I’ve blogged something every day in 2019, save for June 16 and I’m still not sure what happened there. This seemed like a good place to go out on and wrap up the series.
From HistoryLink and Phil Dougherty:
On December 31, 1932, medicinal liquor becomes available in Seattle after…
The Emerald Queen Casino has been such an important part of the Tacoma area for over 20 years now. It’s probably one of the most recognizable casinos in the Northwest, and some of their billboards along I-5, I swear, can be seen from space.
A very necessary Happy Birthday is due to one of Seattle’s most long-running theaters. It opened 112 years ago today and it remains an excellent place to see a show.
From Eric L. Flom of HistoryLink:
On December 28, 1907, an overflow crowd of nearly 3,000 jams into Seattle’s new…
In March of 2009, Hearst turned the Seattle Post-Intelligencer into an online-only newspaper, which was a damn tragedy. But the PI has been a Hearst property for almost 100 years now, as an editorial announced the acquisition 98 years ago today.
On December 27, 1921, the fact that…
Prohibition, what a time to be alive!
From HistoryLink and Greg Lange:
On December 26, 1923, during Prohibition, a search warrant is issued to King County Sheriff Department to search 3214 Magnolia Boulevard in Seattle’s Magnolia neighborhood. …
It’s a Christmas miracle!
From Dorothea Nordstrand and HistoryLink, this story is remarkable:
Christmas of 1851 found a great change at New York Alki, the place of the very beginning of our city of Seattle. Only six short weeks had passed since the Arthur Denny party had made their historic…
Seattle Met magazine called it “one of the most heinous crimes in Seattle history.” It is quite ghastly and horrifying.
In the great article about the case, James Ross Gardner writes:
For more than 30 years, anniversaries have come and gone, essentially unobserved, at least publicly, and the reasons why…
The outbreak of mad cow disease was both a very big deal in 2003, and the subject of way too many late night talk show jokes. But the US outbreak began in a town I hadn’t heard of, Mabton, in Yakima County.
According to Kit Oldham at HistoryLink:
On December…
Depression-era Washington state had a big menace on their hands that needed to be addressed: jazz music. Really.
As Peter Blecha wrote in HistoryLink:
On December 22, 1933, amid growing fears over the perceived threat posed by that relatively new fad, jazz music, Washington State Representative William A. Allen submits…
