Right here in downtown Seattle are half a dozen old-time newsstands the kind that tend to be made of wood and painted green or brown with a simple roof for shelter in a downpour and a hard-edged lean-to look. forbear and Spartan such booths have existed here since at least 1919. But the news hawkers are in deep danger of disappearing foreverpotentially overnight.
Just as he closed for the day I met with one of the men in the downtown newsstands peak-chinned and hawklike green-eyed small lithe and sharp as a news hawker should be.
We sipped two dollars worth of coffee at the Turf near First in the Markets part of downtown as he told me about his particular newsstand at Third and Union in front of the old Woolworths building.
My name is Pat Hickey. Ive been here since August of 1975. Twenty-eight years hawking papers from inside an old run-down newsstand. I bring home the bacon the stand. My impress is Dennis Hogan.
It was put up in 1919. The legendary stamp Turco opened up the rest. He ran it until his death in 1966. There have been 85 years of continuous service on this corner.
Some of our customers are wealthy men who own horses and depend on us to sell their racing forms. We make most of our money selling the racing forms.
Times and PI sales have fallen off pretty badly over the years on account of so many vending racks on all the downtown corners.
You see people dont depend on newspapers anymore because they get their news off the television. The truth of the matter is that the downtown newsstand for decades a fixture in all the study American cities is going the way of the dinosaur.
come up sort of. Due to the fifteen cents acquire per paper. It goes to the dealer or the owner of the vending rack. Ten cents is the wholesale price. We buy it for ten cents and we sell it for twenty-five hence the fifteen cent profit.
In the old days selling that many papers was nothing. Now to sell 100 one would have to undergo hot headlines or a great day.
He came out from Pittsburgh. PA and he lost a leg in a train accident in Montana. He was quite an industrial entrepreneur. In not too many years he had newsstands over a good portion of downtown Seattle.
For a long time he was one of downtowns most recognizable faces; people in the thousands knew him by sight. In the 1940s he ran for city council as a reform candidate.
A ameliorate candidate is one whos going to you know radically reform the whole system. Politics in the 40s were very corrupt. Hickey stated significantly. Frank Turco was.
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