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Rites of Passage
A Memoir of the Sixties in Seattle
On a hot summer night in 1963, a teenager named Walt Crowley hopped off a bus in Seattle’s University District, and began his own personal journey through the 1960s. Four years later at age 19,...
ISBN: 9780295974934
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Hope on the Hill
The First Century of Seattle Children's Hospital
In the spring of 1898, a 5-year-old Seattle boy named Willis Clise suffered and eventually died of what was called “inflammatory rheumatism.” There was no treatment,and no doctor west of Philadelphia who specialized in childhood...
ISBN: 9780295989563
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The First Century of the Washington State Department of Transportation, 1905-2005
From wagon trails to interstate highways, this book retraces how the leaders and employees of the Washington State Department of Transportation and their predecessors helped to shape Washington’s transportation system during a century of technological...
ISBN: 9780295985619
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A History of Seattle City Light
Since before Seattle voters decided in 1902 to build their own lighting plant, City Light has been a source of fierce civic pride for its independence from "foreign" corporations, its impressive public works projects, and...
ISBN: 9780295985763
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