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Canucks...
Feliks Banel

Release the Canucks: Remembering Vancouver鈥檚 Stanley Cup riot of June 2011

Ten years ago the Vancouver Canucks lost in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals. The riot that followed left injuries and damage in its wake.
4 years ago
Wilkes campsite...
Feliks Banel

All Over The Map: 鈥榃ilkes Campsite鈥 distant evidence of Northwest explorer

The Wilkes Expedition changed the Northwest in 1841, but the only place the explorers left evidence of their travels was miles away, on top of a volcano.
4 years ago
Meeker, Oxmobile...
Feliks Banel

All Over The Map: Help find the missing Oxmobile

The Oxmobile was a remarkable artifact of a remarkable Washingtonian, and it went to a museum created by Henry Ford in the 1930s. But now it's missing.
4 years ago
Northgate Elementary...
Feliks Banel

Northgate Elementary demolition poses questions of preservation versus equity

Neighbors and alumni are organizing to stop the demolition of Northgate Elementary, which they say will also eliminate a popular community playfield.
4 years ago
Aerial photo of Kellogg Island, circa 1937. (Matt McCauley)...
Feliks Banel

All Over The Map: Mystery of Kellogg Island solved by local historian

The namesake of Kellogg Island has long been a mystery, until recently, when a local historian finally uncovered the truth behind the island.
4 years ago
Skagit City...
Feliks Banel

All Over The Map: The phantom riverside community of Skagit City

Skagit City was described in 1906 as the 鈥渢he oldest settlement and business point on the Skagit River.鈥 Now, there's little left of the once-proud town.
4 years ago
Seattle Center, Worlds Fair...
Feliks Banel

Can World鈥檚 Fair 60th anniversary be a symbol of Seattle鈥檚 post-pandemic rebirth?

成人X站 Radio convened a group of surviving World鈥檚 Fair staffers to talk about what the "Diamond Anniversary" for the Century 21 fair might look like.
4 years ago
Puget Sound axe...
Feliks Banel

All Over The Map: The axe that almost made Puget Sound famous

In the 19th聽century, an essential piece of logging equipment was developed along the shores of 鈥 and named for 鈥 an iconic Northwest body of water.聽
4 years ago
The earliest known image of what's now Bellingham -- the community of Whatcom, as it appeared in 18...
Feliks Banel

Washington Territory鈥檚 race-based, discriminatory Chinese Police Tax

The expulsion聽of Chinese people is a dark chapter of Northwest history. But anti-Chinese discrimination in the region can be traced back even further.
4 years ago
Expo 86, Vancouver...
Feliks Banel

It鈥檚 been 35 years since Vancouver, BC threw its very own world鈥檚 fair 鈥 called Expo 鈥86

Like so many people living in the region back then, did you head north over the border to see Vancouver's Expo between May and October 1986?
4 years ago
Mountain Loop Highway...
Feliks Banel

All Over The Map: Mountain Loop Highway selected as ‘Treasured Landscape’

The Forest Service announced the launch of a multi-year initiative to make big improvements to destinations along the Mountain Loop Highway.
4 years ago
Centennial license plate...
Feliks Banel

The high school kid who designed Washington鈥檚 iconic license plate

What became of the high school senior whose now-iconic license plate design featuring a blue silhouette of Mount Rainier beat out nearly 1,400 hundred other artists?
4 years ago
Seattle waterfront, piers...
Feliks Banel

All Over The Map: When the numbers came up for the Seattle waterfront

In the middle of World War II 鈥 77 years ago this week 鈥 the Port of Seattle re-numbered all the wharves and piers on the city鈥檚 busy wartime waterfront.聽
4 years ago
Spokane flag...
Feliks Banel

Sunday is final day to vote for new Spokane city flag

As 成人X站 Radio reported聽last September, the people of Spokane are choosing a new flag to wave high over the capital city of the Inland Empire.
4 years ago
Koma Kulshan, Mount Baker...
Feliks Banel

If Mount Rainier鈥檚 name is changed, what about Mount Baker?

成人X站 7 TV reported that the Puyallup Tribe is launching a new effort to restore the Indigenous name 鈥淭acoma鈥 to Mount Rainier. But what about Mount Baker?
4 years ago
Port Townsend, Jefferson...
Feliks Banel

All Over The Map: How Jefferson, King and Kitsap counties were named

It鈥檚 time for the sixth installment of County Countdown, a 13-part series on the origins of county names. This episode features Jefferson, King and Kitsap.
4 years ago
Puget Sound...
Feliks Banel

174-year-old geoducks and other mysteries of Puget Sound history

A body of water that underpins thousands of years of history and culture in this area, Puget Sound is now the focus of a new history book.
4 years ago
Greater Idaho...
Feliks Banel

All Over The Map: Ready for a summer vacation on the Idaho Coast?

In a move echoing Washington Territory's separation from Oregon Territory in the 1850s 鈥 only, in reverse 鈥 a group wants to expand the border of Idaho.聽
4 years ago
Pouliot, airliner ditched...
Feliks Banel

Airliner left Tacoma and ditched in the ocean in October 1962

Within a year, two identical airliners took off from McChord Air Force Base near Tacoma for Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska. Neither reached its final destination.
4 years ago
seattle archives facility...
Feliks Banel

Feds reverse decision and end effort to sell Seattle National Archives

The federal government ended its attempt to sell the 10-acre parcel and complex that houses the National Archives branch in Seattle.
4 years ago
pandemic, beer cans...
Feliks Banel

With pandemic-themed cans, brewers tell history museums to ‘Hold my beer’

Museums have been saving artifacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. A Tacoma man has a collection that is a bit more colorful than PPE, and a lot more refreshing.
4 years ago
Macy's Bon March holiday star...
Feliks Banel

New owner confirms: Bon March茅 holiday star is saved for a rainy day

With downtown Seattle's Bon Marche building getting sold, what will happen to the iconic holiday star that adorns its exterior every year?
4 years ago
Diver and blogger Candace Landau shared this image of the wreckage of the KEHLOKEN, off the souther...
Feliks Banel

All Over The Map: Is sunken boat in Puget Sound just an old ferry or artifact of dark chapter of history?

An old ferry boat that was involved in a dark chapter of wartime transportation history nearly 80 years ago also took a few strange journeys of its own.
4 years ago
Washington State Patrol...
Feliks Banel

From sleeping in sidecars to ‘speed cops’: Washington State Patrol marks 100-year celebration

Washington State Patrol is marking its centennial in 2021, and like so many things lately, the commemoration has been scaled back due to the pandemic.
4 years ago