Front Street Cable Company
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- Mar 1, 1889The $10,000 Bet That Built Seattle’s Front StreetSuperintendent Thompson risks a fortune to beat the calendar, while a separate land dispute erupts over tide flats near Grant Street.Front Street, Seattle, WA
- Mar 21, 1889The Wage Theft That Shook the Front Street Cable LineThirteen teamsters and laborers sue the city's transit company and a contractor for unpaid wages, exposing the precarious financial lives of Seattle’s working class in the early 1900s.Front Street, Seattle, WA
- Sep 27, 1889The Transit Dream of 1889A Seattle streetcar consolidation promised a single nickel fare from the bay to Salmon Bay, linking the city's future through private transit deals.Commercial Street, Seattle, WA
- May 4, 1892The Great Seattle Streetcar ConsolidationA multi-million dollar maneuver promises to unify the city's competing electric lines, potentially abandoning local power-houses in a massive quest for operational efficiency.5th & Pine, Seattle, WA
- Aug 6, 1894The City Will Pave First Avenue—Cable Tracks or NotSeattle's street committee orders brick pavement from Yesler to Pike and threatens to pave straight over the Front Street Cable Company's sagging rails if the company won't pay to raise them.Seattle, WA
- Jan 6, 1895The Denny Family's Streetcar Empire Comes DueA tangle of promissory notes, pledged railway stocks and bonds lands D. T. Denny and his sons in superior court, with a judgment looming over Seattle's early car lines.Superior Court of Washington for King County, Seattle, WA