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Cascade of History

CASCADE OF HISTORY is the only LIVE radio show presenting news and stories about people doing cool things with and for history in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and British Columbia. We talk about people, artifacts, books, maps, photos, places, landmarks, public lands, state and national parks, trails, highways, and the historic events that can bring us all together. The show is broadcast LIVE most Sunday nights at 8pm Pacific Time on SPACE 101.1 FM (and streaming via http://www.space101fm.org ) from

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BONUS EPISODE: Seattle Architect Elisa Renouard on...

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2025/12/05

Feliks Banel's guest on this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY is Elisa Renouard, Lecturer at the University of Washington Architecture Department and Associate at Olson Kundig Architects in Seattle.After hearing about our conversation earlier this week with landscape architect Laurie Olin – where Mr. Olin described an assignment he did as a student at the University of Washington 65 years and which he assumed was lost to the mists of time - Ms. Renouard shared a copy of Mr. Olin’s work from the

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01:04:39

BONUS HOLIDAY EPISODE: Archival Audio "Northpole PM...

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2025/12/05

On this BONUS HOLIDAY EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel shares archival audio from his 25th annual holiday radio play. "Northpole PM News" was conceived of, produced and directed by Feliks Banel in his role as founding director of Seattle Radio Theatre, a volunteer group he created in 2000 at the old Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) in Seattle's Montlake neighborhood. The festive play is a parody of American drive-time radio news, and features several well-known and highly talented

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00:41:36

BONUS EPISODE: Tour of Former Immigration Bldg in...

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2025/12/03

On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel tours the historic "U.S. Immigrant Station and Assay Office" on the south edge of downtown Seattle with Brian Lane, one of the many artists who have studio spaces inside the former U.S. government facility. Brian Lane is a printmaker and letterpress artist who's had a studio in the building for 12 years. He's an arts educator, and is deeply committed to his art, as well as to sharing the history of the old immigration facility - and

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01:44:18

BONUS EPISODE: The Heady Seattle Years of...

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2025/12/02

Feliks Banel's guest on this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY is world-renowned landscape architect - and renaissance man - Laurie Olin. Laurie Olin has been associated with many high profile projects around the world, and taught at the University of Pennsylvania for decades. Earlier in his career, Olin studied architecture at the University of Washington, and spent several years in Seattle from the late 1950s to the early 1970s working with a range of architects and civic leaders, and later

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01:00:07

BONUS EPISODE: Magical LIVE BROADCAST from Candy Cane...

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2025/12/01

We kick off December 2025 with this ARCHIVAL ENCORE BONUS EPISODE from December 2024. Feliks Banel's guests on this recording of a magical live broadcast of CASCADE OF HISTORY from Candy Cane Lane in Seattle on December 15, 2024 include roving correspondent/field producer Ken Zick; Vincent "Mister Candy Cane Lane" Miller on the origins of the grassroots decoration project; Phil Edlund with an update on Parkland School, now open once again and serving as a community center; Dan Evans, Jr., son of

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00:18:38

BONUS EPISODE: Challenges of Residential Historic...

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2025/11/30

Feliks Banel's guest on this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY is Todd Scott, Preservation Architect and Planner with King County.In a BONUS EPISODE conversation earlier this year with Todd Scott (about the Masonic Home in Des Moines, Washington) he spoke briefly about rising property values creating additional historic preservation challenges in a few specific communities in King County – and plans were made to circle back and go a little deeper on the topic. One particular area where Todd

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00:17:50

BONUS EPISODE: Lost & Found Sound of the "Magic Radio...

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2025/11/26

On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel presents archival sound from two radio stories he produced in search of the "Magic Radio Santa" of Centralia, Washington. The Magic Radio Santa appeared for decades on radio station KELA in the southwest part of the Evergreen State from the late 1940s until the 1970s, reading Christmas letters and wish lists of presents from local children.The first part of this episode is from December 2018, when Banel produced a story for a Seattle radio

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00:08:22

BONUS EPISODE: Vintage Local History Podcast "Seattle...

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2025/11/26

On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel presents an archival episode from the local history podcast "Seattle Rewind" from the holiday season of 2010. "Seattle Rewind" was a series produced by Feliks Banel and Casey McNerthney for the old Seattle-PI news website.This episode of "Seattle Rewind" was originally released at Thanksgiving 2010. It focuses on two downtown Seattle holiday traditions at local department stores that traditionally began each year in late November: elaborate

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00:24:55

BONUS EPISODE: On 35th Anniversary of I-90 Murrow...

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2025/11/25

Feliks Banel's guest on this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY is Eleanor Boba, a public historian based in Seattle who recently discovered that the large bronze commemorative plaque for the Interstate 90 Homer Hadley Bridge across Lake Washington is missing. Homer Hadley is the Seattle-based engineer credited with the idea for a concrete floating bridge, and for the design of the original 1940 Lacey V. Murrow Lake Washington Floating Bridge (which sank on November 25, 1990 while undergoing

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01:00:03

Ep. 127: Whidbey Maker of Vintage Documents for Ken...

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2025/11/24

Feliks Banel's guests on this LIVE BROADCAST of CASCADE OF HISTORY include Paul McClintock of Whidbey Island, who created many 18th century documents for Ken Burns' "American Revolution" documentary series currently airing on PBS; Mitsy Hunter of Spokane Preservation Advocates on the recent successful grassroots campaign to defeat a city ordinance which would have created a moratorium on historic districts; highlights from a 2021 interview with seasoned journalist (and "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me"

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00:37:09

BONUS EPISODE: D.B. Cooper 50th Anniversary Radio...

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2025/11/23

On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel presents his 2021 D.B. Cooper skyjacking 50th anniversary special "COOPER FIVE-OH." "COOPER FIVE-OH" includes an all-star lineup of D.B. Cooper experts and witnesses. We interview the FBI’s Larry Carr, lead agent on the case when it was closed several years ago. We also talk with Cooper skyjacking passenger Larry Finegold, and Seattle Times photographers Greg Gilbert and Bruce McKim, who were both at SeaTac Airport that night as the

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00:15:42

BONUS EPISODE: Archival Interview with Danny Swanson...

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2025/11/23

On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel presents an archival interview with Danny Swanson, grandson of the founder of historic Swanson's Shoe Repair in Seattle's Wallingford neighborhood.Swanson’s Shoe Repair is the subject of a long feature story in the Seattle Times this weekend. Reporter for the Seattle Times is David Gutman, and the piece is called “How one Seattle cobbler explains a century of economic

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00:36:16

BONUS EPISODE: KOMO Radio in Seattle Breaks the News...

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2025/11/22

On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel presents his archival interview from 2013 with Bryan Johnson, longtime KOMO Radio and TV journalist in Seattle. Johnson describes his early career at KOMO Radio in the late 1950s, and the morning he was on the job - Friday, November 22, 1963 - and had to break the news that President Kennedy had been assassinated in Dallas. During the interview, we also listen back to a piece Johnson produced for ABC News' national radio feed about Seattle

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00:34:53

BONUS EPISODE: Tour of Metsker Maps at Historic Pike...

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2025/11/22

On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel tours Metsker Maps at historic Pike Place Market on First Avenue in downtown Seattle, Washington on the eve of the 2025 holiday shopping season. Guest and "tour guide" is Walker Willingham, longtime Metsker employee and knowledgeable expert on maps and cartography. Mr. Willingham gives a tour of the store, tells about its history, and describes some of the maps, globes and books that make Metsker Maps one of the most distinctive retail

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00:40:37

BONUS EPISODE: "Oregon Gold - A History of Mining...

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2025/11/21

Feliks Banel's guest on this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY is Bill Willingham, whose book, "Oregon Gold: A History of Mining from the Civil War into the Progressive Era" was just published by OSU Press in Corvallis, Oregon. The history of gold mining in Oregon is not widely known and appreciated. Bill Willingham grew up in Eastern Oregon, and says his new book was about 70 years in the making. I spoke with Bill Willingham by phone on Thursday, November 20, 2025. For more information about

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00:31:22

BONUS EPISODE: "Campfire Stories: San Juan Islands"...

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2025/11/20

Feliks Banel's guests on this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY are Ilyssa and Dave Kyu, authors and editors of the "CAMPFIRE STORIES" series for Mountaineers Books. Their most recent volumes in the series focus on specific regions of the United States, and present collections of place-based essays and poems along with carefully curated information for the thoughtful traveler. Their latest is called “Campfire Stories: The San Juan Islands: Tales & Travel Companion.” CASCADE OF HISTORY spoke by

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00:40:13

BONUS EPISODE: Radio Historian Michael C. Keith on...

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2025/11/19

Feliks Banel's guest on this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY is author and radio historian Michael C. Keith. He’s a retired academic, and prolific author and editor of fiction and non-fiction. Among his titles are the iconic text book THE RADIO STATION, and the collection of essays RADIO CULTURES: THE SOUND MEDIUM IN AMERICAN LIFE.Michael C. Keith also worked closely with the late Norman Corwin, American radio playwright and author, and the man responsible for WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS. WE HOLD

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00:39:20

BONUS EPISODE: Archival Interview with the late Gene...

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2025/11/17

On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel presents an archival interview with the late Gene Casey from November 2015. It was late on the snowy night of November 17, 1955 when an aging DC-4 full of soldiers on their way home from Korea took off from Boeing Field in Seattle. Within minutes, the plane crashed and burned in a residential neighborhood in the community of Burien, Washington. Twenty-eight of the 74 people on board died in the crash. Propeller maintenance errors were later

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01:00:00

Ep. 126: Seattle Times' Danny Westneat on Mayor 'Doc'...

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2025/11/17

Feliks Banel's guests on this LIVE BROADCAST of CASCADE OF HISTORY include Danny Westneat of The Seattle Times on his column about Seattle's socialist mayor of a century ago - Edwin 'Doc' Brown - and Seattle's Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson; explorer and historian Matt McCauley describing his dives in Lake Washington on the wreck of the old Lacey V. Murrow Floating Bridge - which sank 35 years ago on November 25, 1990; and Lloyd Lytle of Save Des Moines Masonic Home, with an update on the legal effort to

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01:03:38

BONUS EPISODE: “Once Upon This Land - Archaeology in...

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2025/11/14

Feliks Banel's guest on this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY is Bob Muckle, whose book, "Once Upon This Land: Archaeology in British Columbia and the Stories it Tells" was recently published by UBC Press in Vancouver, British Columbia.Robert J. "Bob" Muckle has been an archaeologist and educator in British Columbia for decades. His new book provides a comprehensive look at key archaeological sites in the province that illuminate thousands of years of history, and he takes time to define

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