Not posting here since 2022. Scouting, Seattle history, LEGO fan. [email protected]
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I've added 10 photos of George Nakashima as a Boy Scout to my article, courtesy of the Nakashima Foundation for Peace. ba-kground.com/george-nakash…
Here's George Nakashima. 4 months of research and writing led to this.
Share it with someone who is interested in the history of Scouting, Japanese Americans, woodworking, Seattle, or backpacking.
ba-kground.com/george-nakash…
If you’re trying to find an old South Seattle street name, or another part of the city renamed in 1906 (Capitol Hill, Queen Anne, Magnolia, Leschi, Sodo, Beacon Hill, etc) you’re in luck.
ba-kground.com/renaming-seat…
I wish I remember Williams Court. It was created in 1906 to remove duplicate Thomas Streets at 15th on Capitol Hill in Seattle. Erased in 2002 for Safeway rebuild. The block straddles two unaligned additions and was quite strange prior to 1910s (red line).
Per ordinance 13271, this street by law was known as Williams' Court. I wonder if it was the only street name with an apostrophe in it? Named after Williams' Addition, which ended in the right half of the block.
I've met many a Mr. Lyon Nis during my travels in Japan.
Ancestry transcribers are really terrible at Japanese names. This should be Nishiyori.
(I was getting info up page, and noticed a Japanese family and knew I'd need to make a correction.)
1910 census, Seattle.
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That above family is riddled with errors and inconsistencies on every record I look at. I hope I'm helping a family historian as I fix them.
I can't remember ever seeing someone with their name backward in the directory.
This should be Yanagihara Kinnosuke (last first)
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Who was the first Eagle Scout in Seattle? I couldn't find the answer so I figured it out and wrote about it. ba-kground.com/first-eagle-s… cc @boyscouts @seattlebsa @NESABSA @HistoryLink @scouting
I'm working on a story about woodworker George Nakashima's time in @scouting in Seattle in the 1910+20s. Last week I used clues in an oral history interview to find this description of a hike he took in Sept 1920. 105 miles in less than six days.
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Thank you to the journalist who wrote George's name and further said "the route was the same covered by the Mountaineers on their annual outing" the prior month. More thanks to the @uwspeccoll and @MountaineersOrg for these trip photos. Now I need a map digitalcollections.lib.washi…
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Since the @MountaineersOrg are so great, their 1920 is hosted online and has fantastic descriptions, photos, and a detailed map of their trip. Now I can reconstruct more details of George's trip. mountaineers.org/about/histo…
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I filled in the 8 month gap before @HistoryLink 's (great!) profile of Scouting in Seattle. This article also includes a profile of C. A. Player, the young man who seems the spark for the first Boy Scout troops here. ba-kground.com/scouting-in-s…
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Here's that HistoryLink profile of @seattlebsa @boyscouts , which covers so much territory. historylink.org/File/20449
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This @uwspeccoll photo took my breath away when I saw it today. I know exactly when it was taken, where, and who is in the photograph. 🧵 "Mr. Katayama's family at Boy Scouts camp, probably between 1920 and 1940" digitalcollections.lib.washi…
Here's the family with Elmer in uniform, sitting on a log "at Hood Canal", presumably nearby Camp Parsons on the same trip. The beach doesn't look like Parsons to me, though. More like Brinnon, where the family transferred from car to launch. 5/ digitalcollections.lib.washi…
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