Seattle Washington Skyline Space Needle WA Plaza Hotel 1st Nat'l Bank Postcard

The Washington Plaza Hotel opened June 1969 located at 1900 5th Avenue. in Seattle on the site of the old Orpheum Theatre. It is the first luxury hotel built in downtown since 1929. In 1981, the Washington Plaza Hotel was renamed the Westin Hotel. A twin tower, the north tower, was completed in 1982.

In 1969, Seattle First National Bank, also known as Seafirst built a headquarters tower at 1001 Fourth Ave. In September 1983, the bank began to use the Seafirst Bank brand for advertising purposes while still keeping Seattle-First National Bank as the legal name for the bank. Ceased operations in 1999.

Plaza 600 Office Building located 600, Stewart St was built in 1969.

Seattle Opera is an opera company based in Seattle, Washington. It was founded in 1963 by Glynn Ross, who served as its first general director until 1983.

Mike Roberts ( 1905-1989) is famously known as America's Postcard King due to his impressive career in color photography and printing that spanned more than 50 years. He began working in a photo studio in San Bernardino when he was young and had the opportunity to photograph figures like Albert Einstein and Amelia Earhart. He also photographed scenes from the 1939 World's Fair in San Francisco to be published in The Saturday Evening Post, Fortune, and Life and was later commissioned to take color photographs for a Standard Oil marketing campaign after WWII with the idea that color photos would be given to people who were filling their cars up with gas so they would want to take trips to the places in the photos, using more gas. Mike's son, Bob Roberts, said that his father had a bunch of photographs left over from the commission and decided to turn them into postcards.

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