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    • A Wunda-ful adventure: In local TV’s earliest years, Ruth Prins touched the youngest of hearts
      • Ruth Prins: cover story
      • Ruth Prins: special thanks
      • Ruth Prins: the ‘now’ videos
      • Ruth Prins: the artifacts
      • Ruth Prins: the backstory
      • Ruth Prins: the drawings
      • Ruth Prins: the endorsements
      • Ruth Prins: the extra photos
      • Ruth Prins: the kinescopes
      • Ruth Prins: the letters
      • Ruth Prins: the Music Man’s songs
      • Ruth Prins: the news clips
      • Ruth Prins: the promotion
      • Ruth Prins: the schedule
      • Ruth Prins: the writings
    • Around the world with ‘Now & Then’: Vacations we can take vicariously
      • Vicarious vacations 01: Mount Rushmore, 1994
      • Vicarious vacations 02: New York harbor, 1963
      • Vicarious vacations 03: Copenhagen, 1965
      • Vicarious vacations 04: Iguazú Falls, Argentina, 2011
      • Vicarious vacations 05: The JFK Eternal Flame at Arlington Cemetery, 1966
      • Vicarious vacations 06: Expo ’74, Spokane, 1974
      • Vicarious vacations 07: Chicago lakeshore, 1988
      • Vicarious vacations 08: Australian outback, 1986
      • Vicarious vacations 09: Lake Michigan chalet, 1966
      • Vicarious vacations 10: Banff, Alberta, 1979
      • Vicarious vacations 11: Pinoy Hill, Seward Park, 1954
      • Vicarious vacations 12: Paris, 1967
      • Vicarious vacations: the Backstory
    • Booking Jean and Clay for a Seattle Now & Then presentation
    • DOORS TAKE A LOOK! PRICES TO PLEASE! Welcome to Lake Union St. Vinnie’s
    • Eulogy for Virginia Lee Slate Eals
    • Mount St. Helens erupts: The 40th anniversary!
      • St. Helens Backstory: Stories unearth wonder and dread of a lifetime
      • St. Helens Cover Story: Love, Loss and a Lodge
      • St. Helens Sidebar: The Grateful Dead’s spooky ‘Fire on the Mountain’
      • St. Helens: Forty stories for the 40th anniversary
        • Bonus: Ash launches a once-in-a-lifetime trip
        • Story #10: Like black-and-white TV
        • Story #11: Outrunning St. Helens
        • Story #12: Paying attention after a ho-hum attitude
        • Story #13: ‘Don’t touch the car’
        • Story #14: Without warning, visibility straight to zero
        • Story #15: A dark cloud line with cotton ball-like swirls
        • Story #16: Difficult to be seen in the volcanic debris
        • Story #17: Perhaps the last summit of St. Helens
        • Story #18: Like a cannon – in Port Angeles
        • Story #19: We thought we were dead
        • Story #20: Sheets of mud on the windshield
        • Story #21: Ash clothes turn into costume contest
        • Story #22: An eerie and quiet summer
        • Story #23: Plumes of ash come off with the spray
        • Story #24: Unique sounds from 140 miles away
        • Story #25: Collapsed roof due to ash weight
        • Story #26: Winter wonderland, but hot
        • Story #27: A jar of ash in the mail
        • Story #28: Glad we didn’t go back to Juniper Ridge
        • Story #29: Not among the missing
        • Story #2: Like a lot of hairspray on everyone’s head
        • Story #30: Far apart from each other, a family reacts
        • Story #31: A sense of awe and respect
        • Story #32: Mud balls falling from the sky
        • Story #33: Time in the crater
        • Story #34: The enormity of destruction, from the air
        • Story #35: The ash piling up like snow
        • Story #36: Graceful, inspiring, enigmatic, self-destructive
        • Story #37: The greatest story of our careers
        • Story #38: Cleaning after steam-cleaning
        • Story #39: You could feel the hair on your arms
        • Story #3: Insane night in an Ellensburg dorm
        • Story #40: Like a cannon – in Bellingham
        • Story #4: Thicker and thicker, darker and darker
        • Story #5: Like a still picture, too large
        • Story #6: Remember reading about Pompeii?
        • Story #7: Birds flying, some dying
        • Story #8: ‘Clean Up the Great Northwest’
        • Story #9: Good timing that day
        • Story #1: A stolen, handmade grandfather’s clock
    • OUR FIRST SPORTS REPORT
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    • Restoration in the heart of Paris: the Hôtel de Sully
    • Seattle Now & Then: The architecture of love
      • The architecture of love: Ilumin-Roth
      • The architecture of love: Oseguera-Willendorf
      • The architecture of love: The backstory
      • The architecture of love: The Briscoes
      • The architecture of love: The Sedliks
    • Seattle Now & Then: KRAB – Listener-supported Free-form Radio
    • Seattle Now & Then: MOHAI's Seattle Fire Mural
    • Seattle Now & Then: Seattle Center Corral
    • Seattle Now & Then: Second Hill from First Hill
    • Seattle Now & Then: The Dominion Monarch
    • Seattle Now & Then: The Phinney Ridge Ferris Wheel
    • Seattle Now & Then: The Wilhelmina/Winona Apartments
    • Seattle Now & Then: Piner's Point and Plummer's Bay
    • Secret Paris: Berangere's hidden rooftops
    • Seattle Now & Then: Romans' St. James from the Great Northern Tower
    • West Seattle Sportsmen's Big Game Dinner
    • Seattle Now & Then: Wallingford Fisticuffs
    • Seattle Now & Then: Madrona Park – End of the Line
    • Seattle Now & Then: Lowman and Hanford
    • Seattle Now & Then: The Floating Bridge Inauguration
    • Green Lake's Trattoria Cioppino: Our First Restaurant Review
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  • Seattle Now & Then: The Historic Hundred
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    • THE MEDIA!
  • Seattle Now & Then
    • BERNER'S BOOMTOWN
    • Seattle 1900-1920: From Boomtown, Urban Turbulence to Restoration
    • The Seattle Waterfront: An Illustrated History
      • Seattle Waterfront History, Chapter 1
      • Seattle Waterfront History, Chapter 2
      • Seattle Waterfront History, Chapter 3
      • Seattle Waterfront History, Chapter 4
      • Seattle Waterfront History, Chapter 5
      • Seattle Waterfront History, Chapter 6
    • SEATTLE SNOWS HISTORY
      • SEATTLE SNOWS, Part 2
      • SEATTLE SNOWS, Part 3
      • SEATTLE SNOWS, Part 4
      • SEATTLE SNOWS, Part 5
      • SEATTLE SNOWS, Part 6
      • SEATTLE SNOWS, Part 7
      • SEATTLE SNOWS, Part 8
      • SEATTLE SNOWS, Part 9
      • SEATTLE SNOWS, Part 10
      • SEATTLE SNOWS, Part 11
      • SEATTLE SNOW Coda
      • BIG SNOWS – of 1916 & 1968 – A Blogaddendum
    • 1982-08-08 The Montlake Isthmus Before the Ship Canal
    • 1984-03-11 Broadening Broadway
    • 1993-01-31 The Guild 45 Theater – Wallingford Art House
    • Seattle Chronicle DVD
    • 1993-04-23 The King Street Gas Yard
    • 1994-06-05 Seattle's Great Northern Depot
    • 2002-09-01 High on Labor
    • 2005-01-23 Main Street Redux
    • 2006-08-13 The Fremont Bridge
    • 2007-01-14 Holy Names on Capitol Hill
    • 2007-12-30 St. Vinnie's at Lake Union
    • 2008-02-24 The West Point Lighthouse
    • 2008-07-13 Snoqualmie Falls
    • 2008-08-17 The Coliseum Theatre reborn
    • 2008-09-14 Seattle's Front Street
    • 2008-09-21 Warshall's on 2nd Ave
    • 2008-09-28 Freeway Park Dances
    • 2008-10-05 First Hill Landmarks
    • 2008-10-12 The Cascade Neighborhood Skyline
    • 2008-10-19 "Lake Union John"
    • 2008-10-26 The Potlatch Parade on First Avenue
    • 2008-11-02 Moore Theatre
    • 2008-11-09 Denny Hill Hotel
    • 2008-11-16 A Pioneer Square Victorian
    • 2008-11-23 Aloha trolley
    • 2008-11-30 A View from Central School tower
    • 2008-12-07 Seattle's Hippodrome
    • 2008-12-14 Seattle's Olympic Block
    • 2008-12-21 Lake Union from Ford plant
    • 2008-12-28 Aurora Overpass
    • 2009-01-04 The Tin Man at Yesler
    • 2009-01-11 Lake Sammamish: Monohon with Three Os
    • 2009-01-18 "I am blind"
    • 2009-01-25 Seattle's Arctic Club
    • 2009-02-01 Green Lake Skaters
    • 2009-02-08 'Foodland'
    • 2009-02-15 Militia at Main Street
    • 2009-02-22 Occidental's Tourist Hotel
    • 2009-03-01 Capitol Hill from the Water Tower
    • 2009-03-08 Paramount Theatre Opening Night
    • 2009-03-22 Broadening Broadway
    • 2009-03-29 Major Millis' Capitol Hill Treasures
    • 2009-04-05 Auburn Sweet Auburn
    • 2009-04-12 Great Northern & Mea Culpa
    • 2009-04-25 Forty-five Years of Freeway
    • 2009-05-03 Look Down Into Belltown
    • 2009-05-10 The Musical Baptists of Fremont
    • 2009-05-24 Entering the A-Y-P
    • 2009-05-31 The Perry Apartments
    • 2009-06-07 The S.S. Suveric visits Pier 56
    • 2009-06-14 Childhaven
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Town of Yesler, looking south to Union Bay

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