For a half century, Mayer Brothers was the most important manufacturing jeweler in Seattle. But it all started with the Klondike Gold Rush in 1897.…
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Published February 2, 2019
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Published January 19, 2019
Street Clocks and Stacy Shown’s Showns
The street clock of Stacy Shown’s jewelry shop stood outside the Smith Tower for many decades. Shown, his wife, and their daughter all died within…
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Published January 1, 2017
The Curious Case of the Central School Clock
The clock tower of Seattle’s Central School stood in a commanding position. Built in 1883, the school was taller than any building around it at…
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Published November 3, 2016
Time to Daylight and Save Time in Seattle
Fall Back into Rephotography I’ll be on Evening magazine Friday, November 4th talking about the clocks in Seattle, in honor of the end of Daylight…
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Published January 3, 2016
Blueprints of Seattle’s Street Clocks
To install clocks in the Seattle street right-of-way after 1901, the Seattle Board of Public Works required blueprint plans or photographs to be submitted. So far,…
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Published June 20, 2015
Clock DB – Where Seattle’s Street Clocks Were
A Database of Seattle Clocks by Time, Owner and Location Six years in the making, I’m happy to publicly unveil my Seattle street clock database.…
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Published May 20, 2015
Time Travel to Pike’s Forest of Street Clocks
Seattle still has a bunch of street clocks. (Those clocks on poles in the sidewalk.) Almost a dozen, which is more than just about any…
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Published April 21, 2015
Time Travel to West Seattle
(This article appeared in 2014 in the Westside Weekly. It hasn’t shown up online though so I’m posting it to my own site.) Time Travel…
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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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