Postcard - Seattle, Washington

"The University of Washington Stadium in Seattle, home of the Huskies, has a seating capacity of 56,000. Its unique Lake Washington shore location permits access not only by conventional transportation but also by boat and seaplane. The lower campus is in the foreground and the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge in the background."

1970s. The bottom half of the image was part of the site for the Alaska-Pacific-Yukon Exposition of 1909.

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Olympia, Washington

Favorite Movie Quotes: Licence to Kill

"He disagreed with something that ate him."

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Something in the vent fascinates Charlie

24 Hour Zine Thing, Olympia, Washington

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Olympia, Washington

July 5

"This is no time for mirth or laughter

The cold grey dawn of the morning after."

From: The Chewelah Independent, July 2, 1909

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Budd Inlet and Olympia, Washington

Postcard - Seattle, Washington

"University of Washington at game time. University of Washington Stadium -- Home of the Huskies. With a seating capacity of 58,000, the Stadium's open end overlooks Lake Washington and the Cascade Mountains beyond. Five thousand fans travel to football games via boats, which dock on the Lake Washington perimeter of the campus."

1970s.

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Budd Inlet and Olympia, Washington

Favorite Movie Quotes: Hulk

"We're going to have to watch that temper of yours"

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An ominously empty bench along the Fetid Lake of Doom

Olympia, Washington

Postcard - Seattle, Washington

"Beautifully situated on Lake Washington in Seattle is the modern Stadium of the University of Washington and the Hec Edmundson Pavilion, Home of the Huskies."

Late 1950s/early 1960s

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Favorite Movie Quotes: The Holcroft Covenant

"And you have a gun and it is pointed at me and you are certifiably insane. But I must admit it does add a certain urgency to the situation."

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Tumwater, Washington

Two Futurologists in 1893

The following article was found in the Feb. 6, 1893 issue of the Spokane Daily Chronicle. Two noted writers of the day, T. DeWitt Talmage and Ella Wheeler Wilcox, were invited to try their hand at a bit of futurology and predict what life will be like a century later.

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Tumwater, Washington

Postcard - Seattle, Washington

"University of Washington and Evergreen Point Floating bridge. In this the southern part of the campus the dominating feature is the Health Sciences which includes Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy."

1970s.

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Olympia, Washington

Postcard - Seattle, Washington

"University of Washington. This aerial view shows Lake Washington and the Evergreen Point Floating bridge in the background."

1970s.

That Gothic structure near the center of the image and above the Red Square is Suzzallo Library, which is not only the graduate library but was also home to the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. To give you an idea of how captivating it was to be a student in this institution, the nearly 200 pages of my monster comic Assorted Thoughts on Insanity was almost entirely composed while enduring lectures in this delightful program.

After attending undergrad at the wild and experimental Evergreen State College in the 1970s, going to the UW was like stepping back into high school. But I did enjoy being on a large academic campus in a major city.

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Mud Bay

Thurston County, Washington

Postcard - Seattle, Washington

"The aerial view of the University of Washington Campus shows the School of Medicine and the University Hospital on Portage Bay, and the main campus complex behind."

1970s.

The campus and neighborhood just above that patch of green top center was my world 1980-1982. Just to the left is University Avenue, "The Ave." One day I ran into Lynda Barry on The Ave. and she pointed me to a print shop where you could reduce and enlarge images by yourself on a photocopier. At the time that was a major technological change for us independent pressers.

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The Fabs hard at work doing what they do best

Postcard - Seattle, Washington

"Seattle, Washington. University of Washington Medical and Hospital Center is located on Portage Bay. The Health Sciences complex is one of the nation's most modern medical teaching and research centers. Open-heart surgery and the artificial kidney are two of many medical miracles developed by researchers at the center. U. of W. 'Husky' Stadium is on the extreme right."

1970s. Any postcard that uses the words "artificial kidney" is an instant collector's item!

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Hettie and Buster

13 year-old siblings

Favorite Movie Quotes: Goodfellas

"Anything I wanted was a phone call away. Free cars. The keys to a dozen hideout flats all over the city. I'd bet twenty, thirty grand over a weekend and then I'd either blow the winnings in a week or go to the sharks to pay back the bookies. Didn't matter. It didn't mean anything. When I was broke, I would go out and rob some more. We ran everything. We paid off cops. We paid off lawyers. We paid off judges. Everybody had their hands out. Everything was for the taking. And now it's all over. And that's the hardest part. Today everything is different. There's no action, have to wait around like everyone else. Can't even get decent food. Right after I got here, I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce, and I got egg noodles and ketchup. I'm an average nobody. Get to live the rest of my life like a schnook."

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Tumwater, Washington

Pearl Bartruff, Washington State Female Cartoonist in the 1920s Had to Fight

The following article is from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 3, 1977, p. C3. I love the fact it quotes the great Ray Collins.

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Monkey Parts Display