In the 1950s, the city of Seattle began a transformation from an insular, provincial outpost to a vibrant and cosmopolitan cultural center. As veteran Seattle journalist R. M. Campbell illustrates in Stirring Up Seattle: Allied Arts in the Civic Landscape, this transformation was catalyzed in part by the efforts of a group of civic arts boosters originally known as “The Beer and Culture Society.” This “merry band” of lawyers, architects, writers, designers, and university professors, eventually known as Allied Arts of Seattle, lobbied for public funding for the arts, helped avert the demolition of Pike Place Market, and were involved in a wide range of crusades and campaigns in support of historic preservation, cultural institutions, and urban livability.

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1.Alice Rooney 2.Pike Place Market, One of the Great Civic Battles That Helped Shape Seattle 3.Victor Steinbrueck 4.Seattle's Engagement with Historic Preservation 5.Betty Bowen 6.Preserving Pioneer Square 7.Fred Bassetti 8.Marching to the World's Fair and Seattle Center 9.Robert Jackson Block 10.Creating Stable Arts Organizations 11.Peggy Golberg 12.Festivals, Publications, Exhibitions, Concerts, and a Miscellany of Projects 13.Paul E. S. Schell 14.Art Funded by the Public Purse 15.Jerry Thonn 16.Fighting to Regulate Billboards 17.Mary B. Coney 18.The Campaign to Bury Utility Wires 19.Llewelyn G. Pritchard 20.Allied Arts' Embrace of the Urban Environment 21.Margaret Pageler