oct 6 to Dec 19 1950.
Stamped on verso: Photograph courtesy Anderson Buick Co.
Typed on document filed with image: OFFICERS and LEADERS of the COLUMBIA MERCHANTS, INC., with the GRAND PRIZE - a 1950 BUICK Special 2-door Sedanet purchased from Anderson Buick Company. Art Anderson, Grayson & Brown Hardware & Furniture Co.; Hy Funk, Columbia Food Center - President, Columbia Merchants, Inc.; C.W. Wedin, Columbia Realty Co.; Jay Jacox, Halverson's 10-cent Store; Menzo LaPorte, Rainier Valley Barber; Russ Vold, Northwest Appliance Sales & Service - Chairman, Columbia Merchants, Inc.
Shoppers of the Columbia City community, from Friday, October 6 through Tuesday, December 19, are being offered by the Columbia Merchants, Inc. and the community merchants, numerous opportunities to win this Buick and other valuable prizes by shopping "at home" in the Columbia City area. The merchants will give a ticket good for one chance on the Buick or other valuable merchandise for each $1.00 cash purchase. |
| Subjects | Business people--Washington (State)--Seattle
Automobiles--American--Washington (State)--Seattle
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 | 93.001.013 |
| 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; 8 x 10 in.; creased |
| 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. |
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