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Benjamin Lukoff
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Seattle native Benjamin Lukoff is a freelance writer and editor. He's been interested in local history since the age of six, when his father bought him 'Pig-Tail Days in Old Seattle' at the MOHAI gift shop.


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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 · 2 comments
My latest piece in Crosscut.com is on the recent addition of white-on-brown street signs to Seattle's inventory. They are meant to mark our network of...
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Two mainstays of the University District will soon be no more. In May, I wrote about the University of Washington's plans to demolish the...
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I must admit to being an infrequent reader of The Stranger, "Seattle's Only Newspaper," and I certainly didn't expect to find something of...
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Driving home the other day from Lake City to Roosevelt, I saw the banner to the right across a nondescript building on Lake City Way N.E. at N.E. 82nd...
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The cover of the September 2009 issue of National Geographic features a shot of Lower Manhattan. To the right of a yellow dividing line is how the...
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I just got an e-mail from the Washington State Historical Society and Museum announcing that this October is the third annual Archives Month in the...
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A while back, Allan Phillips, co-owner of the Carleton Avenue Grocery in Georgetown, wrote to ask me if his was the oldest grocery store in Seattle....
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In the early morning hours of June 30, an arsonist set three fires in downtown Snoqualmie. According to the SnoValley Star, one was set behind...
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That would have been my assumption — and, if not Seattle, then surely Tacoma? But no — apparently it was Temple Emanu-El in Spokane, built...
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Head on over to Crosscut.com for an excellent article by amateur local historian Robert Ketcherside, "Why light rail was predestined for MLK...
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