Puget Sound Commerce Center Inc history

Seattle Chamber of Commerce, Statistical and Descriptive Report of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce to the Governor of Washington Territory (Seattle: Hanford, 1884).

John F. Carrère, Spokane Falls, Washington Territory, and its Tributary Country, Comprising All of Eastern Washington and the Idaho Panhandle (Spokane: City Council and Board of Trade, 1889).

By the time the Great Northern arrived in Seattle in 1893, Hill controlled a large section of the waterfront, built largely upon reclaimed tidelands.

City workers completed the first Cedar River pipeline in 1901.

V. V. Tarbill noted that after the Second Avenue regrade in 1906, street front lots sold for $2,000 per front foot at the corner of Pike Street.

R. H. Thomson, Annual Report, City Engineer’s Office (1908): 18-19.

Official Daily Program of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, 9 July 1909, Pacific Northwest Collections, University of Washington Libraries.

He led the planting of 80,000 trees along Spokane streets, persuaded voters to approve a one-million dollar bond issue in 1910, and encouraged real estate developers such as Jay Graves to donate land to the city.

Seattle Civic Movement. “Closing Word,” from Virgil G. Bogue, Plan of Seattle: Report of the Municipal Plans Commission submitting Report of Virgil G. Bogue, Engineer (Seattle: Lowman and Hanford, 1911).

The “Bogue Plan,” was defeated in the 1912 election after voters balked at the enormous expense, but much of the Bogue’s recommendations, from a regional parks system to improved highways and roads, later adopted in subsequent urban designs.

Duwamish Valley. “Changing the Topography of the Duwamish Valley,” Duwamish Valley News, 27 November 1914, 1.

Directory (Seattle: L. C. Smith Building, 1920), Pacific Northwest Collections, University of Washington Libraries.

After real estate owners lobbied the city to complete the job, workers began the second Denny Hill Regrade in 1928, moving earth into Elliott Bay with steam shovels and webs of conveyor belts.

Uptown Seattle Association to W. D. Barkhuff, City Engineer, 6 August 1929 and W. D. Barkhuff to George Nelson and Co., 7 October 1929, Local Improvement District 4818.

1930], Charles Darwin Garfield Papers, Acc.

Seattle Strides Forward in Seven League Boots (Seattle: Chamber of Commerce, 1945), Charles Darwin Garfield Papers, Acc.

Lars Langloe, Report on the Development of Industrial Sites in the Duwamish-Green River Valley (Seattle: City Planning Commission, 1946), 1-5, 16-17.

Voters approved the second Metro plan in September 1958 by a wide margin—59% for to 41% against—with King County residents outside of Seattle ratifying the plan by nearly two-to-one.

Forward Thrust. “What a Contributor Should Know about Forward Thrust,” 23 May 1967, Forward Thrust Papers, Acc.

When the doors to Expo’74 opened in the summer of 1974, visitors were already predisposed to see Spokane’s fair as yet another celebration of how the Northwest led the nation in its efforts to protect the environment.

Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1982). Informal is the best adjective here, for this is not a scholarly book.

Portland: Planning, Politics, and Growth in a Twentieth-Century City (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983). Abbott’s detailed and readable account of Seattle and Spokane’s main rival for urban dominance in the northwest is the best history of the city to date.

Kruckenberg, Arthur R. The Natural History of Puget Sound Country (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991). Kruckenberg, professor emeritus of botany at Washington, has written the definitive natural history guide to the Puget Sound area.

Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (New York: Norton, 1992). Cronon’s masterful book, which won the 1992 Bancroft Prize, examines how Chicago captured and changed its hinterlands in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the Dakotas.

______________. Railroad Signatures Across the Northwest (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1993). A lavishly illustrated book about railroads and Northwest history that has abundant material on how the railroads sold the Northwest as nature’s treasure chest and tourist wonderland.

The Great Age of Salmon and the PAF: The Story of the Pacific American Fisheries Company (Seattle: John Sabella and Associates, 1994). One of the few historical videos of the once-great Puget Sound salmon fisheries.

______________. The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River (New York: Hill and Wang, 1995). In one of the first environmental histories of the Columbia River, White argues that labor and technology tie humans to the natural world.

Taylor, Joseph E. Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Salmon Crisis (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999). Taylor’s definitive and award-winning history of the salmon crisis focuses mostly on Oregon, but also includes useful information about Washington.

The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001). Rome’s award-winning book focuses largely on national and East Coast trends, but is useful for placing suburbs and environmental politics in a larger context.