“If you can’t trust your car dealer, who can you trust?”
“The community we represent has just been made the victim of legal extortion.”
On Aug. 29 1974, Federal Way teachers went on strike. The strike was the first public school teachers strike in King County history and one of the first in Washington state.
Federal Way residents voted to incorporate their community as a city in March 1989. The vote was 9,838 to 4,381.
On May 4, 1938, roughly 100 of the 324 students at Federal Way School — serving grades kindergarten through eighth grade and then Federal Way’s only educational institution — staged a strike to protest the firing of their principal Charles Springer.
In December 1962, 29-year-old Boeing engineer Harold Booker, his wife Verda and their two small sons moved into a home overlooking Steel Lake in the 30200 block of 20th Ave. S. in Federal Way.
In the 1960s, the United States experienced a vast social revolution.
