Don’t tell Kemper Freeman, but: “Believe it not, there were once plans afoot to replace the ferries with a series of bridges that would cross Puget Sound.”

Those plans were cooked up in 1965, and they looked like this:

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  • Washington State Archives

Which, of course, reminds me of this:

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  • John Malta

Eli Sanders was The Stranger's associate editor. His book, "While the City Slept," was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He once did this and once won...