Seattle City of Opportunity drives home ownership appeal
A 1917 promotion extols Seattle as a place where forty percent own homes, with low rents and plentiful land. It highlights expanding housing, sturdy jobs, and thriving industry, naming major banks, manufacturers, hotels, shipyards, and services backing a bid to attract workers and their families to buy homes.
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City OF Opportunity
de. Henry Lazzalle
H. C. Henry
A. W. Leonard
C. 3. Smith
F. K. Strave
M. F. Backus
J. D. Hoge
E. G Hughes August Mehlelhorn, Jr
T. S. Lippy
J. D. Lowman
C. H. Cobb
Chas. A. Kinnear
Frank B. Cooper
Reginald Parsons
Robert P. Oldham
Frank Waterhouse
Ole Hanson
William Pigott
John Murphy
A. Keenan
Das. Q. Clemmer
John T. Casey Lee H. Wakefield
F. J. Martin
Joshua Green
Western Smelting & Power Co
Western Smelting & Refining
Standard Furniture Co
the Rhodes Co
Frederick & Nelson Fraser-Paterson
M. A. Gottstein
MacDougall-Southwick
the GroteRankin
the Nut House
Kilbourne-Clarke Co
Brunswick-Barke-Collender Co
Black Manufacturing Co
Crescent Manufacturing Co
Lang Manufacturing Co
Hendricks Manufacturing Co. Co. C. Belknap Glass Co
Boeing Airplane Co
Centennial Mill Co
Bemis Bros. Bag Co
Rothweiler & Co
Pacific Creosoting Co
Metropolitan Building Co
Washington Hotel
Washington-Annex
Boldt’s Restaurant & Bakery Co
American Import and Export Companies
J. F. Duthie Company
Sloan Shipbuilders Corporation
Patterson-McDonald Shipbuilding Co
Ames Shipbuilding Co
Meacham & Babcock Shipbuilding Co
National Shipbuilding Co
Seattle Construction & Dry Dock Co
Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Co
Dairy and Milk Products Companies
Carnation Milk Producta Company
Pure Milk Dairy A. Kristoferson, Inc
Northwestern Fruit Exchange
the Bradner Co
Augustine & Kyer Schwabacher Bros. & Co
Groceteria Stores Co
Bonney-Watson Co
Lee H. Wakefield Co
Barton & Co
Kelley-Clarke Company
Columbia Salmon Co
Portland Cement Association
Eldridge Buick Co
Overland Pacific, Inc
Frank Waterhouse & Co
Seattle Automobile Co
White Automobile Co
Pacific Motors, Inc
Insurance Companies
Northern Life Insurance Co
Northwestern Mutual Fire Asse
Davis & Co
Kinnear Co
Mitsui & Co
Cho Ito & Co
Azuma Bros. Japanese-American Commission Co
T. Takiguchi
Leading Bakery
Seattle Baking Co
Roslyn Fuel Co
Pacific Coast Coal Co
Pacific Shipping & Fuel Co
United Coal Sales Co
Wellington Coal Co
Central Coal Co
Railroad, Transportation and Power Companies
Puget Sound Traction. Light and Power Co
Seattle Rainier Valley Railway Co
City Light Dept. Western Smelting & Power Co
Pacific Steamship Company
City Messenger & Transfer Co
Nippon Yusen Kaisha
Puget Sound Navigation Co