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Race for the Cure

by Judy Schwartz Haley

I’ve done a lousy job of promoting this, but next Sunday my team of walkers will join thousand of others in the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in Seattle. Our team is called Pretty in Pink – Judy Haley and if you are in the Seattle area and care to join us, [...]

Drive By Shootings

by Judy Schwartz Haley

Since the birth of my daughter, I’ve had a difficult time getting out and taking photographs of anything other than the baby. Of course, you can’t beat her for subject matter. But I do enjoy getting out into the world and looking at it through the viewfinder.

The question becomes how do I do this [...]

Vintage Postcards: Pike Place Market, Seattle

by Judy Schwartz Haley

Three Girls Bakery in Seattle’s Pike Place Market, ca 1917. Source: University of Washington Libraries.

The Three Girls Bakery has been around since 1912 and was one of Seattle’s first legitimate businesses to be entirely owned by women, a Mrs. Jones and two of her friends.

Once upon a time I worked in [...]

Marsh Island

by Judy Schwartz Haley

It was a hot day in August, 98 degrees, and the heat was doing strange things to the light, and our moods, and my hair. But we had to get out of the house.

From the lower parking lot of Seattle’s Museum of History and Industry there is a little trail that leads to [...]