For the better part of the 20th Century the Argus was Seattle’s best read weekly journal of news and opinion. It expired under the pressure of the several weekly tabloids – most notably The Weekly – the proliferated later in the century. This fantasy of a West SEattle “high bridge” – and airplanes and luxury steamers too – appeared in an early issue of the Argus from the 1890s when the difficulties of reaching West Seattle by any means other than water became a common concern and frequent complaint.