All This Is That

By Jack Brummet, Seattle History Ed. You've probably read about,or seen , Edith Masefield's house in Ballard.  She was a holdout. ...

By Jack Brummet, Seattle Neighborhoods Ed. A longtime local resident  KeeKee  and I met in a bar in Georgetown, Seattle. click to enlar...

By Mona Goldwater, Seattle History Ed. Photo from the Seattle Museum of History & Industry  The Seattle Cedar mill, just west of ...

By Jack Brummet, Seattle Ed. The Museum of History and Industry opened this year in Seattle in a beautiful new (to them) building (a con...

By Jack Brummet, Seattle Metro Editor The Hat 'n' Boots  now reside in Oxbow Park in the  Georgetown  neighborhood of  Seattle. ...

This is a sonnet I wrot e for my wife many years ago, tossed aside, and recently resurrected, and revised. The Embassy Theater mentioned i...

By Jack Brummet Seattle History Editor M ost of the time I was in high school, there were protests, moratoriums, sit-downs, the first ea...

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The landmark Buckaroo Tavern in Fremont closed this weekend.  They had one of the best neon signs in all of Seattle. ---o0o---

By Jack Brummet, All This Is That Social Mores and Ethics Correspondent with additional research by Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Editor, I...

The Aurora Bridge is about to acquire a suicide barrier.   Hallelujah!  This makes me so happy. The Aurora Bridge is the second most &qu...

It's the economic slump, and according to the manager, high quality porn on the internet; whatever the cause, The Lusty Lady is closin...

The Beatles fishing from their hotel window at Seattle's Edgewater Inn. You can still fish there. Led Zeppelin famously dropped a line,...

click to enlarge This photo is probably from about 1900 (the flags are 45 star, which they were from 1896-1908), taken at the corner of Se...

In February, 2001, we experienced a serious (6.8) earthquake in Seattle. This is a video shot at our office during the 'quake. Sort o...

click to enlarge " What do they call this --Bar Mitzvah? Where you come out as a man? I think Seattle was kind of like that for me. . ....

T HE AUTHENTIC TEXT OF CHIEF SEATTLE'S TREATY ORATION 1854 by Chief Seattle a/k/a Sealth It matters little where we pass the remnant of...

click on Ballard to enlarge, Photo by Jack Johnson. Source: Washington State Archives. General Photograph Collection. Used with permission...

Along with 18 pound horses and hippopotamuses (or hippopotami ), this Big Big Bird, Diatryma, lived in The Pacific Northwest before us. Its...

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