(This article by me originally appeared on the now-defunct site Indicommons.org, which celebrated the Flickr Commons. It ran in July 2009. Rescued via archive.org in…
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Published March 19, 2015
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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 November 30, 2014
Lopat’s Nomads vs. Team Ultraman Samurai (1953 and 2014)
In October and November 1953 a team of America’s biggest stars traveled to Honolulu, Tokyo, Nagoya, Okinawa and Manila to put on a show. Each…
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Published October 23, 2014
Wallingford Eba’s Store No. 7
In 1927 Eba’s Cut Rate Grocery opened a new store in Wallingford. My grandmother Elizabeth, seven years old, lived a block away. It must have…
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Published October 22, 2014
Main Arcade Eba’s Store No. 1
This is a history of the Pike Place Market’s Rotary Grocery and of Eba’s Grocery’s first stores in the Main Arcade. Earl Eba returned to…
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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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