The Alaskan Way Viaduct is gone, but you can now claim a chunk of the elevated freeway and save it as a historic souvenir of our changing city. Dusty pieces of pulverized concrete are laid out on a ...
Ten million people attended the Seattle World’s Fair over the course of its six month run. Jean Roth was one of them and she was there on opening day: April 21, 1962. That day was also Roth’s 18th ...
Editor’s note: Pacific NW magazine’s weekly Backstory provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the writer’s process or an extra tidbit that accompanies our cover story. This week’s cover story explores ...