Two mainstays of the University District will soon be no more. [Originally posted 10/22/09] In May, I wrote about the University of...
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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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I recently received, via both postal and electronic mail, a notice from Safeco, indicating that their logo was once again changing. "New look,...
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It's all over for the print edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle's oldest newspaper and oldest business. The March 17 edition will be...
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Two items of note regarding the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on Chuck Taylor's Seattle Post-Times blog today: Staff for a potential online-only...
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As also reported by the Seattle Literature Examiner, we're about to lose our oldest used bookstore, Capitol Hill's Horizon Books. Founded in July 1971...
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Eric Lacitis has a great piece in yesterday's Seattle Times on Bob McDonald and Jim Youngren, the men behind the famous billboard erected at Pacific...
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In September, I came to the conclusion that the oldest business in Seattle was the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper — officially founded in...
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No, KIRO isn't going off the air (though given recent events with Washington Mutual and Safeco and possible future events with Boeing, nothing would...
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The subjects of two of my previous posts are back in the news. First up: the Seattle P-I is reporting that the efforts of the Duwamish tribe to gain...
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