[WWI-1938]-[WWII-1974]-[1975-1990]-[1991-2005]-[2006-2030]
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| New Medina ferry dock, May 30, 1914 |
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1915
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| Medina ~1915 |
1915 Electric lights come to Bellevue powered by Puget Sound Power and Light by Snoqualmie Falls.
1915 A timber bridge is built over Meydenbauer ravine on what is now NE 1st Street. (demolished in 1961)
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1916
196 students enrolled in Bellevue area schools. Bussing begins. Sam Sharpe was hired by the school district to use his own 1914 Studebaker as a bus for Wilburton students. His 14 year old son, Andy, drove the bus
1916, the Boeing Company was first started
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1918
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| Left Photo: Employees of Stewart & Holmes Wholesale Drug Co. 3rd Ave Seattle, during the 1918 influenza pandemic. Right: Seattle Police, December 1918 National Archives (Record No. 165-WW-269B-25) | 1919 |
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January 1920, three elm trees were planted by the Bellevue Minute Women, in front of the grade school in memory of 3 Bellevue men who lost their lives in WWI. (Victor Freed, Victor Hanson, and Oscar Johnson). The area is now part of the Downtown Park. In 2007, one elm tree was cut down due to wind storm damage and health of the tree. Another tree replaced it and wood from the original tree will be made into a bench.
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1922
First annual Strawberry Festival was held behind the Main Street School.
The Eastside was already famous for growing the finest strawberries, the chief crop of many Japanese-American farmers.
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| Strawberry Festival "Princess" Glenna Osborn, "Queen" Patty Smith and "Princess" Marguerite Siemon celebrate the Strawberry Festival | 1922 - The Bellevue Women's Club, organized the previous year, starts the first public library in Parrish's Cafe on Main Street and 100th NE with 300 books donated by the Seattle Public Library. |
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1923
Union S School District was organized
The Main Street School became a four-year accredited high school.
Leonora Brys, Paul Hunter and Lillian Peterson were the first graduates of the new four year accredited high school.
The first Bellevue High School Annual is produced as part of the REFLECTOR.
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1924
In 1924 Hewitt-Lea Company sought $125,000 in damages because the opening of the Lake Washington Ship Canal in 1916 put the company out of the business by lowering the lake level. Testimony in the Hewitt-Lea case described the channel as "tortuous and narrow" with "roots, snags and logs in the bed" ("Brief of Respondent"). Travel was both easier and more challenging in winter when the water level was at its highest. The deeper water allowed the boats to encounter fewer obstacles but if the water was deep enough, the entire slough could resemble a side bay of the lake.. and the channel would be hidden.
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| Simulated Flood Map (above) of Mercer Slough to show potential flood area |
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1926
November 11th 1926, Armistice Day - A new stone monument was dedicated (as a flagpole base) in memory of three Bellevue men who died in World War I. Located then near the front of the grade school building with the three elm trees that were planted in 1920, today the school and flagpole are gone; the memorial tablet and elm trees remain in the Downtown Park. (“1914-1918 Lest We Forget” is written with three names.)
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In decade of the 1920's the Bellevue Population reaches ~2,500+.
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1926 Sacred Heart Church is built at 108th Avenue NE and Main Street in Bellevue. Organized around the turn of the century, services had previously been held at Patrick Downey's home.
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Andrew Balatico was born November 10, 1906 in the Philippines, immigrating to Bellevue, WA in 1926. In the late 1930s Balatico bought three acres of land on Bellevue Way. He worked to clear the land, and the next summer planted two acres of strawberries and one acre of peas.
Andrew's brother Marc came to visit from Montana and stayed to help him clear 15 more acres of rented land. Their hard work paid off, and by the 1960s Andrew Balatico was growing corn and pumpkins and running a prosperous vegetable stand.
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1928
Bellevue Way (then Lincoln Avenue) is paved from Main Street to Northeast Eighth Street and opened as a county arterial. This causes a shift in the location of Bellevue's commercial area from Main Street to the north.
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1929
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| 1929 the Frederick W. Winters House on the west side of present-day Mercer Slough Nature Park was built for $32,000 by Frederick and Cecilia Winters. | | 1930 Union S High School was opened on 102nd Avenue N.E. between .E. 1st and N.E. 4th. It was called Bellevue High School and later called Overlake High School. (After the new high school on the hill was opened in 1949, the Union S. building became part of Bellevue Junior High.) The Great Depression (https://depts.washington.edu/depress/) was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States. Nine states had work ban laws prior to the Depression and by 1940, 26 states restricted married women’s employment in state government jobs. |
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Charles P. LeWarne was born August 16, 1930 in Bellevue.
His father Charles T. LeWarne was a resident of Bellevue for 51 years and was a Bellevue postmaster. 
Charles authored several books and wrote about the Love Israel Family commune, which had its start on Seattle's Queen Anne Hill in 1968.
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1930 Union "S" High School is built on 102nd Avenue NE between NE lst and NE 4th in Bellevue. It was demolished during construction of the downtown park.
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1931
The annual Bellevue Strawberry Festival returned in 1931 and for the first year there was a Strawberry Queen, Miss May Carter Stewart. The ‘Royalty’ tradition continued each year after that.
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1938
~15,000 people attended the Bellevue Strawberry festival, consuming a total of 4,172 lbs of strawberries, 69 gallons of whipping cream, 100 gallons of ice cream, and 8750 shortcakes.
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