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208 stories matching booster
- The Great Sticker Campaign of 1909
Tacoma’s boosters are planning a massive, city-wide sticker campaign to promote the town to the world.
- Tacoma Takes a Win in the War of the Rails
Tacoma boosters celebrate a victory as the Great Northern Railroad prepares to move its commissary operations from Seattle to Tacoma.
- The Fight to Save Tacoma’s U.S. Engineer Office
Tacoma boosters scramble to keep the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers branch office from moving to Seattle.
- Three Thousand Boosters Eat, Cheer, and Rebrand Tacoma
One night in February 1909: 3,000 boosters packed the armory, picked a new city slogan — 'You'll Like Tacoma' — and got sermons on land, liquor, and who should own the tide flats.
- The Northern Pacific Railway's 'Double Cross' of Tacoma
Local boosters vow to fight for recognition after the railroad cancels a promised tourism advertisement promoting Mt. Tacoma at the behest of Seattle interests.
- The Desert Road District
Sunnyside boosters launch a pioneering bid to link the Inland Empire highway to the isolated Priest Rapids district.
- The Boomtown Hype of 1870s Tacoma
A booster-style editorial from the Snohomish Eye argues for a direct shipping route to New Tacoma to bypass Seattle's influence.
- The Great Population Bluff of 1887
A scathing editorial exposes how local politicians inflated King County’s census data, revealing the long history of 'boosterism' in Seattle's growth.
- A Cheery Booster Lost
A White Bluffs orchard worker dies following a failed medical operation in Yakima.
- Boosters Lobby for a Holiday to Celebrate Tacoma Day at the Fair
Tacoma business leaders meet to discuss declaring a half-holiday so residents can attend the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle.
- A Gilded Vision of the Northwest Frontier
Celebrating the completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad, a booster-style manifesto maps out a future for Washington’s 'infant cities.'
- The 'Young Giant' of the Northwest
A booster-era dispatch from 1891 paints a portrait of Seattle as a resource-rich boomtown clawing its way back to prosperity following a devastating fire.
- The Perils of the Oiled Road
A disastrously bumpy trip by local boosters to Attalia results in wrecked cars and a debate over infrastructure priorities.
- The Promised Heights of West Seattle
A booster-era description of a neighborhood rising above the clouds, promising a future of wharves, factories, and mountain views.
- The True Cost of a Cigar
A local cigar salesman challenges Everett's 'boosters' to practice what they preach by supporting union-made, home-grown tobacco instead of shipping money East for trust-made goods.
- The Sunnyside Caravan Rolls Into White Bluffs
Sixty-five boosters arrive by car to sell the valley on community cooperation and the promise of Ford Day.
- The Boom of Chehalis County
A booster-style report on the rapid growth of the timber and agricultural sectors along Gray's Harbor, highlighting the proposed railroad to Seattle.
- Colville Boosters Redrew the Map, and the Taxpayers Paid for the Surveys
Northport cries foul after County Surveyor Clare Hunt moves the Newport–Metaline–Orient road off its original line, leaving a direct-route town side-tracked — and several thousand dollars spent on surveys that produced no road at all.
- The Battle for the Puyallup Road
After a heated argument between commissioners and local boosters, the new state aid road will bypass Milton-Edgewood for a more direct route through Puyallup and Sumner.
- The Unstoppable March of the Snohomish Valley
A booster-era dispatch from 1885 details the transformation of the Snohomish Valley, documenting the arrival of the railroad, rising land values, and the shifting identity of a 'rural' community entering the urban age.
- The Real Estate Pitch That Conquered West Seattle
A booster-era advertisement uses high-flown, flowery prose to compare the views of West Seattle to the Swiss Alps, aiming to sell lots in a burgeoning new neighborhood.
- The Strange Quiet of 1876 Seattle
After the Fourth of July celebrations, the city fell into an eerie, total stillness that unsettled its local boosters.
- Searching for Black Gold Between the Rivers
Local boosters organize a syndicate to drill for coal in the promising fields between the Naches and Wenas rivers.
- Waiting for the Rails
Aberdeen's boosters struggle to secure a direct train connection as railroad officials stall.
- The Iron Road Approaches
Booster predictions anticipate the arrival of the Great Northern railway in Yakima within the year.