Just published - the real story of Elise Olmstead, wife of Seattle's "Gentleman Bootlegger," including some never before seen photographs of Roy, Elise, and the Olmstead Mount Baker home, available on Amazon.

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I'm looking for a particular image or video of the bumper (I think it was the bumper) of Subculture Joe's pickup truck that he abandoned next to Westlake Mall in 1996 with The Heart of Seattle sculpture in its bed. The phrase, written by kids he had worked with said something about the group and ended with, "the bomb". "Bomb" in that context means, of course, the good or cool thing they were talking about (him or his truck, I've heard both).

Then the cops pigs freaked out and shut down that part of downtown and then the media lost its shit, then the government lost its shit, and they all dogpiled on Joe. I was not involved, I only paid attention, and it was horrific to see so many commentators dumping on him for causing this panic that had actually clearly been caused by the cops pigs.

I was downtown that day, just a few blocks away and I remember people leaving for food and coming back into the building mentioning the truck, well before the police pig freakout and lockdown. There were cops pigs standing next to it chatting, long before anyone thought to notice the sentence scrawled on the bumper that included the words, "the bomb."

I remember seeing very early on, a picture or video on the local news that showed the phrase in context, and then I remember clearly never seeing the context again, only the one word "bomb" with everything else cropped out. It seemed a clear move to keep it sensational by refusing to provide context.

I got distracted by life and I never learned the tragedy of his mental health crisis in jail, that changed him. I didn't learn that he converted to christianity, nor that he had been killed by a train in Mississippi with no witnesses. I'm even sadder now. That just looks to me like yet another poor sucker who got stomped on by the full weight of the government and media manipulation and died because of it. Another Aaron Swartz maybe. It sickens me that they can just fuck with people like that.

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I attended an underground Seattle tour today and they mentioned that rock and granite from the Cascades we brought in to help with the infrastructure rebuild. I don't recall any train racks laid east west. Does anyone know how this was done? I find it hard to believe they did barges down the Columbia, to the Pacific to the Sound to do this.

I'm in Canada so I don't have local access. I've contacted Seafair, as well as the Museum of History and Industry, and neither could tell me.

I'm just trying to find out the dates of the Seattle Seafair for 1959. Was it Aug 1 - 10?

Does anyone here have any info?

Thanks.

I just finished reading Skid Road and now I’m trying to figure out where some of those places would’ve actually sat in relation to each other. Does anyone know of any landmark or similar maps that show Seattle circa 1885/1900?

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For over 80 years, images taken by renowned Pacific Northwest photographer Asahel Curtis in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were collecting dust in boxes. Curtis photographed Mount Rainier, railroads and everyday people doing everyday things. 

Now, these negatives are finally coming to light as the Washington State Historical Society undertakes a massive project: Digitizing 60,000 of Curtis's photos and making them freely accessible to the public. 

In a new 30-minute Cascade PBS documentary, we explore the Pacific Northwest from the 1890s to the 1940s through Curtis’s eyes.

"Photography is just a window to the past," said Jennifer Kilmer, director of the Washington State Historical Society. "I think the further we get from these moments in the past, the harder it is to envision what it was like. And when you have original photos, you have the ability to step into that world and to focus on the tiniest things."

Let us know what you think. Have you heard of Asahel Curtis before? Will you browse through the photo archive once it’s publicly available? 

https://crosscut.com/video/cascade-pbs-documentaries-asahel-curtis-collection/asahel-curtis-collection

Does anyone have any information/photos from this venue in the 70's? A friend of mine was in the house band. Already know of pnwbands.com Thank you!

(Adopted from an AskReddit thread.)

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