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Article: Fillmore Street stroll to Alta Plaza Park.(Lifestyle)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- October 2, 2009
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Once a center of African American culture, Fillmore Street today is almost totally gentrified, with only traces remaining of the diverse ethnic groups that called it home. After the 1906 earthquake and fire, Jews settled in the Fillmore area, escaping the destruction of their south of Market Street homes. Soon the Fillmore sported synagogues, kosher delis and butcher shops. Japanese families also flooded into the area after the quake, remaining there until their internment during World War II.
During the war, African American munitions and shipyard workers moved into the Fillmore, creating the city's largest black neighborhood, filled with jazz clubs, restaurants ...