Posted Wed, Apr 25, 11:07 a.m.

Bravo!

Posted Fri, Apr 20, 11:38 p.m.

Wow Knute... what do you make of it when the usual peanut gallery goes quiet?

Posted Thu, Mar 29, 2:01 p.m.

What I like best is that I can tune in to the conversation AND smoke and drink coffee at the same time. I've spent the greater part of my life in conversation, cigarettes and coffee. Now Crosscut is one of the last remaining places I can still do that. And ...

Posted Fri, Dec 2, 12:43 a.m.

I've recently seen advent calendars in Rite Aid and Bartell's. I agree with Gary P. After reaching my 70's, I not only tossed my high heels and 'dress-up' stuff, but I've chosen to decorate for Xmas every other year or so. It's a gift to myself to not have to ...

Posted Tue, Nov 29, 8:19 p.m.

All I can say is, from the year I spent working there, I can't think of another building in Seattle that I would feel safer in... come earthquake, fire, flood, tunnel or tsunami. I tend to agree with Artifacts. The only time in my life that I saw a ten ...

Posted Fri, Nov 18, 1:30 a.m.

Before you buy, ask how much it will cost to replace the battery pack when the time comes.

Posted Wed, Nov 9, 1:58 a.m.

Oh Mossback, you really pushed my nostalgia button with this piece! I know it's not p.c., but the poster struck me as hilarious in light of today's mores and morals. The rumor I vaguely remember from high school was that if you collected something like 500 3-dot labels, you could ...

Posted Fri, Oct 28, 8:43 p.m.

re: Bluelight - Women definitely knew their place back then. They were not allowed to enter through the front door of the Rainier Club... had to use the "women's side door, with their escort."

Posted Wed, Oct 19, 2:23 a.m.

I'm guessing staybailey might mean banking regulation as in once again separating investment banking from commercial banking.

Posted Thu, Oct 13, 2:43 a.m.

jmrolls - I tend to be in tune with your list of grievances. Many years ago when Japan had an economic melt-down, I read somewhere that as a 'rule of thumb' in Japan at that time (don't know about now), no company executive earned more than 5 to 7 times ...

Posted Mon, Oct 10, 5:19 p.m.

orino - "Council districts" sound a bit sterile and commie-like. Neighborhoods, especially if you stay in one long enough, engender loyalty and familiarity. They are warm and fuzzy.

Posted Mon, Sep 19, 3:07 p.m.

I've realized this shift more than once. I used to take it for granted during the course of a conversation, that I could reference a TV show that 'everyone' watched the night before, or a piece in newspaper that 'everyone' had read. No longer.

Posted Tue, Sep 6, 9:35 p.m.

"Don Haggen and his younger brother Rick were personally more like the quiet but influential Nordstroms..." and many other Northwest movers and shakers in those days. Somewhere along the line personalities became more like the young Cassius Clay.

Posted Fri, Aug 19, 4:29 p.m.

The reunions of our class of '53 in Seattle are very much like TVD's description. Yes, "people of color" lived in our neighborhood. Yes, we had a "gay" guy in school (and more than one as we learned over the ensuing years) but we didn't have that term. He was ...

Posted Thu, Jul 28, 12:38 a.m.

This piece explains a lot to me about my older relatives and their attitudes that were passed down. Thank you.

Posted Mon, Jul 25, 7:31 p.m.

Sorry, I prefer Graves and Tobey over Warhol, and "The Northwest School" of architecture over anything out of the East Coast. Just call me provincial I guess.

Posted Thu, Jul 21, 3:30 p.m.

I'm in my 70's and had been, fortunately, something of a virgin regarding medical care, when I had an accident at an "event" three years ago. I was covered by both Medicare and special "event insurance" provided by a private insurer. The medical treatment (involving surgery and rehab) lasted about ...

Posted Wed, Jul 20, 2:26 p.m.

For no particular reason I was staring at that WSDOT sketch of the Seattle waterfront that accompanies this piece and I tried to imagine what I would think of it if I had just come for a visit from somewhere else. I thought it looked boring. Even if I had ...

Posted Tue, Jul 12, 7:37 p.m.

Wow Kieth, you made me stop and think. I'm female and from w-a-a-y old school. I've never been one to shop as a form of entertainment, but I did like to "window shop" while passing by a store. For one thing, it told you something about the character of the ...

Posted Fri, Jul 8, 12:44 p.m.

LOVE his attitude!

Posted Fri, Jun 24, 2:31 p.m.

Thanks, Andy, for bringing this story to light once again. It's been a long time since I first learned about it. I'll bet a lot of today's East-siders will be surprised.

Posted Wed, Jun 22, 5:35 p.m.

Whoa!...nostalgia time again. I remember watching the original Omnibus show. Thanks very much for the links. And hooray for Microsoft...sounds like a promising direction.

Posted Mon, May 9, 4:19 p.m.

You've all made me shed a nostalgic tear. Knute's phrase, "...embodied a kind of Northwest loser sensibility" caught my attention. As I remember it, we nurtured that sensibility. WE knew we weren't losers, in fact we were the luckiest people in the world to be living here. We were smart ...

Posted Wed, Nov 24, 4:05 p.m.

I once took an art class taught by him. He told us that he figured out early on that his paintings without faces sold quickest. He said he thought it was because people's imaginations could project the face they wanted to onto the painting. He also seemed rather proud of ...

Posted Sat, Sep 18, 12:29 a.m.

Hey thanks dbreneman (I drive a stick Miata.) I remember, back in the late '50's,taking a train with a bunch of friends... it must have been like a charter train, perhaps by way of the Mountaineers...to Leavenworth for a ski-jumping championship event. We left the station in Seattle at 5:30 ...

Posted Mon, Sep 13, 3:40 p.m.

No comment about material supply lists? A ream of paper, 5 boxes of tissue (only 3 boxes at another school), 200 pencils (for a 180 day school year.)Yessir, it sounds like everyone in Seattle Public Schools is working hard to "put kids first".