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This photograph shows Dugdale Baseball Park at Rainier Avenue and McClellan Street, home of the Seattle Indians of the Pacific Coast...

The holidays bring back many memories of family celebrations and the way things were when we were children. Neighborhoods also have...

The date is 1902. Car #20 of the Seattle, Renton & Southern RY., traveling southbound, has just crested the hill between Genesee and...

South Seattle has many schools with interesting histories. Our children attend newer, rebuilt schools, such as Muir and Whitworth, or...

This photo shows the Columbia Mill that was built in 1890, the same year the streetcar tracks were laid starting at Railroad Avenue on...

The date is January 1938. The event is the dedication ceremonies for the new Snoqualmie Ski Bowl near Hyak Station at the east entrance...

The upper, 1891 photo was taken in Columbia City, the year the first lots were sold there and a year after the streetcar line was put in....

It took a lot of lobbying by the local citizenry to convince the downtown officials to build a library in Columbia City. With grants from...

This photo was taken in 1912. The location was the southeast corner of Rainier and Alaska Street in Columbia City, where the Post Office...

This photo was taken about 1905 looking North along Rainier Avenue from Hudson Street. The building on the left housed the equipment for...

The Tower at the ‘Columbia School, seen here in 1906, was the original home of the bell that has since been kept in storage at Orca at...

Nineteen ninety-six marked an important milestone for one of the area’s oldest churches. Bethlehem Lutheran Church celebrated its...

Rainier Valley has seen a lot of traffic revision these last few weeks.  We have many new traffic circles, sidewalks and curbs, thanks to...

One of Columbia’s most active and civic-minded businessmen was William W. Phalen: grocer, baseball player, and town mayor. Phalen settles...

Residents of Rainier Valley are blessed with many beautiful parks and green spaces in which to play.  This area was important to Seattle...

Several years ago I had the pleasure of listening to a gem of history as I interviewed Ralph Nichols Jr. The history he had to tell was...