Lights Out Seattle Questions

Questions ON YOUR OWN SHEET OF PAPER:

1. How many workers did Boeing have in 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, and 1974?

2. Why did the economic decline of the 1970s hit Seattle and the Puget Sound region so much harder than anywhere else?

3. When an economist talks about "guns versus butter," what are they talking about?

4. What is stagflation? (Be sure to use your own language, not just a quote from the reading.)

5. How long was the longest period at Boeing without a new order?

6. How did the poor and unemployed get by (or not) during the Boeing Bust? (be detailed and provide examples)

7. In the 1970s, it seemed like even nature hated Washington. What made it seem that way?

8. What was the line on the billboard that became the key joke in Seattle urban history of the 1970s?

9. The economy in Seattle hit bottom in 1974. Was the Seattle region fully recovered by 1980?

10. Why do you think D.B. Cooper became a folk hero? Who are today's folk heros, the heros of the average populace, in your opinion?

11. Parts of this story are like our present situation today. What are those parts?

12. What things are different today about Seattle from the situation the 1970s?