Pork Neckbones, Sauerkraut & Rutabagas: Memories of my Green Lake Girlhood, a new book of neighborhood history by Dorothea Nordstrand, will be made available at a book launch on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012, 2-3 p.m., at the History House of Greater Seattle (790 N 34 St). Nordstrand’s four children share the following on an event flier: This book of memoirs is the culmination of 25 years of story writing, begun when Dorothea was 70, and put together in humorous, heartwarming details from her vivid memory. Despite the many hardships that her family endured during her childhood, the love and respect, sense of adventure and heartfelt enjoyment…
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Recent stories about the history of Green Lake
‘Pork Neckbones, Sauerkraut & Rutabagas: Memories of my Green Lake Girlhood’ available soon
Historical:
1970s
Family movie set in Green Lake in the early ’70s
Many thanks to Tom Swafford for sharing the following video clip with us, a family movie from the early 1970s shot in the Green Lake neighborhood and at Green Lake Park. Tom, a violinist and composer, used thumb pianos and violin to create a soundtrack for the footage. NE 71st St, the Green Lake Community Center’s roundabout, and East Green Lake Beach can all be seen.
A look back at the Green Lake Bowl
This story comes to us via Kat Chow. Kat is a student in the University of Washington Department of Communication News Laboratory, an advanced reporting class in which students produce news stories and packages for local neighborhood and ethnic newspapers and online sites. The Green Lake Bowl, which was first opened in 1950 at the intersection of NE Ravenna Blvd & Woodlawn Ave NE, was a neighborhood hotspot until it struck out and closed down in 1982. The bowling alley’s actual structure was built way back in 1923 and was 9,070 square feet, according to tax records that Ed Carlos, who grew up…
Historical:
1970s
Memories of Green Lake Elementary School
Did you attend Green Lake Elementary School (2400 N 65th St)? We would love to compile your memories and snapshots of the school. To get things started, here is a remembrance from David Carlos, who has lived in Green Lake since 1968: My sister, brother and I are alumni of the ol’ Green Lake Elementary when it was a beautiful turn-of-the-century wooden building. Then, when the brick building opened in 1970, we were the first-year students there. My 4th grade class was HUGE. There were 7 guys named David in the class of about 60-70 students in the room we called Team C. The…
Historical:
1960s
Inside the fallout shelter under I-5
Green Lake has four fallout shelters, left over from Cold War days. The biggest of the four was built in 1962, under I-5: Trudy Weckworth reported on the shelter’s construction in the September 13, 1962 edition of North Central Outlook: 200-person fallout shelter to be ready by November 1 A large reinforced concrete fallout shelter is being completed under the Freeway, between NE 68th and NE 69th, at Weedin Place NE. Built at a cost of $67,300, the 60-foot circular structure has been planned to provide shelter for 200 persons for two weeks. It will provide kitchen and sleeping facilities, self-contained emergency…
