Features Feb 12, 2020 at 4:00 am

A brief history of Seattle's traditionally black and Asian neighborhoods.

The Dearborn Street Bridge (seen here in 1917) was renamed Jose Rizal Bridge in the 1970s, after the 19th-century Filipino revolutionary. City of Seattle, Municipal Archives

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1

I love the retelling of physical memories of Seattle - anyone who has been here for years, and repeatedly walked the streets of a neighborhood has memories of places and people.

2

"Not unmixed"?? You mean.....mixed???

3

Charles, I don't read everything you have ever written but, this is the best thing I have ever read, that you have ever written.

4

What a wonderful morning read that was.

5

"But Seattle's white history is not all bad."

Thank you Charles, I was feeling so guilty this morning about my unbearable whiteness.

6

Nice!

7

If you do another installment be sure to profile the history of Douglass/Truth branch library.

8

Well done

9

This warrants a series.

10

The history of the Judkins Park neighborhood is fascinating. Back in the 80’s I had a beau who lived there. It was a rough neighborhood, but the people were nice. When the Red Apple opened, that was a very big deal. That whole intersection was previously vacant land.

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This is a great piece, Charles. And I learned some history.

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I grew up in 2 Seattles - and this was one of them. My school’s neighborhood, and so some of my school-friends’ neighborhood. The other Seattle I spent more time in. The whiter, northern part. I was never curious nor smart enough to dig into why there was a difference.

I live in and love South Seattle now. This history is like the version of my past where I understood more, saw things more clearly. It’s a funny feeling to mix reminiscences with hindsight.

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Gah Charles, I wish you write like this more. That part about the man and his 2 bitey dogs, and how there was to be no satisfaction with the inferno aftermath got me. And yeah, I hated that dude too.

A small note: the Panama Hotel and the belongings of the internees mentioned here are featured in the novel “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet”. It’s a worthy read for those interested in more of Seattle history.

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The headline writer did this piece a disservice by stating the article that follows would be a tour of South Seattle, which many understand as the part of the city southof the I-90 interchamge.

I suppose "black and asian Seattle" could have been dismissef as stereotypical, but really?

16

Funny....in 1997 I lived in Brooklyn near Flatbush, also a site of Magic Johnson's civic good deeds. That man got around!!


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