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Hardcover Rising Tides and Tailwinds: The Story of the Port of Seattle, 1911-2011 Book
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ISBN: 0295991313

ISBN13: 9780295991313

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

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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...

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