Then and Nows

Patriots are Legion

Author-editor Hal Will photographed this parade scene looking south on Third Avenue from Union Street sometime between the spring of 1947 and mid-1949...

The Last to Go

Until about 1916 when it was burned, Salmon Bay Charlie's home was a landmark fixture on the Magnolia side of what later was named Shilshole Bay...

Growing Up in Magnolia

"If you or I and our childhood chums had done something this bad when we were kids (and let's for a while pretend that we didn't), we would have been taken behind the wood shed (if we had a wood shed) and then sent to our room (if we had one)..."

Home for the Hospital

Here we look down on what was in its earliest life an experiment in local charity that involved the Elks Lodge, the Junior League and the Children's Orthopedic Hospital. The Elks started raising money in the upbeat 1920s with a program they called nothing less than Building Utopia for Crippled Kids, hence "BUCKS."