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Palace Fish (Seattle)

Palace Fish (Seattle) By Rita Cipalla Posted 10/10/2023 HistoryLink.org Essay 22774 See Additional Media For 75 years, the Alhadeff family dominated Seattle’s retail and wholesale fish business. Their company was started by Nessim Alhadeff, who arrived in Seattle in 1904 from the Mediterranean island of Rhodes. Read more » »

Costigan, Giovanni Marie Denis George (1905-1990)

History professor and author, peace activist and humanitarian, Giovanni Costigan taught at the University of Washington for 41 years and was professor emeritus there for 15 more. Passionate about liberal social causes, he spoke out often and fearlessly about some of the most divisive issues of his day — the anti-communism purges of the 1950s, U.S. Read more » »