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been "semi-fireproof." There were adjustable passenger slips and a depressed railway track for loading freight cars. There were offices and waiting rooms on the street end. Like Colman Dock, the Grand Trunk dock had an overhead bridge to the
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Pacific Railway dock stood just north of Colman Dock at the foot of Marion Street. The original dock was built in 1910 as the largest wooden pier on the West Coast. Construction of the dock required 5,000
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Pacific dock burns on July 30, 1914”, HistoryLink.org Essay 3475, (July 31, 2001).
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on the "Triangle Route", which ran between Seattle,
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645:Kline, Mary S., and Bayless, G.A.,
588:Thomas Street History Services 2006
1290:History of King County, Washington
1018:Shug's Soda Fountain and Ice Cream
649:, Bayless Books, Seattle, WA 1983
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212:Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
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853:DeLaurenti Food & Wine
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326:Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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659:Newell, Gordon R., ed.,
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898:Golden Age Collectables
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463:(1917), at pages 27-37.
321:Seattle Fire Department
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151:was a shipping pier in
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121:122°20′20″W
108:Coordinates
1284:Categories
1198:Public art
1179:Post Alley
710:2008-10-29
616:References
341:Snoqualmie
299:wharfinger
198:board feet
118:47°36′13″N
1117:Geography
918:Le Pichet
913:Le Panier
755:Buildings
244:Vancouver
1269:Category
1208:(Gerber)
1139:Gum Wall
811:Business
572:Archived
431:See also
335:Duwamish
306:creosote
269:Duwamish
240:Victoria
230:and the
220:and the
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37:Type
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246:,
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