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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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1928 Cowen Park drinking fountain destroyed?

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

Destroyed, removed for renovation (though that doesn't look likely) — whatever happened to it, the drinking fountain, dated 1928, that used to...
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Seattle's boulevard street signs are turning brown

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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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Friends of Seattle's Olmsted Parks interpretive panel stolen from Volunteer Park water tower

The Capitol Hill Times is reporting (as of this writing, in print only) the theft, on June 24, of "an...interpretive panel showing the...
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The Pacific Science Center courtyard is on a list of endangered landscapes

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[NOTE 12/16: This article was updated after the Pacific Science Center disputed some of the Cultural Landscape Foundation's allegations.]I hear from...
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Can you identify this sulfur spring in Ravenna Park? Is it the remnant of Wood Nymph's Well?

Walking through Ravenna Park the other day, I came across a stone structure I'd never noticed before, just off the service road where it crosses...
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Green Lake spikes mystery solved: the city did it, nearly 25 years ago

Looks like a case of the city's right hand (or foot!) in 2008 not knowing what its left hand was doing in 1984: city officials now think the Green...
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