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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In the early morning hours of June 30, an arsonist set three fires in downtown Snoqualmie. According to the SnoValley Star, one was set behind...
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Head on over to Crosscut.com for an excellent article by amateur local historian Robert Ketcherside, "Why light rail was predestined for MLK...
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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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Or, I should say, Seattle's pedestrian subway, for I know of only one. I'm using "subway" here in the British sense of underpass, not in the...
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As noted the other day, Seattle's historic schooner Wawona will soon be no more, and left South Lake Union for good yesterday.Today on Crosscut.com,...
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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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It's being reported that the schooner Wawona, which carried lumber to California until 1914 and thereafter fished cod in the Bering Sea until 1947,...
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Looks like I'm not the only one with an interest in the street stairways of Seattle. According to The Seattle Times, there are 550 of them in Seattle,...
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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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