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Anonymous letter complains about hippies in Pike Place Market
Favorite Archival Object: Anonymous Letter
3/9/20221:01

Seattle Municipal Archives Processing Archivist Julie Kerssen shows us an anonymous letter written to Mayor Wesley Carl Uhlman complaining about hippies in the Pike Place Market in 1970.

View more from the "Favorite Archival Object" series here. 

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