A milestone worthy of celebrating recently came and went and hardly anyone noticed.
Because of our preoccupation with finding vaccination sites and monitoring the gradual evaporation of the COVID-19 cloud, you likely missed it. I certainly did. Starbucks just celebrated its 50th birthday.
I was also totally unaware when the very first Starbucks opened its doors in the historic Pike Place Market on the Seattle waterfront. On the last day of March in 1971, I had just begun classes in the final quarter of my freshman year in college. As I prepared to write a term paper on the letters of St. Paul, I was clueless as to what was taking place not more than five miles from my dorm room on Queen Anne Hill.
Rent prices continue to rise in Seattle after dropping throughout coronavirus pandemic: report
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A real estate sign in Seattle.Claire Maulding, Special to the Seattle P-I
After dropping for months during the coronavirus pandemic, rent prices in Seattle are on the rise once again.
In April, rent prices in Seattle went up by about 3.5% month over month, according to the latest report from ApartmentList. Seattle had the fifth highest increase in rent prices in April compared to the previous month, among the 100 largest cities in the country.
Compared to the same time last year, rent prices in the city are still down nearly 15%. But recent months have indicated they could continue rising in the coming months.
Seattle sees monthly increase in housing inventory; prices continue to rise: report seattlepi.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from seattlepi.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Olav Ulland, Gustav Raaum, Alf Engen, and Kjell Stordalen perform a four-person simultaneous ski jump at Sun Valley, Idaho, in December 1948. Credit: Courtesy of National Nordic Museum
Pacific NW was once a ski jumping hotbed, as told in new book and museum exhibit By
Few among us have tried our luck at competitive ski jumping, and there is no shame in that considering these skiers can reach speeds around 60 mph before they take flight. But there s something riveting about the daring sport even for casual onlookers. The Pacific Northwest was once a hotbed for Nordic jumping as detailed in a new book and a parallel museum exhibit.
Courtesy of John W. Lundin / Seattle Times, 1916
Few among us have tried our luck at competitive ski jumping, and there is no shame in that considering these skiers can reach speeds around 60 mph before they take flight. But there s something riveting about the daring sport even for casual onlookers. The Pacific Northwest was once a hotbed for Nordic jumping as detailed in a new book and a parallel museum exhibit.
Author John Lundin of Seattle was researching an earlier book about the history of skiing on Snoqualmie Pass, when he discovered that ski jumping was actually a bigger deal than alpine skiing in the Pacific Northwest before World War II.