(This article appeared in 2014 in the Westside Weekly. It hasn’t shown up online though so I’m posting it to my own site.) Time Travel…
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Published April 21, 2015
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Published April 16, 2015
Room 59, Alki Hotel
This originally ran as a series of articles on the now-zombie website Seattlest in October 2010. The old photos are from circa 1974. I picked…
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Published March 31, 2015
Sweden’s Atomic Energy, 1960s Pamphlets
In September 1967 my grandfather visited Stockholm for a meeting of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Technical Committee 45, setting standards for nuclear reactor test…
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Published March 22, 2015
Old Ballard Street Names, Searchable Table
Ballard was a city of its own until 1907, when the citizenry voted to be annexed into Seattle. Data updated significantly on 8/20/2019. The data…
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Published March 19, 2015
Traveling Photography
(This article by me originally appeared on the now-defunct site Indicommons.org, which celebrated the Flickr Commons. It ran in July 2009. Rescued via archive.org) One…
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Published March 17, 2015
1895 Seattle Street Renaming, Searchable Table
The below table is a catalog of the changes made to Seattle’s street names at the end of 1895. This is a corrected, tabular format…
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Published February 10, 2015
Rebuilding Seattle after the Great Fire, All 1890 Structures
The January 1, 1891 Seattle Post-Intelligencer was full of boosterism. They were so taken up with recounting how thoroughly Seattle had recovered from the Great…
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Published December 10, 2014
Seattle’s Beacon Hill, Redefined
Awhile back I wrote that the origin story of the name of Seattle’s Beacon Hill made no sense. Well, first of all, the story changed…
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Published October 23, 2014
Wallingford Eba’s Store No. 7
In 1927 Eba’s Cut Rate Grocery opened a new store in Wallingford. My grandmother Elizabeth, seven years old, lived a block away. It must have…
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Published October 22, 2014
Main Arcade Eba’s Store No. 1
This is a history of the Pike Place Market’s Rotary Grocery and of Eba’s Grocery’s first stores in the Main Arcade. Earl Eba returned to…
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