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Fremont Drug Company in Seattle, Part Three: from Drugstore to Red Door
The Red Door restaurant was in the Fremont Drug Company building which was moved to its present site, 3401 Evanston Avenue, in the year 2001. This original Fremont Drug Company building was built in 1895 at 3401 Fremont Avenue. Founded … Continue reading
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Fremont Drug Company in Seattle, Part Two: the Brothers and the Business
The census of the year 1900 showed that at age 24, Thomas W. Lough had already experienced extremes of joys and heartaches in his life. At age 21 in January 1898, Thomas married Vina Graham in a ceremony at the … Continue reading
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Fremont Drug Company in Seattle, Part One: Beginnings
In the 1880s the City of Seattle had been growing slowly and was only the second-largest city in Washington Territory, after Walla Walla. At the end of that decade, Seattle experienced a growth spurt from an unexpected source: a major … Continue reading
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The Naming of Seattle
Along with the story of the naming of Seattle’s downtown streets, here on this blog I have also explored ways to find out the meaning of street names outside of the downtown area. The origins of the naming of the … Continue reading
Doctors and Drugstores in Early Fremont, Seattle
The story of Seattle’s Great Fire of June 6, 1889, was widely publicized in national newspapers, including the response of Seattle leaders who pulled together immediately to commence rebuilding the downtown business zone. Across the USA people recognized the opportunity … Continue reading
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The Canney Family and the Lake Union Presbyterian Church
The Fremont neighborhood of Seattle is located at the northwest corner of Lake Union, which Seattle’s early-arriving white settlers recognized as an ideal location for industries such as sawmills. Even though the future-Fremont site was the 1854 homestead claim of William … Continue reading
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Freedom in Fremont: An Early Gas Station in Seattle
In the early 1900s nationalist fervor built up in Europe until the tensions exploded into the First World War from 1914 to 1918. When Germany declared war on Russia, it set off power struggles within that country which ended Russia’s … Continue reading
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Wedgwood and the Inaugural Day Storm of 1993
It was January 20, 1993, the day of the inauguration of incoming president Bill Clinton, and I was watching the ceremony and events of the day on TV. I lived in an apartment on the NE 77th Street side of … Continue reading
Centennial of the Seattle General Strike of 1919
The Labor Archives of Washington will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1919 Seattle General Strike with a series of events in coming weeks and in an exhibit on the University of Washington campus. There will be book readings, documentary … Continue reading
The Roosevelt Heights Additions in Seattle
By the time that the new Northeast Branch Library, 6801 35th Ave NE, opened in 1954, the previous land owners had been gone for quite a few years and it was a different landowner who had sold the site to … Continue reading
Wedgwood in Seattle History 