Ballard
Working-class waterfront neighborhood of former shingle mills and shipyards, still home to a Scandinavian fishing fleet.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Ballard in Seattle opens with a grim joke in a lumber trade paper from the early 1900s, then turns toward Salmon Bay, once crowded with cedar shingle mills and the Scandinavian immigrants who worked them. You'll meet the shingle weavers, hear a pseudonym that says a lot about the job, and find out how the neighborhood chose to honor its mills at the local high school. Best heard looking out over the water of Salmon Bay.
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