One man stood out from the rest. I looked up about 100 men who died in the Korean War, all supposedly from Seattle or King…
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Published March 3, 2014
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Published February 28, 2014
Mapping Seattle and the Forgotten War
Earlier this week I posted a series of photographs and the story of a troop transport arriving in Seattle on August 2, 1951. This article…
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Published February 25, 2014
Seattle’s Second Seafair
August 2nd, 1951. Seattle’s Seafair summer festival was just getting underway. It was the first day of Gold Cup races on Lake Washington. But a…
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Published February 24, 2014
Life of Iconic Internment Family
Social media and web historians do a disservice to the memory of Seattle’s Shigeo and Chiseko Nagaishi. Photographs of racist vandalism that their family endured…
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Published February 14, 2014
Seattle Street Clock Inventories, 1920s
I have a thing for Seattle’s clocks. The ones in the sidewalk that are about fifteen feet tall. I’ve got this database of old photographs…
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Published February 11, 2014
Seattle Mayoral Residences, 1869-1998
Where did Seattle’s mayor’s live? It’s a simple, honest question. But apparently no one has ever assembled the data together in one place. It started…
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Published January 25, 2014
Dad’s 8-Tracks
There were two boxes of 8-track cassettes that my dad treasured. When I was still very little he used to play them in his stereo,…
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