{"id":960,"date":"2020-08-21T12:56:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T20:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/?p=960"},"modified":"2022-03-03T13:55:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T21:55:31","slug":"around-the-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/?p=960","title":{"rendered":"Around the Globe"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>One landmark that appears often in our pictures is the Seattle P-I Globe. That’s no surprise, since it dwells between our window and the photogenic Olympic Peninsula.\u00a0 How the globe got there in the first place is another matter though.<\/p>\n

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is the successor to Seattle’s very first newspaper, the Seattle Gazette, founded in 1863.\u00a0 Eighty-five years later, the globe was created to adorn the paper’s then-new headquarters, at Sixth Avenue and Wall Street. The diameter of the globe is 30 feet, and then there’s that 18 foot eagle perched on top.\u00a0The slogan “It’s in the P-I,” in red neon, still sometimes revolves around its equator.<\/p>\n

Eventually, the P-I lost ground to its cross-park rival, the Seattle Times.\u00a0 Starting in 1983 the two papers were both printed by the Times under a joint operating agreement, and so the\u00a0 P-I had less need for floorspace.\u00a0 They moved down toward the waterfront, taking their globe with them, and that’s why it’s in our line of sight.\u00a0 Since 2009 the P-I is online only<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Here at our house we’ve been worried about losing our view of the globe.\u00a0 It’s not that the thing is going anywhere — the Museum of History and Industry, which now owns it, doesn’t have any place else to put it.\u00a0 But our neighborhood is strewn with one-, two- and three-story buildings that are ripe for re-development (we lost our partial view of Mt. Rainier to a big apartment building, for instance). One day a construction crane appeared near the globe, and soon a wooden structure began to rise.<\/p>\n

But we tracked the new building down, to Warren Avenue, across First from where I think the Cascadia Tavern used to be.\u00a0 It’s wedge-shaped and yellow, and full of holes on the side away from us.\u00a0 We were glad to find it topped out at a visually safe height.\u00a0 Its complexion is still subject to change, but I’m sure it will always be the Swiss Cheese Building to us.<\/p>\n

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Up close, the globe itself is more imposing:
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Here is the globe from the other side:
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