I transcribed three major street renaming events in early 1900s Seattle: West Seattle; Beacon Hill, Columbia City, and the Rainier Valley; and Georgetown. As each…
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Published October 23, 2015
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Published June 20, 2015
Clock DB – Where Seattle’s Street Clocks Were
A Database of Seattle Clocks by Time, Owner and Location Six years in the making, I’m happy to publicly unveil my Seattle street clock database.…
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Published May 20, 2015
Time Travel to Pike’s Forest of Street Clocks
Seattle still has a bunch of street clocks. (Those clocks on poles in the sidewalk.) Almost a dozen, which is more than just about any…
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Published April 24, 2015
Festival Queen to Asylum Inmate, Virgilia Bogue Baron
“Miss Bogue is about five feet, ten inches in height, splendidly proportioned, with an exceedingly graceful carriage; is of the brunette type with large, dark…
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Published April 16, 2015
Room 59, Alki Hotel
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 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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