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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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Fraternal Order of Eagles' Mother Aerie downsizing, moving to Maple Leaf

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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Belltown's 1908 Bon Marché stables (Compton Building) likely to face demolition

I see at the Seattle PostGlobe that the former Bon Marché stables at 2315 Western Avenue will likely come down, even though they are now a city...
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120th anniversary of the Great Seattle Fire

Today is the 120th anniversary of the Great Seattle Fire, which destroyed nearly 30 blocks in what is now Pioneer Square and Downtown. Seattle's...
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John Wayne's car-chase tour of Seattle in 1974's 'McQ'

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In 1974, John Wayne starred in the crime drama McQ, set and filmed in Seattle. A friend of mine just sent me this...
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Yes, there is a steam plant downtown. And now it's going to start burning waste wood.

The article in last week's Seattle Times headlined "Waste wood to heat downtown Seattle buildings" caught my eye not just because of the...
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City loses $4,987,500 in the public toilet debacle—maybe they should have just reopened the pergola

Remember those five toilets the city bought for a million dollars apiece four years ago? They finally managed to unload them on eBay — for...
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Will our modern architecture stand the test of time?

Seattle Times book critic Michael Upchurch recently took an architectural walking tour of downtown Seattle with Maureen R. Elenga, author of the...
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