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EXCERPT:”Growing Up In Rat City & Beyond” Pt. 3

[ December 13, 2008; 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="192" caption="Alexander Sasonoff grew up in "Rat City" and lived to write about it."][/caption]

Recently we’ve been posting excerpts from longtime area resident, architect, artist and now author Alexander Sasonoff’s recently-published autobiography called “Growing Up in Rat City and Beyond.”

Mr. Sasonoff will be holding a book signing at the Elliott Bay Brewhouse & [...]

61 Years Ago:Fatal Plane Crash At Sea-Tac Airport

The opening of Sea-Tac’s third runway has inspired a lot of discussion, both good and bad, and our sister site The B-Town Blog is commemorating something that happened on the original runway 61 years ago today (Nov. 30, 1947) – a tragic airplane crash that killed nine and injured 17.
Read the full story here.

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A Few Minutes With Dr. Martin Luther King

“When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, militarism and economic exploitation are incapable of being conquered.”
– Dr. Martin Luther King,
from a speech delivered in 1967
by Mark Neuman
Contemplating the Giant Triplets
I am embarrassed to admit that, at age nine, I knew more about [...]

Dia de los Muertos Celebration This Weekend

[ November 1, 2008; 10:00 am to 6:00 pm. 10:00 am to 6:00 pm. ]

A special Dia de los Muertos, or “Day of the Dead” celebration will take place this weekend (Sat. and Sun. Nov. 1-2) from 10am to 6pm at the Burien Community Center, which is about three miles south of the Dub-C at 425 SW 144th Street (map below).

This is a first-time collaboration between Burien Parks, the [...]

EXCERPT: “Growing Up In Rat City And Beyond”

Alexander Sasonoff grew up in "Rat City" and lived to write about it.
by Scott Schaefer
Alexander Sasonoff is a longtime area resident whose acronym could easily be “AAA” - Architect, Artist and now…Author.
Just don’t call him if your car breaks down (although he could probably fix that too…).
Sasonoff, an accomplished local architect, grew up in [...]

White Center Swap Meet Starts At Skate Rink 10/4

Just spoke with Julie Hubert of the historic Southgate Skate Center in White Center, and she informs us that the venue will be having a resurrection of sorts, being renamed the “Southgate Event Center” and holding a weekly “White Center Swap Meet” every weekend starting Oct. 4th.
Here are the details of the weekly Swap Meet:

Every [...]