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Federal Way Flashback: The fast life and high times of Dick Balch
“If you can’t trust your car dealer, who can you trust?”
Chris Green
Opinion
Threat of riot, violence ends 1974 school strike: Part 3 | Federal Way Flashback
“The community we represent has just been made the victim of legal extortion.”
Opinion
Five teachers acquitted of assault charges during 1974 strike | Federal Way Flashback
On Aug. 29 1974, Federal Way teachers went on strike. The strike was the first public school teachers…
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Long path to city’s incorporation | Federal Way Flashback
Federal Way residents voted to incorporate their community as a city in March 1989. The vote was 9,838…
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Federal Way Flashback: Students strike to protest firing of principal
On May 4, 1938, roughly 100 of the 324 students at Federal Way School — serving grades kindergarten…
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Federal Way Flashback: Black man fights racist housing policies
In December 1962, 29-year-old Boeing engineer Harold Booker, his wife Verda and their two small sons moved into…
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Fear of hippies at Steel Lake Park in 1960s | Federal Way Flashback
In the 1960s, the United States experienced a vast social revolution.