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 25, 2014
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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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