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It employs 19,000 staff and is supported by 600,000 volunteers, and YMCA branches have about 10,000 service locations. [1] The first YMCA in the United States opened on December 29, 1851, in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1851 by Captain Thomas Valentine Sullivan (1800–59), an American seaman and missionary.
Camp Orkila is on the northwest shoulder of Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands of Washington, overlooking Presidents Channel, and the Canadian Gulf Islands. It has been in operation since 1906. [1] It is operated by the Greater Seattle Area's YMCA. It is open year-round and offers many different programs ranging from conference and retreat ...
YMCA Field 1901–1902 N/A Seattle Clamdiggers: N/A Recreation Park Base Ball Grounds 1905 N/A Seattle Siwashes: N/A Yesler Way Park 1907–1912 N/A Seattle Siwashes, Seattle Turks, Seattle Giants: N/A Dugdale Field ~1900–1932 15,000 Seattle Giants, Ballard Pippins: N/A Civic Field 1932–1938 15,000 Seattle Indians, Seattle Rainiers: N/A ...
YMCA, sometimes regionally called the Y, is a worldwide youth organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries in 120 countries. [1] It was founded in London on 6 June 1844 by George Williams as the Young Men's Christian Association. The organization aims to put Christian values into practice by developing a ...
The Seattle school boycott of 1966 was a protest against racial segregation in the Seattle Public Schools. On March 31 and April 1, thousands of students left classes at their public schools, with the large majority of them attending community Freedom Schools instead. [1] [2]
1991. Designated SEATL. October 16, 1989 [1] The 1411 Fourth Avenue Building is a historic building in Seattle, Washington, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 28, 1991 (ID #91000633). The 15-story plus basement Art Deco structure is located at the Northwest corner of Fourth Avenue and Union Street.
YMCA The Bowery YMCA in Manhattan in 1893. In the US, the YMCA began building SRO facilities in the 1880s to house people from rural areas who moved into cities to look for work. The typical YMCA SRO housing provides "low-income, temporary housing for a rent of $110 per week (in 2005)" for stays that are typically three to six months long.
Film history timeline, City of Seattle Office of Film and Music, 2014 "Seattle Film History". seattle.gov. 2014; Vanessa Ho (July 17, 2014), "Movies made in Seattle and Washington", Seattle Post-Intelligencer; Feliks Banel (March 4, 2010), "The Best Movies Made in Seattle (an Oscar Preview)", Seattle Post-Intelligencer