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Ballard Cybertour
This is a cybertour of Ballard, the historic Seattle neighborhood. Also available as a printable walking tour (PDF format). Written by Walt Crowley. Curated by Chris Goodman. Presented by the City of Seattle.
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Building Seattle -- A Slide Show History of Seattle's Capital Improvement Projects
This is a Slide Show photo essay on the history of Seattle's Capital Improvement Projects. Written By Walt Crowley and curated by Paul Dorpat, with Chris Goodman.
Presented by Seattle City Councilmember Martha Choe.
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Community Scrapbook: East Green Lake, 1888-1909
This is a scrapbook of photos on the east Green Lake neighborhood of Seattle from 1888-1909, with commentary by historian and photographer Paul Dorpat.
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Duwamish Waterway map superimposed on a map of the formerly winding Duwamish River
Click here for a map that shows the straight and deep Duwamish Waterway superimposed on the formerly meandering Duwamish River. The Duwamish River flowed through south Seattle into Elliott Bay. The straightening of the river began in October 1913. Map from Duwamish Diary by R. Foisy, 1949.
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Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery -- Seattle
The Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) was a fraternal organization of Union Army veterans formed after the Civil War (1861-1865) for the "defense of the late soldiery of the United States, morally, socially, and politically." By 1890, membership numbered 400,000, including a chapter in Seattle. In Seattle the land for the cemetery -- 2.3 acres at the corner of 12th Avenue E and E Howe Street, just north of the present Lake View Cemetery -- was donated in 1895 by Huldah and David Kaufman, who came to Seattle in 1869 and were among the first Jewish families in Seattle. Approximately 219 Union veterans and their wives are interred there.
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Green Lake Branch, The Seattle Public Library
Seattle's Green Lake neighborhood opened a reading room in August 1905. The community quickly outgrew the little library's capacity. In 1908, a group of 40 Green Lake business and community leaders spearheaded a drive to purchase land upon which a larger library could be built. This new library, financed by community members and in part by Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), opened in 1910. By 1999, the Green Lake Branch of The Seattle Public Library had 54,000 catalogued items and quick access to every catalogued item in the Seattle library system through its upgraded, on-line system. In the early twenty-first century, the Green Lake Branch was extensively renovated as part of "Libraries For All," a $196.4 million bond issue passed by Seattle voters in 1998. The branch was closed for more than a year for the renovation, and reopened amidst great celebration in March 2004.
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Gwinn, Gardner J. (1888-1959)
Gardner J. Gwinn was a talented and industrious immigrant from Canada who quickly established himself as one of Seattle's most influential home builders and land developers in the early decades of the twentieth century. By 1924, when he was 36, Gwinn's company had become the largest home builder in the Northwest. He also constructed numerous apartment buildings and the Benjamin Franklin Hotel in downtown Seattle. Gwinn served as president of the Seattle Master Builders Association (now Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish Counties) in 1927 and 1928 and was active in civic organizations.
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Hooverville: Shantytown of Seattle's Great Depression
During the fall and winter of 1931 and 1932, unemployed workers established Seattle’s "Hooverville," a shantytown named in sarcastic honor of U.S. President Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), on whose beat the Great Depression began. In October 1931, an unemployed lumberjack by the name of Jesse Jackson and 20 others started building shacks on vacant land owned by the Port of Seattle located a few blocks south of Pioneer Square.
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Housebuilding in Seattle: A History
Housebuilding in Seattle and the surrounding region has progressed from the communal longhouses of Native Americans through the log cabins of the first settlers to simple, balloon-framed houses. Wood was plentiful and became the natural building material of choice. The newly wealthy poured money first into ornate Victorian mansions and later into a variety of other styles imported from Europe. A boom around the turn of the twentieth century brought a spate of building for the ordinary citizens as well as the wealthy, and two iconic Seattle housing styles -- the Craftsman bungalow and houseboats -- were introduced. So-called "modern" architecture also made its appearance and it would come to dominate the industry. Governments from federal to local began playing more intrusive roles in the housing industry, starting in the Great Depression of the 1930s, and those roles would continue to expand. After World War II, Seattle's population continued to grow, except for a brief period in the late 1970s. As buildable land became more costly and hard to find, the city kept amending its building codes and permit requirements to squeeze more dwellings onto the finite stock of space, and builders sought cheaper land and fewer restrictions in the suburbs.
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International District Cybertour
This is a Cybertour of Seattle's International District. Also available as a printable walking tour (PDF format). It was prepared by Walt Crowley and produced by Chris Goodman and Marie McCaffrey. Presented by the City of Seattle, Office of Economic Development, Tourism Division.
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Jefferson Park Municipal Golf Course (Seattle)
Jefferson Park provides Seattle residents with 27 holes of golf plus other recreational activities on Beacon Hill. Jefferson Park was the first municipal golf course in Seattle and the third golf course in King County. During World War II, the park was used for anti-aircraft defenses and a U.S. Army recreational camp. Parts of the original property became a Veterans' Hospital and Asa Mercer Junior High School.
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Kubota Garden (Seattle)
Kubota Garden is a 20-acre Japanese garden operated by the Seattle Parks and Recreation Department in southeast Seattle at 9600 Renton Avenue S. Northwest plants are blended with traditional designs into hills, valleys, streams, ponds, waterfalls, and rock outcroppings. It is open year-round and admission is free. The gardens were designed and built by Fujitaro Kubota (1879-1973) between 1927 and the 1970s.
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Lake Union (Seattle) Cybertour
This is a Cybertour of Seattle's historic South Lake Union neighborhood, including the Cascade neighborhood and portions of the Denny Regrade. It was written and curated by Paula Becker with the assistance of Walt Crowley and Paul Dorpat. Map by Marie McCaffrey. Preparation of this feature was underwritten by Vulcan Inc., a Paul G. Allen Company. This Cybertour begins at Lake Union Park, then loosely follows the course of the Westlake Streetcar, with forays into the Cascade neighborhood and into the Seattle Center area.
Also available as a printable walking tour (pdf format)
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Lakeridge Park and Taylor Creek (Seattle)
Lakeridge Park occupies more than 35 acres of Taylor Creek and Deadhorse Canyon in southeast Seattle. The park ia located south of the intersection of 68th Avenue S and Rainier Avenue S. Taylor Creek is the fourth largest creek in Seattle and is the site of an urban creek restoration program that will attract salmon back to the creek to spawn.
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Magnuson Park (Seattle)
The deactivation of the Sand Point Naval Air Station on Lake Washington in Northeast Seattle set off a years-long, bitter debate over uses for the land. Eventually, 195.6 acres were transferred to the City of Seattle, and 100 acres became the Western Headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Squabbles continued over whether the City should maintain an airport for light aircraft on its portion. Despite several initiatives and long-running court battles, the City finally dismantled the airstrip and converted the land into a park for recreational uses. It opened as Warren G. Magnuson Park, named after the long-serving U.S. Senator, on May 29, 1977. Controversy flared again in the 1990s, when the Navy announced it was designating as surplus its remaining 151 acres at Sand Point. The City again began to plan for use of this significant portion of real estate, all or some of which was to be added to Magnuson Park. Before plans coalesced in 1999, the Muckleshoot Indians, dog owners, advocates for the homeless, and Sand Point neighbors all became involved in the struggle over control and land use. Despite all the controversy, Magnuson Park has continued to be a haven and playground for kite flyers, boaters, swimmers, picnickers, skateboarders, ball players, and artists, to name just a few.
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Meadows Race Track
In the first decade of the twentieth century, The Meadows Race Track, located in King County south of Georgetown along the Duwamish River, was the premier venue in the Northwest for horse racing. The one-mile, dirt track also saw the Northwest's first automobile race in 1905 and its first demonstration of the airplane in 1910.
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Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI)
Seattle's Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) first opened the doors of its Montlake neighborhood facility to the public on February 15, 1952. The Museum's first exhibits displayed artifacts, documents, and photographs collected by the Seattle Historical Society since the 1910s. MOHAI's exhibits evolved slowly during the Museum's first 25 years, but its growth and public outreach accelerated in the 1980s and have now rendered its first home obsolete. As of 2006, the museum has under consideration two downtown sites. MOHAI could expand into the Washington State Trade & Convention Center, at 800 Pike Street, or into the former Naval Reserve Training Center, offered by Seattle Parks and Recreation Department as part of a new South Lake Union Park.
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NewHolly Branch, The Seattle Public Library, and its Neighborhood
The NewHolly Branch, The Seattle Public Library is located at 7058 32nd Avenue S, on Seattle's Beacon Hill. Completed in 1999, the NewHolly Library replaced the Holly Park Library, which was built at 7001 32nd Avenue S in 1943 to serve the World War II housing development of Holly Park. During the latter half of the twentieth century, Holly Park experienced rapid growth, and the old library became less functional to the community. The current building, designed by ARC architects, is part of a Campus of Learning that includes youth tutoring, Seattle Community College classes, child care services, and job placement and training. It was the first branch built under Seattle'd "Libraries for All" program, funded by a $196.4 million bond issue.
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North East Branch, The Seattle Public Library
The North East Branch, The Seattle Public Library, located at 6801 35th Avenue NE, had its origins in the Ravenna/View Ridge deposit station, begun in December 1945. The deposit station circulated so many books that in June 1952, it was made into the North East branch of the Seattle Public Library. A 1952 library bond issue failed at the polls, but the Seattle City Council stepped in to fund the creation of a library building for the neighborhood. . The North East branch building, designed by architect Paul Thiry and constructed in 1953, was designated a City of Seattle landmark in January 2001. Originally designed as a mid-sized branch, it has been one of the most patronized branches of the Seattle Public Library system. On April 19, 2003, it closed its doors for renovation and expansion. The new building, which doubled the square footage of the branch, opened in June 2004.
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Now & Then -- Seattle's Belltown Fire of 1910
This file contains Seattle historian and photographer Paul Dorpat's Now & Then photographs and reflections on a terrific fire that burned from the Seattle waterfront into Belltown on the night of June 10, 1910.
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First contingent of Denny party relocates to site of Seattle on April 3, 1852.
On April 3, 1852, the first contingent of the Denny party relocates from Alki Point to the eastern shore of Elliott Bay, the site of future downtown Seattle. Those who make the move on April 3 are: William Bell (1817-1887), Sarah Ann (Peter) Bell (1819-1856), the four Bell children, Carson Boren's wife Mary (Kays) Boren (1831-1906), the Boren infant Gertrude, Louisa Boren (b. 1827), and recent arrival Dr. David Maynard (1808-1873). The Arthur Denny family, ill with "ague" (malarial fever), remains on Alki Point for the time being.
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Charles Terry homesteads site of Alki business district on May 1, 1852.
On May 1, 1852, Charles C. Terry (1829-1867) officially homesteads on Alki Point. Many decades later, on this site, a West Seattle business district known as the Alki starts operating at about the intersection of 63rd Avenue SW & Alki Avenue SW.
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Plats filed for Town of Seattle on May 23, 1853.
On May 23, 1853, Arthur Denny (1822-1899), Carson Boren (1824-1912), and Dr. David S. Maynard (1808-1873) file the first plats for the Town of Seattle and establish the present-day street grid in Pioneer Square and downtown Seattle.
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Sand Point on Lake Washington is first surveyed on August 29, 1855, and opened for settlement.
On August 29, 1855, the area around the later-named Sand Point on the western shore of Lake Washington was surveyed, so that settlers could homestead the land and acquire it from the federal government. Indians had preceded the settlers by thousands of years, gathering various plants and animals from the point that juts into the lake. But the six-man survey crew led by William A. Strickler was perhaps the first group of EuroAmericans to walk over and explore Sand Point. After the survey was completed, the land was opened for settlement, but it would be 13 years before the first homesteader would settle on the point.
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M. D. Woodin acquires future site of Hillman City business district for settlement on July 9, 1863.
On July 9, 1863, M. D. Woodin homesteads a 160-acre area that includes the future Hillman City neighborhood of Seattle. In 1868, he receives his patent and gains ownership of the land.
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Seattle Neighborhoods: West Seattle business district site claimed for settlement on July 14, 1865.
On July 14, 1865, George Plummer makes a homestead claim on 160 acres of land that would become a business district in West Seattle located at California Avenue SW and SW Admiral Way. In 1869, he receives a patent from the federal government giving him ownership to the land. Because he was not allowed to homestead more than 160 acres, in 1865 he purchases for $1.25 per acre an additional 40 acres adjoining his homestead.
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Seattle Neighborhoods: Sand Point's first settler is William Goldmyer on September 5, 1868.
On September 5, 1868, William Goldmyer (1843-1924) is the first homesteader to settle on a point jutting into Lake Washington, later called Sand Point. (Sand Point in on the western, Seattle side of the lake). In his mid-20s, Goldmyer arrives in King County after hiking from California. He homesteads 81 acres immediately south of (the later named) Pontiac Bay. He establishes a farm, marries Rebecca Spray, and starts a family before selling the property in January 1878 and moving to Fall City in eastern King County.
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Phillip Ritz purchases site of Wallingford business district (Seattle) for settlement on June 3, 1869.
On June 3, 1869, Phillip Ritz purchases 80 acres from the federal government in what would become the Wallingford neighborhood of Seattle. (Ritz's land extends from the future Woodlawn to Meridian Avenue N and from N 40th to N 45th streets.) The following year, Dexter Horton (1825-1904) purchases 160 acres adjacent to Ritz's acreage. (Horton's land extends from the future N 42nd to 57th Street and from Meridian to 5th Avenue N.) They each paid $1.25 per acre.
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Erhart Seifried, known as Green Lake John, files a homestead claim on Green Lake (Seattle) on October 13, 1869.
On October 13, 1869, Erhart Seifried (1832-1899) files a claim under the Homestead Act for 131.66 timbered acres on Green Lake, which now (1999) define the north Seattle neighborhood of Green Lake. Seifried, known as Green Lake John, becomes the first white settler to occupy land on Green Lake. He arrives as an unmarried German immigrant, age 37.
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William Ladd makes first purchase of site of future West Seattle business district on November 1, 1869.
On November 1, 1869, the U.S. Government sells William Ladd 160 acres located at a portion of a future business districts of West Seattle. The following year I. C. Ellis acquires 280 acres from the Federal Government. They both pay $1.25 per acre for the land. A few decades later a West Seattle business district will form centered along California Avenue SW at SW Alaska Street.
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Washington Territory selects site of future Loyal Heights business district (Seattle) for school lands on May 24, 1870.
On May 24, 1870, Washington Territory selects the future Loyal Heights neighborhood of Seattle for school land. Loyal Heights is located in northwest Seattle, north of Ballard, on land that goes down to Shilshole Bay. In 1853, when the Federal Government established Washington Territory, it allowed the territory to retain two square miles out of each township (36 square miles) to be used for school purposes. In the township between Denny Way and NW 85th Street (including Magnolia, Ballard, and portions of Queen Anne and Loyal Heights), the sections usually allotted to the territory (sections 16 and 36) were found mostly under Puget Sound. In 1870, to make up for this deficiency, the territory chose for school land 527 acres in sections 1 and 2, which included the future site of the Loyal Heights retail district.
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W. S. Ladd purchases the site of Mount Baker business district (Seattle) for settlement on May 26, 1870.
On May 26, 1870, W. S. Ladd purchases 80 acres from the federal government in what would become business district of the Mount Baker neighborhood of Seattle. The total purchase price is $100.
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Higgins purchases first land from federal government in Seattle's future Crown Hill neighborhood on April 5, 1871.
On April 5, 1871, Christopher P. Higgins purchases 160 acres from the federal government in what would become a portion of the Crown Hill neighborhood of Seattle. Crown Hill is located in northwest Seattle, north of Loyal Heights and Ballard. Higgins paid $200 for the 100-square-block area. His purchase included land from NW 85th Street to 95th Street and from 15th to 24th avenues NW.
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William Knight becomes first purchaser of the site of Seattle's future Greenwood business district on June 28, 1872.
On June 28, 1872, William Knight purchases 159 acres from the federal government in what would become a part of the Greenwood retail district of Seattle. The Greenwood district is located in north Seattle, north of Green Lake. Knight paid $1.25 per acre for the real estate. His purchase included land that would later be bounded by 80th to 85th streets and 3rd Avenue NW to Aurora Avenue, plus 85th to 90th streets and Greenwood to Fremont avenues. The land northwest of NW 85th Street and Greenwood Avenue N was set aside for school purposes.
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Georgetown Beginnings: D'wamish Post Office opens on June 24, 1874.
The opening of a post office is an important marker of the beginning of a community. On June 24, 1874, the D'wamish Post Office opens. Henry H. Miller is appointed postmaster. On June 11, 1897, the name changes to Georgetown.
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Real-estate prices in Seattle's business district continue to increase in 1875.
In 1875, Henry Yesler (1810-1892) sells to James M. Colman a quarter of a city lot on the southeast corner of Commercial Street and Mill Street (renamed 1st Avenue S and Yesler Way) for $8,000. Yesler sells another portion of an adjoining lot to Anderson and Osborne (24 x 70 feet) for $6,000. These are by far the highest prices realized to date for Seattle real estate.
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City of Seattle buys site of future Volunteer Park in 1876.
In 1876, the City of Seattle buys the site of the future Volunteer Park. Volunteer Park is located on Capitol Hill between E Prospect and E Galer streets and Federal Avenue E and 15th Avenue E. The land is first used as a cemetery, then as a city park. In 1901, the reservoir is built to hold water piped to Seattle from the Cedar River. In 1903, the park is redesigned by the Olmsted Bros. and in 1907 the Volunteer Park water tower is built. In 1933, the Seattle Art Museum opens in Volunteer Park. It is rededicated as the Seattle Asian Art Museum in 1994.
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King County Hospital begins operation in Georgetown in May 1877.
In May 1877, three nuns from the Roman Catholic Sisters of Charity of the House of Providence open the poor home and hospital in Georgetown on a contract with King County. After 14 months, they find the facility inadequate and move to their own hospital in Seattle. King County will reopen the Georgetown hospital in May 1890 and continued at that location until 1956.
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Site of Seattle's Phinney Ridge business district first acquired for settlement on October 4, 1879.
On October 4, 1879, James Freed purchases 80 acres from the federal government in what would become the Phinney Ridge neighborhood of Seattle. The following year, Benjamin Freed purchases 160 acres. They each pay $1.25 per acre.
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Seattle School Board deplores school decrepitude in January 1882.
In January 1882, the Seattle School Board holds a public meeting to lament the deplorable and inadequate facilities and to gain public support for funding new buildings. One teacher, speaking of crowded conditions in the South School (built in 1872 at S 12th Avenue and Lane Street) informs the board that if the classroom became more crowded she would find more space by "hanging the little fellows up on the hooks on the walls of the room" (Erigero).
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7424 East Greenlake Way: A Seattle Reminiscence
This reminiscence of a beloved childhood house in Seattle's Green Lake neighborhood of the 1920s was written by Dorothea Nordstrand (b. 1916), who has lived in the vicinity for much of her life. In 2009 Dorothea Nordstrand was awarded AKCHO's (Association of King County Historical Organizations) Willard Jue Memorial Award for a Volunteer, in part for contributing these vivid reminiscences to HistoryLink.org's People's History library.
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A Librarian's Lamentation (Green Lake Branch, The Seattle Public Library, June 30, 1928)
This is a quarterly branch report written by Green Lake Branch librarian Ruth A. Dennis. In the report reprinted here, Dennis explains that the circulation numbers at her branch are down, particularly the juvenile numbers, and attributes this situation to the recent opening of the Greenwood-Phinney Branch. Dennis begins her report with a quote from the biblical book Lamentations, a collection of songs lamenting the fall of the city of Jerusalem, and continues in suit.
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A Matter of Pride: A Seattle Reminiscence About Hard Times by Dorothea Nordstrand
Dorothea (Pfister) Nordstrand (b. 1916) wrote this reminiscence about a mother's courage and industrious good cheer during hard times. The mother was Mary Annie (Gierhofer) Pfister (1888-1962). In 2009 Dorothea Nordstrand was awarded AKCHO's (Association of King County Historical Organizations) Willard Jue Memorial Award for a Volunteer, in part for contributing these vivid reminiscences to HistoryLink.org's People's History library.
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Blue Moon Tavern (Seattle): A Reminiscence by James Knisely
James Knisely contributed this reminiscence of Seattle's renowned Blue Moon Tavern, located in the University District on NE 45th Street. The Blue Moon has been the favored watering hole of poets, bohemians, politicos, artists, and writers, including Knisely, who was born and raised in Seattle. He studied writing at the University of Washington with Theodore Roethke and David Wagoner, and more recently with Jack Cady and at Richard Hugo House in Seattle. His novel Chance: An Existential Horse Opera was a finalist for the 2003 Washington State Book Awards. He wanders from time to time through the Moon.
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Charles Fletcher - Memories of an operator on the interurban
Charles Fletcher left the following account of his work on the Seattle, Renton and Southern Railway in the 1920s and 1930s. This electric interurban connected downtown Seattle with Renton along Rainier Avenue S. Fletcher's reminiscence is taken from "Centennial History: Columbia City, Rainier Valley, 1853-1991," dated 1992, and compiled Carey Summers for Pioneers of Columbia City, Rainier Valley Historical Society, Seattle, Washington.
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Creating Cal Anderson Park by Kay Rood
Cal Anderson Park, a beautifully renovated and expanded park on Seattle's Capitol Hill, re-opened on September 24, 2005. Originally one of Seattle's Olmsted-designed parks (named "Lincoln Park,"), it had by 1993 deteriorated into weeds, trash, and a graffiti-covered rest room, and was avoided by community members as a druggy and dangerous place. Kay Rood and the community organization Groundswell Off Broadway was a prime mover in the process of organizing to rebuild the park into a beautiful community asset with an undergrounded reservoir, a playground, community buildings, a water feature, paths, gardens, and benches. This is Kay Rood's story of the long process of rebuilding the park, which is named for Cal Anderson, Washington's first openly gay legislator.
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Dorothea Nordstrand Remembers a School Play on Green Lake (Seattle), in the 1920s
In this reminiscence, Green Lake resident Dorothea Nordstrand remembers playing Indians in a play based on Longfellow's "Hiawatha" performed by the pupils of Green Lake Elementary School in 1922 or 1923. In 2009 Dorothea Nordstrand was awarded AKCHO's (Association of King County Historical Organizations) Willard Jue Memorial Award for a Volunteer, for contributing these vivid reminiscences to various venues in our community, including HistoryLink.org's People's History library.
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Dorothea Nordstrand Remembers Ice Skating on Green Lake in 1930
In this reminiscence, Dorothea Nordstrand recalls the winter of 1930 when Green Lake froze over. The freeze became the occasion for a carnival of bonfires, skaters, waltz music, and the supreme sensation of flying over Green Lake ice. This piece appeared in The Seattle Times in 1993 and is reprinted here with kind permission. In 2009 Dorothea Nordstrand was awarded AKCHO's (Association of King County Historical Organizations) Willard Jue Memorial Award for a Volunteer, for contributing these vivid reminiscences to various venues in our community, including HistoryLink.org's People's History library.
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Dorothea Nordstrand Remembers School Days on Green Lake (Seattle) in the 1920s
In this reminiscence, Dorothea (Pfister) Nordstrand (b. 1916) recalls school days in the 1920s in the marshy land of Seattle's Green Lake neighborhood. In 2009 Dorothea Nordstrand was awarded AKCHO's (Association of King County Historical Organizations) Willard Jue Memorial Award for a Volunteer, for contributing these vivid reminiscences to various venues in our community, including HistoryLink.org's People's History library.
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Dorothea Nordstrand Remembers the Coming of Interstate 5
In this People's History, Dorothea (Pfister) Nordstrand (b. 1916), resident of Seattle's Green Lake neighborhood, remembers the neighborhood before and after Interstate 5 cut through it during the 1950s. Dorothea Nordstrand has lived in Seattle since the family moved here about 1920. In 2009 Dorothea Nordstrand was awarded AKCHO's (Association of King County Historical Organizations) Willard Jue Memorial Award for a Volunteer, for contributing these vivid reminiscences to various venues in our community, including HistoryLink.org's People's History library.
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Dorothea Nordstrand Remembers Thornton Creek (Seattle) in the 1930s
Thornton Creek rose somewhere near Meridian (near Seattle's Green Lake),
meandered through some very black, boggy wetland, thence along or maybe
under, what is now the South parking lot of Northgate Mall, and ran its
sparkling way eastward until it emptied into Lake Washington. In this reminiscence, originally published in the Jet City Maven, Dorothea Nordstrand recalls what it was like living along the creek during the 1930s. In 2009 Dorothea Nordstrand was awarded AKCHO's (Association of King County Historical Organizations) Willard Jue Memorial Award for a Volunteer, for contributing these vivid reminiscences to various venues in our community, including HistoryLink.org's People's History library.
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Dorothea Nordstrand tells the story of Hooch the wondrous cat, resident of Green Lake (Seattle)
In this People's History of the Green Lake neighborhood, Dorothea (Pfister) Nordstrand tells the story of Hooch, the wondrous cat. The Daddy in this story is Joseph Pfister (1883-1947), and the Mom is Mary Annie (Gierhofer) Pfister (1888-1962). In 2009 Dorothea Nordstrand was awarded AKCHO's (Association of King County Historical Organizations) Willard Jue Memorial Award for a Volunteer, for contributing these vivid reminiscences to various venues in our community, including HistoryLink.org's People's History library.
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Dorothea Nordstrand's Green Lake (Seattle) Memory: The Fish and the Vietnam Vet
In this People's History, Dorothea Nordstrand recalls an early morning encounter between two Green Lake neighbors taking an early morning walk during the mid-1970s, a Vietnam Vet, and his large fish. In 2009 Dorothea Nordstrand was awarded AKCHO's (Association of King County Historical Organizations) Willard Jue Memorial Award for a Volunteer, for contributing these vivid reminiscences to various venues in our community, including HistoryLink.org's People's History library.
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Elmer Yates remembers the day the Big Leaguers came to Dugdale Park in 1931
Elmer S. Yates (b. 1917) was raised in the Rainier Valley and attended Franklin High School. He went to sea and became a ship's captain. In 1996, he wrote to the Rainier Valley Historical Society from his home in Tampa, Florida, about the day in 1931 that Big League baseball players visited Seattle's Dugdale Park.
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Elmer Yates remembers the Seattle Times Pitcher's Contest in the Rainier Valley
Elmer Yates (b. 1917) was raised in the Rainier Valley and attended Franklin High School. He went to sea and became a ship's captain. In 1996, he wrote to the Rainier Valley Historical Society from his home in Tampa, Florida, about The Seattle Times Pitcher's Contest and "Old Woodenface."
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Elmer Yates remembers the Toonerville Trolley in the Rainier Valley.
Elmer Yates (b. 1917) was raised in the Rainier Valley and graduated from Franklin High School in 1934. He went to sea and became a ship's captain. In about 1996, he wrote to the Rainier Valley Historical Society about his memories of public transit in the Rainier Valley.
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John D. Parker recalls the 1921 explosion of the Hitt's Fireworks factory in the Rainier Valley.
In 1999, 90-year old John Parker of Port Ludlow penned
this account of the 1921 explosion of the Hitt's Fireworks factory in the Rainier Valley. One woman working at the plant was killed.
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Kirk, Priscilla Maunder: An Oral History
Priscilla Maunder Kirk (1898-1992), an African American Seattleite, was born on August 9, 1898, in Seattle. In 1919 she moved to Montana with her husband, where she lived until 1929. She also lived in Minnesota before returning to Seattle in 1955. This is an excerpt of an oral history interview of Priscilla Kirk Maunder done by Esther Mumford on June 18, 1975, as part of the Washington State Oral History Project. Priscilla Maunder Kirk died on November 14, 1992.
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Last Call at the Dog House: A Reminiscence by Floyd Waterson
In this file Floyd Waterson describes the last night of the Dog House, a Seattle restaurant/bar located at 7th Avenue and Bell Street (at 2230 7th Avenue). Run by Laurie Gulbransen (1913-2000) for most of 60 years, it closed in on January 31, 1994. Of the Dog House Bar, John Hahn writes in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer "The Dog House was an epoch of Seattle history, a virtually non-stop, open-24-hours run of food, booze, music and fellowship..."
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Lessons in Life: Dorothea Nordstrand Remembers her Years at Seattle's Green Lake State Bank
In this People's History Dorothea (Pfister) Nordstrand (b. 1916) reflects on the lessons learned while working at Seattle's Green Lake State Bank, where she worked for 10 years from the time she was 18 in 1934. Her essay is reprinted from The Seattle Times, where it appeared on January 9, 1994. In 2009 Dorothea Nordstrand was awarded AKCHO's (Association of King County Historical Organizations) Willard Jue Memorial Award for a Volunteer, for contributing these vivid reminiscences to various venues in our community, including HistoryLink.org's People's History library.
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