Throwback City
Stories from Seattle and Puget Sound's past that resonate today.
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What killed grunge?
Seattle was the capital of grunge… until grunge was no longer a thing. So what happened?
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What's that big yellow box perched on Phinney Ridge?
The air raid siren is about the size of a VW Beetle, weighs almost 3 tons and was loud enough to be heard a mile and a half away.
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A mysterious dot on an old map, and a Washington man’s quest to find it
This is the story of a missing town south of Seattle, and Nick Millward, a man who loves maps and sometimes has trouble sleeping at night.
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With $100, a Seattle teenager launched the company that would become UPS
If you’ve been on the Seattle Underground Tour, you know that UPS launched here.
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How my 90-year-old neighbor, a Holocaust survivor, sees America today
One of the world's biggest cities was once a safe haven for Jewish refugees. During World War II, more than 18,000 Jews sought refuge in Shanghai. They witnessed the war from a perspective that often goes unheard. My neighbor Werner Glass is one of them.
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Eat your heart out, Elon Musk: Behold these ugly electric cars from Seattle's past
Tesla tried to go mass market last year by starting production on the Model 3 – price tag starting at $35,000. It didn’t go well.
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Seattle’s first black cop meets a killer over checkers
Horace Cayton was an African-American sociologist born in Seattle in 1903. His father was born a slave; his mother was the daughter of the first black U...
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A walk in Seattle with my father, who was born a slave
Horace Cayton was an African-American sociologist born in Seattle in 1903. His father was born a slave; his mother was the daughter of the first black U...
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Not in your history book: When white strikers abducted black workers on a Seattle streetcar
Horace Cayton was an African-American sociologist born in Seattle in 1903. His father was born a slave; his mother was the daughter of the first black U...
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POLAROIDS: How Seattle's signature hot dog got its cream cheese
Mara Dillinger stood at a hot dog cart in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, eating her fourth hot dog of the night.
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Ghosts of Japanese internment rise from Supreme Court travel ban ruling
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld President Trump’s latest travel ban that barred people entering the U.S. from five majority Muslim countries...
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The tragic reason Seattle Center never got a SeaWorld
Fifty years ago, Seattle was trying to decide what do with its center attraction in the wake of the World’s Fair. One man came forward with the idea of...