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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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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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Knute Berger on Seattle's civic dementia

On May 20, 2009, Knute Berger gave the keynote speech at Historic Seattle's 35th anniversary and awards banquet. The full text is available both on...
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Seattle's oldest used bookstore, Horizon Books, to close March 15

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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A few holes in the KUBE 93 Haunted House 'Georgetown Morgue' story

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Carolyn Yuen writes in today's Daily about the former Georgetown Morgue in south Seattle, today home to the KUBE 93 Haunted House. She seems to have...
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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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What are Seattle neighborhoods' oldest houses?

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Ward House, at E. Denny Way and Belmont Ave. E.,is Seattle's oldest house (ca. 1882). Photo by Jmabel,Wikimedia Commons, licensed under GFDL.To answer...
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