Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle by Murray Cromwell Morgan, Murry Morgan

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August 31, 2001: Having lived in Seattle all my life since the year of my birth in 1945 except for two years in Alaska, this book opened up pictures in my mind of all that was familiar. The vivid portrayal of people and places both good and evil reminded me of the conversatons I had as a young girl with my grandfather who was an engineer on both the Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railroads after World War I until he retired in 1961. The only problem I had with this book was the focus on politics in the last half of the book. Granted, there was alot of political upheaval in the early 1900's when Seattle was feeling it's oats after the gold rush. But those were also the years when art and music and books were making a tremendous impact on the social life of the Seattlites. Plus, the architecture of the city was changing, and better planning of the city streets was taking place to make Seattle what it is today. I have read this book twice now, once in 1960 when I was 15 years old, and again this year of 2001 at the age of 56. I reccomend this book to everyone interested in early Seattle.