First, you might not have known, but soccer has a deep and rich history in Cascadia (from a submission I put into GoalWa): This isn’t a thorough history of high level Puget Sound area soccer, but rather a quick overview of what I could find in a few places about the earliest soccer in the…
Month: July 2014
The long history of hating and loving Boeing
When we jump on the bandwagon around here, we sure do jump on hard: Senator Bone attacked Boeing in February and March of 1934. He referred repeatedly on February 20 to an unnamed “air- plane factory” that had “made 90 percent profit out of the Govt.” and proclaimed that he did not want his country…
Nothing about LakeFair. You should all be proud (Olyblogosphere for July 20, 2014)
1. It isn’t just LakeFair that makes us tick. There were some great things at Pride too. 2. Ken obviously let’s people write without using their real names. This particular post seems to toe the line of acting like a kid in civil discourse. And, reminds us that the entire isthmus planning group is a…
Do we have to wait until Dan Evans dies before someone writes a biography?
Scoop Jackson, Warren Magnuson, and Tom McCall all have biographies. The Secretary of State’s Legacy Project has released biographies of Slade Gorton, Booth Gardner and John Spellman. Cecil Andrus has a really good biography. “Fire at Eden’s Gate” about McCall is better. But, the Andrus one is really good. Scoop and Maggy cast a longer…
Where would’ve been a better place to put Evergreen?
@jeff_james is always on my back about Olympia. It isn’t a college town, he says. It doesn’t have the normal trappings of the Midwest college towns that he was used to. Somehow it always comes down to college bars, but I think that’s just what I remember. Ken also points this out, that the relationship…
Pretty, cheaper and better for fans. Great new indoor soccer league, I wish it was a futsal leauge
I’m glad the new Western Indoor Soccer League is coming online. The old national minor league indoor teams around here had been associated with just seemed so disconnected. And, there was a bit of drama in there that I didn’t like. And, most importantly, I think local leagues should be local. Sure, organized with some…
Freedom and Walla Walla
On Independence Day in 1861, the Steilacoom paper mentioned that the soon to be ex-acting governor of the territory would make his own person independence in Walla Walla. Just a couple of months after shots were fired to open the Civil War on the opposite coast, in his capacity as acting governor, Henry McGill had…