Downtowns

Downtowns
Author: Michael A. Burayidi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2013-10-16
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1134573391

This collection evaluates the various strategies that different cities have used when attempting to economically revitalize downtown areas.

Downtown Safeway

Downtown Safeway
Author: Washington (State). Department of Ecology
Publisher:
Total Pages: 3
Release: 2012
Genre: Groundwater
ISBN:

Texas Merchant

Texas Merchant
Author: Victoria L. Buenger
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2008-04-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781603440547

Customers also found a stunning array of goods - fur coats and canned tuna, pianos and tractors - and an environment that combined the spectacular with the familiar. But the story of Leonards goes beyond the store and the man who made it. For Marvin Leonard, downtown Fort Worth and Leonards were always intertwined. Leonards gave Fort Worth a special identity, a distinctiveness, and an attraction to the city's center. When Tandy bought Leonards and later sold it to Dillard's, Fort Worth's image and character changed.

A Hundred Little Hitlers

A Hundred Little Hitlers
Author: Elinor Langer
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2004-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780312423636

Chronicles the events surrounding the trial of Kenneth Mieske, a white racists accused of killing an Ethiopian, and discusses how the incident uncovered the neo-Nazi movement in the United States.

Echoes of Exclusion and Resistance

Echoes of Exclusion and Resistance
Author: Laura J. Arata
Publisher: Washington State University Press
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2021-11-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1636820492

Like the rest of the American West, the mid-Columbia region has always been diverse. Its history mirrors common multiracial narratives, but with important nuances. In the late 1880s, Chinese railroad workers were segregated to East Pasco, a practice that later extended to all non-whites and continued for decades. Kennewick residents became openly proud of their status as a “lily-white” town. In Echoes of Exclusion and Resistance, the third Hanford Histories volume, four scholars--Laura Arata, Robert Bauman, Robert Franklin, and Thomas E. Marceau--draw from Hanford History Project, Atomic Heritage Foundation, and Afro-American Community Cultural and Educational Society oral histories to focus on the experiences of non-white groups whose lives were deeply impacted by the Hanford Site. Linked in ways they likely could not know, each group resisted the segregation and discrimination they encountered, and in the process, challenged the region’s dominant racial norms. The Wanapum, evicted by Hanford Nuclear Reservation construction, relate stories of their people, as well as their responses to dislocation and forced evacuation. Unable to interact with the ancient landscapes and utilize the natural resources of their traditional lands, they suffered painful, irretrievable losses. Early arrivals to the town of Pasco, the Yamauchi family built the American dream--including successful businesses and highly educated children--only to have their aspirations crushed by World War II Japanese-American internment. Thousands of African Americans migrated to the area for wartime jobs and discovered rampant segregation. Through negotiations, demonstrations, and protests, they fought the region’s ingrained racial disparity. During the early years of the Cold War, Black women, mostly from East Texas, also relocated to work at Hanford. They offer a unique perspective on employment, discrimination, family, and faith.

Everyday Acts & Small Subversions

Everyday Acts & Small Subversions
Author: Anndee Hochman
Publisher: The Eighth Mountain Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1994
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780933377257

"Anndee Hochman helps us to imagine the new possibilities for relationships, rituals and language ... and to understand that when we throw away that rule book we are not alone."--Ms.¶"A wonderful trove of experimentation and possibility."--The Women's Review of Books¶"This book is a homecoming!"--Philadelphia Daily News

Alaska

Alaska
Author: Traveler T Terpening
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2010
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9781841622989

The only guide to feature the destinations in Alaska accessible by rail, car and ferry written by an author who grew up in Alaska and continues to live there today.

Bellevue

Bellevue
Author: Eastside Heritage Center
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2014-06-02
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1439645450

Bellevue has grown, in just a few generations, from a small farming town into an important urban center and economic hub, with the foundations for this success being laid in the two decades following World War II. The opening of the Mercer Island floating bridge, in 1940, promoted the settlement of the lands to the east of Lake Washington during the population and housing boom of the 1950s and 1960s, and Bellevue became the primary commercial center for these vibrant new communities. Families flocked to the shiny subdivisions, with new schools, shopping centers, churches, and parks springing up right behind. But it was strong political, business, and civic leadership that kept Bellevue from being just another sprawling suburb. As business began to push outward from Seattle, Bellevue was able to grow gracefully and preserve its sense of place. It remains a wonderful community for families from around the globe and a place that longtime residents are reluctant to leave.