Sonia Richter has lived near 23rd and Union for 25 years. Even after all that time she is not sure what to think of the corner.
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Sonia Richter has lived near 23rd and Union for 25 years. Even after all that time she is not sure what to think of the corner.
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Ben calls to say that he isn’t really sure whose corner this is. He wishes 23rd and Union could be a more community friendly place.
#028 Ben: Whose Corner? (The Corner)
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In the third and final in-depth feature about 23rd and Union, community members talk about gentrification, and how it’s changing the community in Seattle’s Central District. Learn more: http://23rdandunion.org
#026 Part Three: The Change Came (The Corner: 23rd and Union)
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Tanya Gail Beverly recalls how she would go to the Jack in the Box on 23rd and Union to find out where the house parties were.
#027 Tanya Gail Beverly: The One Place (The Corner)
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Robin lived on 24th and Union in the 1950’s. She remembers watching the Mardi Gras Parade. She says that because of her memories, it will always be her corner.
#024 Robin: My Corner (The Corner)
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In the first of three in-depth features about 23rd and Union, we reveal life in the Central District in the decades before and after World War II. It became the center of Seattle’s growing African–American community and the corner, 23rd and Union, was the neighborhood’s hub.
Part One: The Hub (The Corner: 23rd and Union)
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Adriana calls and tells us about her experience with crows on 23rd and Union.
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Stefan Gruber is a former student, and now teacher at Nova High School. He calls in to tell us about the “strange magical effect” he feels at the corner of 23rd and Union.
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