Roger Lippman
- 5 days ago
Life and Times in Leschi
Frink Park: Carlos Bulosan, Part 1 Overlooking hills and valleys, where trees dance and birds sing under the splendor of the sun in...
Roger Lippman
- Mar 25
Life and Times in Leschi: John M. Frink
Our neighborhood’s Frink Park is named for Leschi residents John and Abbie Frink, who donated the land to the city of Seattle in 1906....
Roger Lippman
- Feb 27
Life and Times in Leschi: Frink Park, Part 4
For over 25 years, Darrell Howe and Darcy Thompson have been restoring and maintaining Frink and Upper Leschi Parks. Together they have...
Roger Lippman
- Jan 28
Life and Times in Leschi: Frink Park, Part 3
A couple of bits of Frink Park history that did not survive the ages were two clay tennis courts. One was on South King Street, just...
Roger Lippman
- Dec 28, 2023
Life and Times in Leschi: Frink Park, Part 2
Frink Park was created as, and remains, a natural, wooded park in the urban surrounding. It retains the Olmsted vision of a forest...
Roger Lippman
- Nov 26, 2023
Life and Times in Leschi: Frink Park, Part 1
Established in 1906, Frink Park, Leschi’s vast, rambling woods, lies in the neighborhood’s geographical heart. Yet even those who are...
Roger Lippman
- Oct 23, 2023
Life and Times in Leschi: The Leschi Ferry Dawn, Part 2
When we left off last month, the redoubtable Lake Washington ferry Dawn had mostly sunk at the Leschi dock in a ferocious 1923 storm....