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Lesser Seattle was Watson's curveball way of celebrating the city—he didn't think it needed much improvement. Using humor to expose the absurdity of unregulated growth and mindless booster campaigns, his movement resonated with locals who were watching rich Californians bid up Seattle housing prices.
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reducing the frequency of his column. Watson remembered, "I picked up the paper and saw the column wasn't in there. The managing editor called and said he was thinking of cutting me back to one column a week. I said maybe we should make it zero columns a week." On October 30, 1983, after a hiatus of
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Watson helped found Lesser Seattle, a curmudgeonly counterpoint to Greater Seattle Inc.... Lesser Seattle began as a joke with a serious message. By the late 1980s, however, it had sparked a revolt, particularly against real estate-rich Californians fleeing their ravaged, overpriced state. Lesser
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According to Lesser Seattle and the KBO, immigration of newcomers into the Puget Sound region clogged the roads, spent too much money bidding up prices, did not understand the "NorthWest way of life", and generally made trouble. Watson periodically suggested actions that KBO members could take to
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Watson continued to write his column in the style that had made him a well-known fixture of Seattle journalism. As was his custom, he continued to skewer the rich and powerful in his columns, always fighting against the kind of development and modernization that he felt was destroying the city he
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Watson's new column quickly broadened its scope to cover all aspects of life in Seattle. In 1959 it was rechristened "This, Our City." By 1962, the column, primarily a "three dot" compilation of short items, was running five days a week. When a particular issue caught his attention, Watson would
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was pitched the idea of an "Around the Town" column by a group of restaurant owners, who offered to partially underwrite the costs of producing the column in exchange for an occasional plug. The new column, "This, Our Town," was assigned to Watson.
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Referring to Lesser Seattle's supporters as KBO (Keep the Bastards Out) Agents, he exhorted them to warn tourists and would-be immigrants of Seattle's earthquakes, torrential rains, mudslides and constant cloud cover.
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Emmett, along with his friend Sam Bryant, opened the city's first oyster bar on February 18, 1979. Watson sold his share of the Oyster Bar to Bryant in 1987. Still in business today,
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the following year; his father, an itinerant laborer unable to care for his 14-month-old son, arranged for Emmett's adoption by long-time friends John and Elizabeth Watson of
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knew and loved. Over the years the tone in his columns softened somewhat and they often consisted of his reminisces of "Old Seattle." In November 2000, when his union,
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During the war, Watson and some friends produced a newsletter to send to baseball players serving in the military. The newsletter brought him to the attention of an
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Watson grew up in Seattle during the 1920s and 1930s. He was a tireless advocate, through his column as well as through a fictional organization he created called
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after perceived unfair treatment by a new editor, although he still contributed to the paper as a freelancer. Watson's criticisms of then Mariners owner
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area from out-of-state. Watson periodically wrote about the group in his column from 1957 to 1997. It was a satirical response to the pro-growth
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Born in Seattle in 1918, Watson and twin brother Clement were the sons of Garfield and Lena McWhirt. Emmett's mother and twin brother died of
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Lesser Seattle is a fictional organization invented by Watson. It is also known for its KBO agents and supporters, where KBO stands for "
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group Greater Seattle Inc., which had been founded in the 1950s. The organization is somewhat similar to the satirical
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His first Lesser Seattle column appeared in 1957. He wrote hundreds more in the next 40 years.
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Watson suffered an ear infection as a child that permanently damaged his hearing. He attended
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Seattle anointed KBO agents, short for "Keep the Bastards Out," and proclaimed its motto:
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Watson received international notoriety in 1961 when he broke the story of novelist
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in Seattle and died of complications from the surgery on May 11 at the age of 82.
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and continued there as a columnist until shortly before his death in 2001.
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In his column and life in general, Watson was an early champion of
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more than three decades, Watson's column appeared once again in
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Aw Shucks, This Bivalve Fan Never Met An Oyster He Didn't Like
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chose not to match. He initially wrote a sports column at the
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In March 2001, Watson underwent surgery for an abdominal
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Watson was called "one of the greats" by contemporaries
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and is currently owned by Sam Bryant's son, Thurman.
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Keep the Bastards Out

Seattle, Washington
Newspaper columnist
newspaper columnist
Seattle
Washington
sportswriter
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The Seattle Times
Lesser Seattle
Spanish Influenza
West Seattle
West Seattle High School
Franklin
Fred Hutchinson
University of Washington
Huskies
Tubby Graves
Seattle Rainiers
Pacific Coast League
curveball
World War II
editor
Seattle Star
polio
essay
civil rights
social reform
anti-war movement

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