All This Is That

By Jack Brummet, South King County Editor [From All This Is That eight years ago.  This is one of Jack's several dozen posts on gro...

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A damaged slide of Jack by Keelin Curran,  "restoration (scraping some strange goo off the slide)"/digitization by Jack Brummet ...

Yes, I did teethe on my Grandfather Dell Galvin's hook arm. Dell was my maternal Grandmother's third, and final husband. This was...

click to enlarge - my Grandpa Del (his hook arm is hidden) and Grandma Galvin By Jack Brummet - Originally published here on January 26, 20...

Jack, and John Newton Brummet II, camping on the Bumping River on Mount Rainier - click to enlarge Articles, posts, and screeds, on Jac...

By Jack Brummet Folk Life Editor My father, John Newton Brummet, Jr. [I'm his namesake] enlisted in the army when he was about 17. ...

This is the theatre where I learned to love movies.  It was built in about 1946, roughly when this photograph was taken.  The only photo I ...

A man wearing only a pair of woman's thong panties n his head has become the first person arrested under Boulder'...

Click to enlarge - Jack and Dell Galvin, 1953 To prove that I do have Hillbilly cred, I submit this photo. It's 1953 and I am teethin...

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Valley Elementary held two or three square dances a year and they were the coolest thing in town, but the Lettuce Festival, Puyallup Fair (...

How I became Jack Brummet I was working for a magazine in Seattle called Construction Data. On my first day on the job, my boss, McGoo, wa...

This photo of Kent's Meeker Street, about three blocks west of the Bus Depot, was taken in 1945, about 15 years before the events descri...

click to enlarge - Vicki Lenti on the Staten Island Ferry (with Our Lady Of the Harbor in the distance) Vicki Lenti, or Moto, as we often c...

I have been [very slowly and spasmodically ] attempting to winnow a manuscript of 280 pages of poetry (already down from 350) into somethin...

click to enlarge This was probably my last paying gig (and probably only my third, ever) reading poetry. You can see why I don't do tha...

click to enlarge Kev must have given this to me sometime in the early to mid-80's. It *seems* to be an outtake from a photo session fo...

Click to enlarge the floating bridge, ship canal, and Lake Washington. I have driven from my home in Seattle over this pontoon bridge ever...