Benjamin Donguk Lukoff
@lukobe.bsky.social
Writer, editor, father, husband; author of the book Seattle Then and Now (https://www.google.com/books/edition/Seattle_Then_and_Now/6WXRDwAAQBAJ?hl=en) and the blog Writes of Way (https://writesofway.org/). בנימין 동욱 Луков 🗽 🌊 ✡️☯️
The former Cesar Chavez Park has a new name: Parque Libertad. www.writesofway.org/parque-liber...
Parque Libertad is new name for former Cesar Chavez Park
The park at 7th Avenue S and S Cloverdale Street in the South Park neighborhood, formerly named after Cesar Chavez, finally has a new name: Parque Libertad. According to The Seattle Times: One wonders…
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This West Seattle street was created in 1937 as part of Forest View Tracts, an addition to the City of Seattle. At the time, it truly was in the middle of the forest, and still today Fauntleroy Park lies to its north and east. www.writesofway.org/forest-court...
Forest Court SW
This West Seattle street was created in 1937 as part of Forest View Tracts, an addition to the City of Seattle. At the time, it truly was in the middle of the forest, and still today Fauntleroy Park…
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This West Seattle street was named for the nearby Brace Point. The "cuspate foreland" was itself named in 1857 by the U.S. Coast Survey, but unlike with Fauntleroy Cove, Mount Ellinor, Mount Constance, and The Brothers, we don't know why the name Brace was chosen. www.writesofway.org/sw-brace-poi...
SW Brace Point Drive
This West Seattle street was created in 1911 as part of the plat of Fauntleroy, an Addition to Seattle, and named for the nearby Brace Point. According to HistoryLink.org, Brace Point was itself named...
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This West Seattle street was created in 1936 as Ocean View Way. Even though the Pacific Ocean is 92 miles to the west, as the crow flies, I’m pretty sure the street and addition were named for Puget Sound—from the end of the street to the beach is about 500 feet. www.writesofway.org/sw-ocean-vie...
SW Ocean View Drive
This West Seattle street was created in 1936 as Ocean View Way, part of the plat of Ocean View Addition to the City of Seattle. Even though the Pacific Ocean is 92 miles to the west, as the crow flies...
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This West Seattle street was created in 1941 as part a plat filed by, among others, Marie A. (1914–1976) and Horace S. Kelsey (1903–1961), and named for the Kelseys. www.writesofway.org/kelsey-lane-...
Kelsey Lane SW
This West Seattle street was created in 1941 as part of Allan MacLean’s 1st Add’n to the City of Seattle, filed by Allan and Nellie MacLean; H.S. and Marie A. Kelsey; and, on behalf of Carroll Hillman...
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I had the good fortune to meet him back when I was the “Seattle History Examiner,” working on the U District Museum Without Walls, and writing my book. He encouraged my love of writing about history. I will forever be grateful. May his memory be for a blessing. www.writesofway.org/paul-dorpat-...
Paul Dorpat, 1938-2026
The dean of Seattle local historians, Paul Dorpat, has died. Below is the obituary on his own site, written by longtime collaborators Jean Sherrard and Clay Eals. I had the good fortune to make his…
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Cesar Chavez Park no longer has a name, though a new one is in the process of being chosen. FWIW, city policy prohibits naming parks after living people such as Dolores Huerta -- Chavez died four years before the park was given his name. www.writesofway.org/cesar-chavez...
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This Rainier Valley street, created in 1931, was named after Camano Island in Puget Sound. www.writesofway.org/s-camano-pla...
S Camano Place
This street, created in 1931, was almost certainly named for Camano Island (known as ʔəw̓alus in Lushootseed), which is located, as Wikipedia tells us, in Puget Sound “between Whidbey Island and the…
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"The SAVE America Act is voter disenfranchisement masquerading as election security. It compromises voter privacy and would not add any additional security to our elections -- while creating barriers for eligible voters." — Steve Hobbs, Washington Secretary of State
This West Seattle street (more of an alley, really), which was created in 1946, resurrects the name of an earlier neighborhood street named for real estate man Louis Ayers Parshall (1870–1950). www.writesofway.org/parshall-pla...
Parshall Place SW
This West Seattle street was created in 1946 by Ordinance 75595 and expanded nearly 40 years later by Ordinance 112188. However, it was named after an earlier Parshall Place, created in 1909 as part…
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This street was created in 1920 as part of the Homecroft plat, Seattle's contribution to the movement which “encouraged wageworkers to become competent backyard gardeners rather than yeoman farmers.” (It ended up becoming just another residential neighborhood.) www.writesofway.org/croft-place-...
Croft Place SW
This West Seattle street was created in 1920 as part of Homecroft, an Addition to the City of Seattle, filed by the Puget Mill Company, who once owned Washington Park (see Arboretum Drive E)…
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This short Montlake street was created in 1925 as part of the plat of Glenwilde, an Addition to the City of Seattle, filed by E.F. Barnum and his wife, Sarah Barnum, and named for that subdivision. www.writesofway.org/glenwilde-pl...
Glenwilde Place E
This short Montlake street, which runs just over 150 feet from E Roanoke Street between 24th and 25th Avenues E in the south to the alley to the north, was created in 1925 as part of the plat of…
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This street was created in 1955 as part of the plat of Lowrain Park, filed by Adlai Lorain Wood (1891–1981) and Jack Earl Wood (1919–1995), his son. My guess is they named the street after themselves, the subdivision being in the southeasternmost part of the city. www.writesofway.org/s-eastwood-d...
S Eastwood Drive
This street was created in 1955 as part of the plat of the Lowrain Park Addition, filed by A.L. Wood and J.E. Wood of Lowrain Park, Inc. Their full names would appear to be Adlai Lorain Wood (1891…
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This street was created in 1919 as part of the plat of the Loch-Gilvra Addition to the City of Seattle, filed by the executors of the estate of John J. McGilvra (1827–1903). He and his wife were the first settlers in what is now Madison Park, in the mid-1860s. www.writesofway.org/e-mcgilvra-s...
E McGilvra Street
This street was created in 1919 as part of the plat of the Loch-Gilvra Addition to the City of Seattle, filed by Oliver C. McGilvra (1867–1955) and Charles L. Denny (1861–1919) as executors of the…
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This Wallingford street was created in 1907 as part of Tronstad’s Addition, filed by Norwegian immigrants Nils and Bertha Tronstad and another couple. It appears to have been named after the Tronstads’ first child and only son, Menford Tronstad (1904–2001). www.writesofway.org/n-menford-pl...
N Menford Place
This street was created in 1907 as part of Tronstad’s Addition to the City of Seattle, filed by Norwegian immigrants Nils and Bertha Tronstad and another couple. It appears to have been named after…
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Thanks to Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota, the Insurrection Act of 1807 has been in the news lately. Today I learned that, of the 30 times the act has been invoked, two of them were in Seattle — 3 months apart — thanks to anti-Chinese rioting in 1885 and 1886. www.writesofway.org/insurrection...
The Insurrection Act has been invoked 30 times. Two of them were in Seattle
Thanks to “Operation Metro Surge” in Minnesota, the Insurrection Act of 1807 has been in the news lately. Today I learned that, of the 30 times the act has been invoked, two of them were in Seattle…
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Let’s be clear — if Trump doesn’t end up invading Greenland, or doesn’t end up doing any other of his seemingly unlimited batshit insane, illegal and corrupt crimes, it WON’T be “evidence that we were overreacting.” It will ONLY be BECAUSE WE DIDN’T UNDER-REACT.
Sorry, but it's always going to be Sea-Tac to me @portofseattle.bsky.social 😉https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1GXPJzcV9K/
Before the first 🇪🇸Barcelona Superblock... Before the first 🇬🇧London LTN... Before the 🇳🇱Groningen circulation plan... 🇺🇸Seattle built the Stevens Neighborhood Traffic Diversion Demonstration Project. LET'S REVIVE THIS IDEA FOR A 21ST CENTURY SEATTLE
Qagggy!@qagggy.bsky.social · last yr.CREATE CIRCULATION PLANS. These can cover a few blocks (Barcelona superblocks), a neighborhood (London LTNs), or an entire city center (Ghent, Brussels, Paris, Groningen).
S Raymond Street was named by and for Herbert R. (1862–1933) and Minnie M. Raymond (1874–1947). His obituary described Herbert as "formerly one of the Pacific Northwest’s prominent shoe merchants and leading civic spirits." www.writesofway.org/s-raymond-st... www.writesofway.org/s-raymond-pl...
S Raymond Street
This street was named in 1906 as Raymond Avenue, part of Replat Tracts 30 & 31 Sunnyside 5 Acre Tracts, by Herbert R. Raymond (1862–1933) of New Brunswick, Canada, and his wife, Minnie M.
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Noem is right. Domestic terrorism IS happening in Minneapolis. kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
Several school districts switch to remote learning amid ICE activity
Minneapolis Public Schools remains closed through the weekend out of an ‘abundance of caution.’
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On the one hand, not a fan of the home fireworks. On the other though, can’t really fault people for celebrating 2025 finally coming to an end.
New articles on E Olive Lane, E Olive Place, and E Olive Street, all named after Olive Julia Bell Stewart (1846–1921), who was 5 when the Denny Party landed at Alki Point in 1851. www.writesofway.org/e-olive-lane/ www.writesofway.org/e-olive-place/ www.writesofway.org/e-olive-stre...
E Olive Lane
This portion of E Olive Street was renamed E Olive Lane by Ordinance 100274 in 1971. It is unclear why. For some reason, as the quarter section map shows, the name change wasn’t extended into the…
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Triton Drive NW, a North Beach street with a view of Puget Sound, was likely named after Triton, son of Neptune, Roman god of the sea. NW Neptune Place is nearby. www.writesofway.org/triton-drive...
Triton Drive NW
This street was established in 1926 as part of North Beach, an Addition to the City of Seattle, which overlooks Puget Sound. Just as my assumption is NW Neptune Place was so named because Neptune is…
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This street was established in 1926 as part of North Beach, an Addition to the City of Seattle, and has excellent views of Puget Sound. I assume Neptune being the Roman god of the sea was the inspiration behind the name. www.writesofway.org/nw-neptune-p...
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I very strongly agree with this from @awongpublic.bsky.social. And I was happy with 3 of the 4 school board endorsements the Stranger made this year! But overall they’re doing more harm than good by making school board endorsements when they don’t regularly cover the district.
The Stranger Should Cover SPS More or Consider Not Endorsing in Seattle School Board Races
Over 20 years The Stranger’s endorsees have made up 34 of 36 School Board members even though The Stranger does not cover SPS consistently.
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