This is a series of rephotographs in Seattle’s International District, mixed with the story found in newspapers of Room 59 of the Alki Hotel. The…
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Published April 16, 2015
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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 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 15, 2014
Eba’s Cut Rate Markets – A Tradewell Story
This article is part of a series exploring the stores that led to the grocery chain Tradewell Stores and its history through the resignation of…
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Published September 25, 2014
Anderson, United and Mutual Markets – A Tradewell Story
Tradewell Grocery was christened in October 1939, based in Seattle. It was formed mostly from a chain named Eba’s Mutual Markets in Seattle and Eba’s…
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Published August 10, 2014
Piggly Wiggly Seattle – A Tradewell Story
In Seattle Piggly Wiggly competed with the companies that became Tradewell Stores for 15 years. This article is fifth in an exploration of Seattle’s chain grocery…
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Published July 25, 2014
(Witness Weeps) – The Tragedy of Alvin O. Monson
In my history of Seattle’s Groceteria Stores, I briefly described how Alvin Monson’s PTSD from World War One led to the downfall of that grocery…
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