Over and over, the troll comments: the Seahawks’ 12th Man is a farce and stolen from Texas A&M. Seattle’s fans are a bunch of loser…
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Published June 7, 2014
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Published June 5, 2014
Roanoke Park and Seattle’s Broadway Streetcar
This history of streetcar service into the northern reaches of Seattle’s Capitol Hill was about three years in the making. I pieced it together through…
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Published March 10, 2014
Waning Days of One Woman’s War
We segue from a nearly-forgotten use of a nearly-forgotten building, to final memories of a veteran. The structure would have been a good candidate for…
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Published March 7, 2014
Seattle’s First Korean War Parade
On May 5, 1951, Seattle welcomed 1,500 soldiers back to the US from the war in Korea. It was a raucous celebration with a 105mm…
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Published March 3, 2014
Man as Oversimplified Data
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 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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