Housebound Historian
Housebound Historian
Feliks Banel
Housebound Historian Episode 16: "Skid Road" by Murray Morgan
13 minutes Posted May 9, 2020 at 3:55 pm.
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For the housebound everywhere, I'll post a daily (or so) episode of me reading from Pacific Northwest history books that I like. In Episode 16, the sixteenth installment of "Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle" by Murray Morgan, published by Viking Press, New York, in 1951. We continue with the section about John Considine and live entertainment in Seattle circa 1900, and a violent confrontation and Second and Yesler.