The Cadillac Hotel in 1971, shortly after Pioneer Square was admitted to the National Register of Historic Places.
As anyone who’s been on an Inside Passage cruise knows, Seattle has had deep ties to the Alaskan panhandle town of Skagway. During the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s, Seattle benefited greatly by functioning as the “Gateway to the Klondike,” where gold diggers loaded up on supplies before pressing their luck in Canada’s Yukon wilderness. Even today, Seattle is the main port for freight and passenger service to Southeast Alaska, which includes tiny Skagway, and every summer, the town relies on a stream of lower-48 tourists who
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