Paul Dorpat digs into our rich local history, sharing images and stories from Seattle’s past.
SINCE 2005, WHEN I began contributing photos to this column, whenever flakes of snow begin to fall, I pack a camera bag and hit the...
WHAT COMES TO mind with the word “roadhouse?” For me, the answer is cinematic — the scenes of Madonna and others in the 1992 film...
ADVERTISING THAT PATRONS would “trip the light fantastic,” the legendary Trianon Ballroom, designed by architect Warren H. Milner, opened its doors on May 20, 1927,...
DO YOU RECALL a mom-and-pop grocery from your younger years, perhaps a favorite where you actually shopped? For my grade-school friends and me on Mercer...
BEGIN WITH A taste test. Fill a glass with water straight from the tap. Take a sip. Before swallowing, swish it between your teeth and...
EVEN AMID TODAY'S existential climate change, like others, I often find the need to hop in my car to drive across town. But on Oct....
IN OUR RAPIDLY changing cityscape — where viaducts may crumble, buildings may tumble and residents surely grumble — we depend on increasingly fewer fixed points...
IT'S A GAME I play with others while on a Bainbridge or Bremerton ferry, or at West Seattle’s Hamilton Viewpoint Park down the street from...
The decade has seen some powerful movements — people organizing around shared causes to create change. Just as the civil rights movement fought back against...
Fred Hutchinson's grandson returned to the Mariners' ballpark to honor one of Seattle's greatest baseball heroes.
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