The Long Valley by Helen Markley Miller6/20/2023 ![]() Their search for a home and reception by locals were infuriating. Even for a working class white family, trying to find a place to live in wartime Seattle was a battle in and of itself. They came from Idaho, and were stunned by Seattleās prices. Martin Miller was a newspaper editor making a modest salary, and he and his wife were looking for a place to live. Into this mix came Martin and Helen Miller and their young son, one of many families who came to town for wartime employment. This is the second in a two-part series on the origins of the Seattle Freeze. The factories and shipyards were filled with Rosie the Riveters helping build those ships and planes for the war effort. ![]() The declaration of war after Pearl Harbor, at the end of 1941, meant rapid expansion, not least for Boeing, which was supplying B-17s to bomb the Nazis. ![]() ![]() Because the population boom could not be planned for in advance, an acute housing shortage took hold. The city was growing with a new, diverse wartime workforce, even as it expelled its Japanese and Japanese American residents. ![]() Seattle in 1942 saw itself on the front lines of the Pacific campaign. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |