Ready for some more Green Lake history? I’ve expanded my search beyond the Green Lake’s Library’s archives and have started poking around in some online databases. Check this out: Bellingham Herald, September 12, 1922, page 8 SEEK SEATTLE GIRL May Have Jumped in Lake and May Have Eloped With Marine SEATTLE, Sept. 12 — Police are scouring the city for a trace of pretty 17-year-old Violet Oaks, who disappeared from home after leaving a note for her mother that she was going to drown herself in Green Lake. The situation was further complicated yesterday afternoon when Sergeant W. S. White…
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The Green Lake Archives: The Patterson Tract
And now, another installment from the Green Lake Archives! Our last blast from the past came via a 1903 missive authored by “Green Lake Kicker.” In the same edition of The Interlaken, adjacent to the Kicker’s dog-hating rant, we find this interesting letter, showing community-support for the as-yet-built Green Lake playground, community center, bathhouse and swimming beaches. Reading this makes one realize how much we take for granted in the neighborhood today. The Interlaken, February 13, 1903, p.3 Gentlemen: I wish to enlist your services in securing the greatest good from the “Patterson Tract.” [ed. note: as far as I…
The Green Lake Archives: When Does a Dog Become a Public Nuisance?
Wow. Check out this doozy that I came across in the Green Lake Archives. Quite crotchety, that “Green Lake Kicker.” What do you think? Is Kicker’s concluding paragraph actually suggesting poisoning the owners of “tramp dogs”? Or am I just giving him too much creep cred? The Interlaken, February 13, 1903, p.3 A SUBURBAN QUESTION When Does a Dog Become a Public Nuisance? That is a pertinent question in Green Lake just now. It’s also the same old question that has so many times been settled to the satisfaction of the dog-poisoner, but never acceptably to the public, and especially…
Real estate agent, circa 1902, sings Green Lake’s praises
It’s been a couple of weeks since we last poked our noses into the Green Lake Archives. We recently took another peek and found this gem. Judging from the content of adjacent articles, the following appears to have been last published in 1902, although the exact date and the name of the original publication are unknown. Green Lake = = An Ideal Home Place By A. H. Rogers It is the purpose of this article to set forth with as much brevity and conciseness as is possible, a few reasons which will serve to explain the fact that the writer…
