Rob Ketcherside

Not posting here since 2022. Scouting, Seattle history, LEGO fan. [email protected]

[Rob Ketcherside @ro_ket]

I've added 10 photos of George Nakashima as a Boy Scout to my article, courtesy of the Nakashima Foundation for Peace. https://t.co/8BxO7WCZqR

[Rob Ketcherside @ro_ket]

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.

https://t.co/8BxO7WCZqR

[Rob Ketcherside @ro_ket]

@lukobe The Sherwood history file has exactly what we've put together 50 years later. But no stronger statement of whether it was the place or the shells. https://t.co/0vPiUkb8cU

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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).

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@lukobe A quick look at local papers in the 1880s only shows references to Roanoke Ind and Roanoke Va. But, the 1910 Webster's still had the bartering shell meaning of roanoke.

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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.

https://t.co/iLSz0T5XHk

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@lukobe @WritesOfROW Yes there is a Williams Place Park! I didn’t realize that island has a name. It isn’t on the former street, but instead is the southern most projection of the weird block Williams Pl bisected.

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@bholden @geologywriter @MsKatieKurtz I remember that older moves were mentioned in the Board of Public Works files. They required street closures and other permits. @geologywriter did you tell me that? Maybe I saw it myself when reading the board minutes. Not sure if it was the same in the 60s.

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@smay2090 I'm pretty confused now by that 2002 ord 120754 map. The ordinance text says the vacation was granted in 1996. I should check news reports from 2002 to figure out what the goof up was.

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@smay2090 You're right, there is annotation on that ordinance image that it was "Asph[alt] parking". And here's imap's 1998 aerial showing a building already.

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Perhaps you noticed the line above? Roanoke St, and thereby Roanoke Park neighborhood of Seattle, originally used the archaic 1500s spelling "Roanoak". It originated in the Denny-Fuhrman Addition. TIL it is ~rawrenock, Algonquian word for a shell for trading.

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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.

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@WritesOfROW @ValarieBunn Wow! I am Seattle~~

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@MarianHolling @josie_huang Contact @SPLBuzz “Ask a Librarian” with your grandfather’s name. If this was 1935-1940, they can find his address and then find the name of his neighbors. DM or email me with the answer and I can try to find her friend.

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Here's another city directory with a spectacular error for this family.

Should be "Sakai Seichi (Chika)"

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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)