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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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Would you be interested in a "Before Seattle"? How American cities looked before white settlement

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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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The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opened 100 years ago on June 1, 1909

One hundred years ago, on June 1, 1909, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition threw its doors open to the world. Located on what is now the main campus...
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Open to Question: Activism in Seattle's University District exhibit opening with Paul Dorpat April 3

The University District Museum Without Walls, on whose steering committee I sit, is unveiling its first project Friday, April 3, 2009, at the UW...
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Scholars & Rogues on Georgetown's Rainier Cold Storage complex, original home of Rainier Beer

Head on over to Scholars & Rogues for a nice photo essay by Dawn Farmer on the old Rainier Cold Storage complex in Georgetown.(Here's more...
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Historical photos replaced by advertising on Washington State Ferries

Chuck Taylor notes on Seattle Post-Times that the historical photos of their respective namesakes that used to hang on the walls of Washington State...
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Paul Dorpat launches Seattle Now & Then archive at PaulDorpat.com

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Paul Dorpat announced yesterday that he would begin to archive the Seattle Now & Then column he's been writing since 1982 for Pacific Northwest...
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KKK had state headquarters in Seattle, says history project

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An article in today's Seattle Times called my attention to what looks like the latest addition to the University of Washington's Seattle Civil Rights...
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A minor Ravenna landmark, erased: The Piecora's painted wall sign is gone

I only lived on N.E. 55th Street for five years in the 1990s, but it holds a deep connection for me: my mother had her office there for over 20 years,...
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King County Fair to be shut down after 145 years?

The Seattle Times is reporting that Ron Sims plans to end the King County Fair's 145-year run as part of his 2009 budget cuts. Sims needs to reduce...
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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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