Roots of Tomorrow: In the early 1900s, Bellevue was just a little junction with a thing for strawberries. That didn't stop James Ditty from imagining a major metropolis rising from his rural Eastside...
Officer Deuel (far left), one of Seattle’s first bicycle police officers, outside the Gifford & Grant cycle shop, circa 1900. Bike cops were hired to police cyclists and patrol the bike paths.
Roots of Tomorrow: Long before the Cascade Bicycle Club, Seattle was a booming city gripped by bike mania; its people caught up in the defense of their wheels.
Seattle fancies itself a modern city. But the bike paths, density and urban visioning we crow about aren't really so innovative as we'd all like to think.
