An illustrated journal of life in the Puget Sound region by Times artist Gabriel Campanario.
Sketched Sept. 16, 9:50 a.m. [Click sketch to view larger] To wrap up my week of curb cuisine sampling (see earlier posts here and here), a breakfast burrito at “el camión” seemed fitting, so Thursday morning I headed to its original location by the Bitter Lake Home Depot on Aurora Avenue North….
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April, 27, 8:04 a.m. [Click on sketch to view larger] You may remember Richard Dyksterhuis. I sketched the retired school principal last year during a clean-up work party along Aurora Avenue. Dyksterhuis, 83, has been gathering community support and contacting city officials numerous times to call attention to the lack of sidewalks on his street…
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May 2, 11:13 a.m. [View larger] [Map] Some people complain about the poor urban planning around Aurora Avenue and its current state, some believe it’s beyond repair and some actually do something about it. Meet 82-year-old Richard Dyksterhuis, a former school principal turned activist. He is the force behind a group of neighbors who…
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Sketched April 21, 11:16 a.m. [View larger] When I prepared to move to Seattle three years ago and read “Aurora Avenue” on the map, I thought that must be a nice street. Aurora, which means dawn in Spanish, is a beautiful name. I was wrong. People actually advised…
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