Category Archives: Photos (People)

These photos were all taken by David Preston, unless otherwise noted.

Homeless Are Taking Over (Literally)

Posted on October 3, 2015 by DBP

A recent story from the Seattle Times illustrates the mess a city can get into when it tries to be nice and doesn’t ask too many questions. Take homelessness for example. In spite of all our self-guilting, Seattle has a braggable … Continue reading →

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ppl (12.18.13)

Posted on December 18, 2013 by DBP

ppl is an ongoing series of posts about the post-Nickelsville clean-up. Nickelsville is an illegal squatters camp –now three separate camps – that was evicted from the Highland Park neighborhood of West Seattle in early September, 2013. See the previous entry … Continue reading →

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White Center: More bars in more places

Posted on December 10, 2013 by DBP

See this place? Papa’s. Papa’s was raided by the Feds for weapons narcotics and shut down over two years ago. But Google doesn’t update its “street view” photos very often, so Papa’s is still there on the street view map, … Continue reading →

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Nickelsville: The Gift That Keeps on Taking

Posted on July 28, 2013 by DBP

July 8, 2013 People who support the idea of permanent homeless camps are fond of saying that homelessness is an economic problem and that the camps are one way of addressing that problem. It’s not hard to refute that claim. Consider this … Continue reading →

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