Here’s the dataset on figshare with every drive-in market location we’ve found. There are some crazy things at play: Archival web crawling Open history data Past-current…
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Published June 11, 2016
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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 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 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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