Every antique store has a basket — squeezed onto a corner of a shelf of an overfilled display case — with a pile of postcards.…
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Published November 20, 2016
Category: Seattle
Published November 3, 2016
Time to Daylight and Save Time in Seattle
Fall Back into Rephotography I’ll be on Evening magazine Friday, November 4th talking about the clocks in Seattle, in honor of the end of Daylight…
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Published July 4, 2016
Frederick Trump in Pioneer Square, Seattle
Donald Trump’s grandfather Yes, that Donald Trump. Get yourself an age appropriate beverage and a comfortable place to read this. I’d like the opportunity to correct…
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Published June 2, 2016
Corner Market Eba’s Store Number 2
Eba’s Cut Rate Groceries opened in the Corner Market in 1927, located just behind the 1st and Pike storefront occupied by 3 Girls Bakery. Eba…
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Published February 13, 2016
Seattle’s earliest car architecture in pictures
Last month I finished an article describing the handful of Seattle’s drive-in markets. They may have been Seattle’s first buildings designed to engage automobiles —…
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Published February 13, 2016
Blueprints of Broadway Market
Almost a year ago I wrote a long history of Broadway Market in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, which ran in Capitol Hill Seattle blog. Because of…
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Published February 9, 2016
50s Futurism Forgotten – The Burien Tradewell Story
The core of this article originally appeared in the print edition of Seattle’s Westside Weekly, but has not appeared online until now. However, this is…
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Published January 15, 2016
Once Upon a Time in the Plan of Seattle
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 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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