Life On the Run (1976)
“From our thirty-second-floor room I look past the Moore Theater and the Calhoun Hotel, both over 40 years old, past the Public Service Insurance Co. and a new 20-story condominium, out to Puget Sound where under brilliant sunshine a ferry crosses to West Seattle, and hundreds of sailboats move briskly over the whitecaps. In the distance Mount Rainier and other peaks in the Cascade range stand like guardians at the gates of this fresh, green city on the water. It is the kind of day that exhilara...tes by the sheer force of its beauty. I go downstairs to breakfast and then sit in the lobby reading the Seattle newspaper.
Local news fills our travel like patches in a quilt—the writing of a new state constitution in Texas, a public-housing scandal in Cleveland, a freeway siting in Atlanta, a skyrocketing crime rate in Detroit, an earthquake in Los Angeles. Today I read that the city of Seattle proposes to close the Pike Street Market and build new office buildings in its place. The historical society and environmentalists are opposing the move, but the state’s lawyers say they are fighting a lost cause.MoreLess
Local news fills our travel like patches in a quilt—the writing of a new state constitution in Texas, a public-housing scandal in Cleveland, a freeway siting in Atlanta, a skyrocketing crime rate in Detroit, an earthquake in Los Angeles. Today I read that the city of Seattle proposes to close the Pike Street Market and build new office buildings in its place. The historical society and environmentalists are opposing the move, but the state’s lawyers say they are fighting a lost cause.MoreLess
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