Rising Tides and Tailwinds: The Story of the Port of Seattle, 1911-2011

by Kit Oldham, HistoryLink Staff, Peter Blecha

Book Overview

A century ago Seattle was held hostage by its own waterfront. Competing railroad companies built a chaotic sprawl of railroad lines, docks, and warehouses along the shoreline of the great natural harbor of Elliott Bay, creating conditions so bad that visionary civic planner Virgil Bogue called the harbor side "a blot on the city and a menace to the lives of its people." After many years of unproductive bickering and lawsuits, the Port District Act...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295991313
• ISBN13: 9780295991313
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 10.1" x 10.3"