Just before Christmas I dropped a limited edition paper on the history of the 1911 Plan of Seattle. It was limited to a single copy,…
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Published January 15, 2016
Category: Seattle
Published January 9, 2016
Seattle’s Drive-In Markets
Only one of Seattle’s drive-in markets is extant, the current Builders’ Hardware & Supply in Interbay. At its core, this article is an exploration of the historical…
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Published January 3, 2016
Blueprints of Seattle’s Street Clocks
To install clocks in the Seattle street right-of-way after 1901, the Seattle Board of Public Works required blueprint plans or photographs to be submitted. So far,…
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Published October 23, 2015
Renaming the streets of South and West Seattle
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 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 21, 2015
Time Travel to West Seattle
(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 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 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 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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