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a related post:

“Descent into SEATAC”

http://jonspnw.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/descent-into-seatac/

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Via: My Fox Spokane

You know this had to hurt: A man in Prefontaine Place Park was found by police and firefighters straddling a fire he had set in an abandoned fountain.

According to police, the man was wearing “crotchless chaps-style spandex with his genitals and buttocks showing,” Seattle’s Publicola” reports.

When police and firefighters arrived at the park, located at Third Avenue and Yesler Way, about 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, they found the man letting the flames touch his genitals and buttocks, a park department spokeswoman said.

The man told an officer that he was having a “weenie roast” as he gyrated over the flame.

Firefighters put out the fire and police had the man involuntary committed to Harborview for a mental evaluation.

http://www.myfoxspokane.com/news/kcpq-burnt-weenie-man-tries-to-roast-his-privates-20110909,0,7081345.story

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Via: HistoryLink.org

On September 5, 1911, a long struggle for control of Seattle’s central waterfront climaxes when King County voters approve the Port of Seattle district and elect the first three Port Commissioners, Gen. Hiram Chittenden (1858-1917), Robert Bridges, and Charles Remsberg.

The election is a high water mark for the local Progressive Movement, which advocates public control of essential facilities and utilities, and a pivotal defeat for the railroads that had dominated Seattle’s harbor since 1874 thanks to imprudent municipal concessions.

The Port of Seattle is today (1999) managed by an elected five-member Commission and remains the central engine of the King County economy through its control of the Seattle harbor, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, and other key assets.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?displaypage=output.cfm&file_id=1002

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personal thought:

I know the ‘tunnel project’, has both pluses and minuses.

However, I believe opening up the waterfront to downtown, might be the best thing to happen to the city for a long time.

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Via: Seattle Weekly

When New York photojournalist Burt Glinn passed away in April this year, his work happened to be on display at SAM. Now its supplemental “Burt Glinn: 35 Years of Northwest History” (through Sept. 14) pays homage to the man who documented the Cold War as a member of the famous Magnum photo agency. He shot Khrushchev and Castro, and celebs including Elizabeth Taylor too.

But the focus here is on images created in Seattle, where he lived during the ’50s and ’60s, sometimes on assignment for Life magazine. From a West Seattle High School cheerleader adoring her mud-stained football jock to a look at our jazz scene, Glinn had a keen eye for the moment.

And nothing beats Glinn’s images of the Seattle Tubing Society floating down the Sammamish Slough with drinks in hand and outrageous (outrageous? don’t think so) costumes sticking to their skin. That’s how summers should be spent. And that’s how photographers should capture local history.

http://www.seattleweekly.com/2008-07-30/calendar/burt-glinn-35-years-of-northwest-history/

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There are many MORE, here:

http://thestartrail.tumblr.com/

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http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/I?detr:1:./temp/~ammem_3CDg::displayType=1:m856sd=det:m856sf=4a16785:@@@det

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http://search.tacomapubliclibrary.org/postcard/postcardfull.asp?db=3027

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Via: HistoryLink.org

On May 6, 1896, 36-year-old suffragist Helga Estby (1860-1942)  and her 18-year-old daughter Clara (1877-1950) begin an unescorted trek from their home in Mica Creek to New York City. Their walk is a publicity wager that they expect will bring them $10,000 and save their family farm from foreclosure.

Following the railroad tracks east, they will walk between 25 to 35 miles a day on a seven-month trip across 1890s America. They will cross mountains, battle severe storms, survive bitter cold and heat waves, encounter hobos and highwaymen, a mountain lion, and rattlesnakes.

Along the way they will meet famous politicians, Native Americans, journalists, and suffragists, collecting autographs of many notables.  Helga and Clara will keep a trip journal that they hope to publish.  Surviving the trip of 4,600 miles, they will reach New York on December 23, 1896, . . .

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You can read about their amazing journey, HERE:

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9847

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