On this bonus episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel speaks with Neil Hubbard, who was 19 years old when he and a friend produced a concert by New York protopunk band The Ramones at the Olympic Hotel in Seattle in March 1977. We go deep on the context, details and myth-like backstory of those distant years when Seattle was full of middle-class kids and was something of an incubator of organic music and other creative endeavors.

Special thanks to Erik Lacitis, whose Seattle Times' article, published on the 40th anniversary of the show at the Olympic Hotel, is essential reading:

https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/music/the-ramones-rattled-seattles-staid-olympic-hotel-exactly-40-years-ago/

CASCADE OF HISTORY is broadcast LIVE most Sunday nights at 8pm Pacific Time via SPACE 101.1 FM in Seattle and gallantly streams everywhere via space101fm.org. The radio station is located at historic Magnuson Park - formerly Sand Point Naval Air Station - on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle.

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On this bonus episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY, we present archival audio from a television program broadcast from the observation deck of the Space Needle on April 20, 2022.

"SPIRIT OF '62: Celebrating the Seattle World's Fair" was produced and hosted by Feliks Banel for the Seattle Channel, and features an all-star roster of special guests, including the late Louis Larsen, fair executive; the late C. David Hughbanks, fair staffer and longtime Seattle Center employee; Junius Rochester, who worked at the fair and whose father Al Rochester is credited with the idea of holding a fair in the first place; Seattle Times photographer Greg Gilbert; plus then-Seattle City Councilmember Andrew Lewis and Downtown Seattle Association CEO Jon Scholes - as well as a musical finale with Dave Ross, Lisa Brooks and Bob Antone.

CASCADE OF HISTORY is broadcast LIVE most Sunday nights at 8pm Pacific Time via SPACE 101.1 FM in Seattle and gallantly streams everywhere via space101fm.org. The radio station is located at historic Magnuson Park - formerly Sand Point Naval Air Station - on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle.

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On this bonus episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel speaks with Scott Daniels, Reference Services Manager for the Oregon Historical Society (OHS), about upcoming introductory research library workshops being offered at OHS in Portland in April and May.

For more information about the upcoming OHS workshops, please find links at the CASCADE OF HISTORY Facebook page:

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CASCADE OF HISTORY is broadcast LIVE most Sunday nights at 8pm Pacific Standard Time via SPACE 101.1 FM and gallantly streams live via space101fm.org. The radio station is located at historic Magnuson Park - formerly Sand Point Naval Air Station - on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle.

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Feliks Banel's guests on this episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY include Jean Sherrard on his NOW & THEN column in this coming weekend's Seattle Times about the Cadillac Hotel/Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park; plus archival feature with the late Edward Saylor of Enumclaw, member of the famous Doolittle Raid of April 18, 1942; and a conversation with Dr. Lindsey Swindall of the Stevens Institute of Technology on the May 18, 1952 concert by Paul Robeson at Peace Arch Park.

This LIVE broadcast of CASCADE OF HISTORY was originally presented at 4pm Pacific Standard Time on Thursday, April 17, 2025 via SPACE 101.1 FM and gallantly streaming live via space101fm.org at historic Magnuson Park - formerly Sand Point Naval Air Station - on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle.

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On this bonus episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel speaks with Dr. Kenneth Landry, a retired dentist and naval officer. As a young man in the early 1970s, Dr. Landry made pen-and-ink drawings of many buildings in downtown Seattle, including the Virginia Inn – which reportedly will close later this month.

CASCADE OF HISTORY is broadcast LIVE most Sunday nights at 8pm Pacific Time via SPACE 101.1 FM in Seattle and gallantly streams everywhere via space101fm.org. The radio station is located at historic Magnuson Park - formerly Sand Point Naval Air Station - on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle.

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Feliks Banel's guests on this episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY include roving correspondent Ken Zick with a live report from the soon-to-close Virginia Inn, and Nick Biermann from Save Ryan House with an update on preservation efforts in Sumner. We also hear highlights from recent bonus episode interviews with Albert Fisher on Seattle World's Fair Bubbleator history, and Justin McElroy, journalist from British Columbia and diehard baseball fan, with thoughts on how the current political upheaval will affect the Canadians who would typically visit Seattle for next month's three-game series pitting the Mariners against the Toronto Blue Jays.

This LIVE broadcast of CASCADE OF HISTORY was originally presented at 8pm Pacific Standard Time on Sunday, April 13, 2025 via SPACE 101.1 FM and gallantly streaming live via space101fm.org at historic Magnuson Park - formerly Sand Point Naval Air Station - on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle.

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On this bonus episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel speaks with Justin McElroy, longtime British Columbia resident, journalist for CBC Vancouver and diehard Toronto Blue Jays fan about the upcoming series in May 2025 when the Canadian MLB team will play a weekend series against the Mariners in Seattle. Will B.C. fans stay away this year - because of the political and economic situation - when they used to come by the thousands whenever the Blue Jays took on the Mariners? McElroy shares his perspectives as a Canadian and a baseball fan.

CASCADE OF HISTORY is broadcast LIVE most Sunday nights at 8pm Pacific Time via SPACE 101.1 FM in Seattle and gallantly streaming everywhere via space101fm.org. The radio station is located at historic Magnuson Park - formerly Sand Point Naval Air Station - on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle.

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On this bonus episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel digs into the archives for his 2016 conversation with the late Dan Morgenstern, legendary jazz scholar, about the 1952 Duke Ellington concert in Seattle. A recording of the concert was first issued in 1954 by RCA; Mr. Morgenstern wrote the liner notes for the 1995 reissue. The 1952 Seattle concert was held at the old Civic Auditorium, now McCaw Hall at Seattle Center. Mr. Morgenstern passed away in 2024 at age 94.

CASCADE OF HISTORY is broadcast LIVE most Sunday nights at 8pm Pacific Time via SPACE 101.1 FM in Seattle and gallantly streams everywhere via space101fm.org. The radio station is located at historic Magnuson Park - formerly Sand Point Naval Air Station - on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle.

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On this bonus episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel speaks with Albert Fisher, who coordinated movies and TV for the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, and who escorted the young actor Jay North around the fairgrounds one day during the festivities. Fisher shares his memories of North, who played the title character on TV's "Dennis The Menace" more than 60 years ago, and who passed way April 6, 2025 at age 73.

CASCADE OF HISTORY is broadcast LIVE most Sunday nights at 8pm Pacific Time via SPACE 101.1 FM in Seattle and gallantly streams everywhere via space101fm.org. The radio station is located at historic Magnuson Park - formerly Sand Point Naval Air Station - on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle.

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On this bonus episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel speaks with Chris McNaughton, a diver and amateur maritime archaeologist who got tapped by the Museum of North Idaho to help retrieve a priceless artifact from Lake Coeur d’Alene - a giant wooden rudder from a sternwheeler steamboat.

CASCADE OF HISTORY is broadcast LIVE most Sunday nights at 8pm Pacific Time via SPACE 101.1 FM in Seattle and gallantly streams everywhere via space101fm.org. The radio station is located at historic Magnuson Park - formerly Sand Point Naval Air Station - on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle.

Subscribe to the CASCADE OF HISTORY podcast via most podcast platforms.