All This Is That

By Jack Brummet, '60's Ed. This song came out in the middle of the Southeast Asian "conflict" ('68), not long befor...

By Jack Brummet, Counterculture Ed. It is the anniversary of Neal Cassady's  birth and death this week.  Most articles talk abou...

By Jack Brummet, Green River Valley Ed. There were three drive-ins in Kent , but we mostly went to the El Rancho, because it...

By Jack Brummet, Green River Valley Editor This photo of Kent's Meeker Street, about three blocks west of the Bus Depot, was taken i...

By Jack Brummet, American Music Ed. The Beach Boys and the recently departed Annette Funicello sing the opening track in the movie The Mo...

This 1960 photo is a view of Ballard in Seattle.  The Bardahl Manufacturing sign is still around...not sure about the WaMu sign (I su...

Rumble At The Housing Project is a rare book published in 1960.  Most of the copies of this first edition 35 cent paperback original that I...

By Jack Brummet Seattle History Correspondent I worked part time as a draft counselor in a community center in 1970-72.  We worked mostl...

This live video is not quite up to their recorded version , but fascinating nonetheless. ---o0o---

When I was growing up, the drive-in theatre was a cheap place for families to go. I remember the El Rancho drive-in in Kent, Wash., for ma...

This is a fascinating clip of Jim Morrison well before The Doors, in 1963, acting in a PSA video. Not what you might have expected from the...