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Article: MAGNUSON PARK HAS BIG POTENTIAL.(Editorial)(Editorial)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- September 26, 1999
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For Magnuson Park to realize its potential, it must first acknowledge its past. So come with us on a journey through time.
The destination is the Sand Point peninsula on Lake Washington before it became a war zone - first in its support of the military during World War II and the Korean War, then during peacetime skirmishes over transitional housing and dogs frolicing (or mucking about) on the shore.
Before humans made Sand Point over in their image, the higher areas of the peninsula were forested with Douglas fir, western red cedar and madrona. Toward the south end a small lake, that emptied into the big lake via a stream, was the spawning ground for ...