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    Once Upon a Time in Seattle
    Once Upon a Time in Seattle
    Once Upon a Time in Seattle
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    Once Upon a Time in Seattle

    By Emmett Watson

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    Luckily for him, and for us, Emmett Watson’s beat as a columnist for The Seattle Times required him to stay in touch with his beloved native city. In his daily meanderings, usually accompanied by his miniature poodle, Tiger, Watson saw much that is invisible to the rest of us. Of course, he was around longer than most of us, too—over eight decades, five of them as a newspaperman whose happy fate it had been to assay the crooked timber of humanity and reassure us of its worth.

    As he looked at Seattle, Watson discerned, with a geologist’s eye, human fossils buried in layers of history here, there and everywhere.

    In this volume, a companion to his Digressions of a Native Son, published almost three decades ago, Watson brings to life some of the citizens Seattle should not forget, and, along the way, reminds us that a city is a human habitat whose history can properly be told only in the tale of its people.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEpicenter Press
    Release dateAug 1, 2018
    ISBN9781941890257
    Once Upon a Time in Seattle
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    Emmett Watson

    Emmett Watson was a fixture in Seattle journalism for more than half a century, first as a sports writer for the Seattle Star and then as a columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Seattle Times. Orphaned shortly after his birth in 1918, Watson was raised by John and Elizabeth Watson, of West Seattle. He initially pursued a career in baseball, but proved more successful describing games than playing them. He scored his first international scoop by revealing the suicide of author Ernest Hemingway in 1961, and later entertained generations with his pithy commentaries of Seattle's changing social landscape. A paladin with a pen, Watson stood for Lesser Seattle against Greater Seattle, and delighted in puncturing the pomposities of local Babbits and self-appointed civic Boosters. He died of post-surgical complications on May 11, 2001.

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      Once Upon a Time in Seattle - Emmett Watson

      1 - The Baby Lieutenant

      Nick Foster, an angular young man, was a radio operator on the Jefferson, a tidy, somewhat ornate wooden ship that made tourist runs between Seattle and Skagway. There were six or seven radio operators hanging around Seattle’s waterfront, Nick being one of them. Nick was now out of work because it was late summer, 1924, and there would be no more runs to Alaska. Nick always tried to find a ship that had a good cook, so he would especially miss the Jefferson because it had comfortable quarters and the food was great.

      As a radio operator Nick made $70 a month. When he departed the Jefferson, he went uptown and rented a small sleeping room with a hot plate in it, and he made some phone calls, letting it be known that he was in the market for another ship. Early in September Nick got a call from Mr. 0. R. Redfern and this alarmed him, because 0. R. Redfern was supervisor of Puget Sound radio for the Federal Communications Commission, and if he found any radio infractions he could put you on the beach for good.

      There is a job available right now, Mr. O. R. Redfern said, "but I want to tell you something about this job. You can be the engineer for a radio station. I can’t tell you much more about it, except that the station broadcasts out of a home in the Mount Baker district.

      "This radio station is run by some people who are thought to be rumrunners. So, I want you to be careful. You should keep your radio license available at all times. If anything happens, it can identify what you are hired to do. Don’t let yourself get caught on any kind of infraction. This could be a touchy job, but it may be all right. Why don’t you go look at

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