There’s no covering up the message of this masked boy
WHEN WE WEIGH how to respond to big issues, we often ponder the effect on children, who represent the future. That’s what makes this week’s “Then”...
Now & Then
Clay Eals and Jean Sherrard dig into our rich local history, sharing images and stories from Seattle’s past.
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Seattle arose from a tortuously transformed Duwamish River
WHEN WE THINK of waters that define Seattle, which ones come to mind? Puget Sound and Elliott Bay, with Lake Washington and Lake Union close behind....
In challenging times, the Post Office delivers human connection VIEW
WHEN IT OPENED in October 1852, Seattle’s first postal station was little more than a mahogany desk in Arthur Denny’s log cabin at what is now...
Five-cent Triple XXX took root around Seattle as a popular 1930s brew
BEFORE GOOGLE, there was “Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable.” My aunt Dorothy Johnson, sensing my pending writing career, presented 18-year-old me with the red-covered,...
Keen-eyed kid embodies Seattle’s zeal for 1942 scrap-metal drive
YOU MIGHT CALL Jerry Calnan a scrappy little sheriff. The 5-year-old leveled an intense glare when photographed in October 1942 sitting on an old water...
Historic downtown church confronts Seattle’s ‘original sin’
THIS PAST JAN. 25, during an evening lecture at Plymouth Congregational Church, historian David Buerge spoke of the city’s “original sin”: 54,000 acres taken from...
Cable-car bells signaled ‘back to normal’ after the 1889 Great Seattle Fire
HAVE YOU EVER unearthed an old family photo you’d never seen before? Instantly, it’s a treasure. Seattle has its own family album, with familiar images of...
For West Seattle’s bridge, if at first you don’t succeed, secede!
SOUNDS SCREWY, but having reported on it when it was built, I still call it the new bridge: The busy West Seattle Bridge, until recently...
Help us solve the mystery of this Suess & Smith masterwork
THIS WEEK, WE present a puzzle. It centers on a national innovator in aesthetic glass that brightened downtown Seattle more than a century ago. The...
Jefferson school days echo in the May memories of its West Seattle students
IN OUR CORONAVIRAL days of school closures and social distancing, and with May Day here, this week’s “Then” image might be poignant. It depicts 130...
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