Cascade of History

Cascade of History

CASCADE OF HISTORY is the only LIVE radio show presenting news and stories about people doing cool things with and for history in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and British Columbia. We talk about people, artifacts, places, landmarks, public lands, state and national parks, trails, highways and the historic events that can bring us all together. The show is broadcast live Sunday nights at 8pm Pacific Time on SPACE 101.1 FM (and streaming via http://www.space101fm.org ) from studios located on the shores of Lake Washington in historic Magnuson Park in Seattle, former site of Sand Point Naval Air Station. Send your questions, comments, guest suggestions and other correspondence to cascadeofhistory@gmail.com.

Episodes

BONUS EPISODE: Sole Surviving Survivor of June 17, 1958 Ironworkers Memorial Bridge Collapse

June 16, 2025 • 37 mins
On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel speaks with Doug Parton of Ironworker Local 97 in Vancouver, BC and with Lucien Lessard, the sole surviving survivor of the June 17, 1958 collapse of what’s now called the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge. The bridge crosses Burrard Inlet near Vancouver, British Columbia. Special thanks to CBC Vancouver for featuring Mr. Parton on the June 17, 2025 broadcast of The Early Edition...
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Ep. 112: LIVE BROADCAST from Yakima Valley Trolleys in Yakima, WA

June 14, 2025 • 60 mins
Feliks Banel's guests on this LIVE REMOTE BROADCAST of CASCADE OF HISTORY include Ken Johnsen, founder of the Yakima Valley Trolleys (YVT); Moira Nadal, preservation programs director of the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation; John Baule, retired former director, Yakima Valley Museum; Curt Wilson, Downtown Association of Yakima (DAY); YVT motorman Jim Moore; musicians Ken Toney and Palmer Wright; and roving correspondent - ...
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BONUS EPISODE: 5 SPOT, Ray's Boathouse and Other Seattle Neon Memories with John Berkowitz

June 13, 2025 • 22 mins
On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel's guest is John Berkowitz, who worked in the neon sign industry in Seattle in the 1980s and 1990s and had a hand in several iconic signs – including the 5 SPOT on Queen Anne Hill, and Ray’s Boathouse at Shilshole Bay. 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....
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BONUS EPISODE: UW Responds to Advisory Board Concerns about Home of "Boys in the Boat"

June 11, 2025 • 39 mins
In a follow-up to last week’s BONUS EPISODE and to this past Sunday’s broadcast about the ASUW Shellhouse – best known as home to the “Boys in the Boat” - Feliks Banel speaks with two officials from the University of Washington about their work to preserve and update the beloved structure along the Montlake Cut. We also hear the UW's response to recent concerns expressed by some advisory board members that the project is not turnin...
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BONUS EPISODE: King County Real Property Record Cards and a Surprise Collection of Images

June 11, 2025 • 13 mins
Feliks Banel’s guest on this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY is Emily Venomen, research archivist at the Puget Sound Regional Branch of the Washington State Archives. We cover the basics of "Real Property Record Cards" - those tax assessor photos and other information that dates from the late 1930s to the early 1970s, and how historians and others may access collections of these documents from various counties around the Everg...
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BONUS EPISODE: Seattle History Pageant "The Dream and The Deed" LIVE BROADCAST from 2002

June 9, 2025 • 62 mins
On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, we present complete audio from a revival of the Seattle centennial history pageant “The Dream and The Deed.” It was originally written and produced in 1951 and 1952 by University of Washington drama professor Glenn Hughes. For the 50th anniversary of the pageant – which happened to also be the 50th anniversary of the old Museum of History & Industry in Montlake and the 150th anniversar...
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Ep. 111: UW "Boys in the Boat" Controversy, Ryan House Legal Battle, 1889 Seattle Fire Eyewitness Audio

June 8, 2025 • 59 mins
Feliks Banel's guests on this live broadcast of CASCADE OF HISTORY include Nick Biermann of Save Ryan House with a head-spinning twist in the legal battle to preserve Sumner's most historic structure; and Rebecca Stedman, member of the Advisory Board on the restoration project for the ASUW Shellhouse - home of the "Boys in the Boat" - which is embroiled in a preservation controversy; plus: audio of the only known eyewitness account...
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BONUS EPISODE: The Most Significant Event in Old-Time Radio History

June 5, 2025 • 28 mins
On this bonus episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel speaks with radio historian Liz McLeod about how American radio networks covered D-Day, the Allied landings in France of June 6, 1944. More than 25 years ago, McLeod ranked D-Day as the most significant event in old-time radio history for the many broadcasting firsts, the quality of the coverage, and the technical and organizational innovations that made it all possible. C...
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BONUS EPISODE: Lost & Found Sound from Nazi-Occupied Amsterdam

June 3, 2025 • 15 mins
On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, we present very personal vintage audio from Seattle food writer Ronald Holden, and a conversation with Mr. Holden about his late Aunt Marga. Her full name was Margarete Pauline Isaac, and in 1941 she lived in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation. Marga recorded a one-minute audio disc and mailed it to her sister – Ronald Holden’s mother – in Oregon, nearly 85 years ago. For more detail...
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BONUS EPISODE: Trouble Behind the Scenes at UW Home of "Boys In The Boat"

June 1, 2025 • 14 mins
On this bonus episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel speaks with Al Mackenzie and Ray Skoff, two members of the advisory board for the project to restore and preserve the home of the "Boys in the Boat" - a World War I seaplane hangar along the Montlake Cut at the University of Washington in Seattle. The two men say that the UW is seeking approval for changes to the structure which would harm its historic integrity, and they ...
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BONUS 'GO PACERS' EPISODE: Supersonics NBA Championship 25th Anniversary Event - June 1, 2004

June 1, 2025 • 73 mins
On this BONUS 'GO PACERS' EDITION of CASCADE OF HISTORY, we present complete audio from a 25th anniversary commemoration of the Seattle Supersonics' one and only 1979 NBA World Championship. Panelists are the late John “J.J.” Johnson, a member of the championship team, plus the late ‘Voice of the Sonics’ Bob Blackburn, as well as Greg Heberlein, the retired Seattle Times sportswriter who covered the team in 1979. This commemorati...
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Ep. 110: ENCORE EDITION - FOX Weather's Scott Sistek on the 2021 Pacific NW Heatdome

May 29, 2025 • 59 mins
Feliks Banel's guests on this BONUS ENCORE EDITION of CASCADE OF HISTORY are FOX Weather meteorologist Scott Sistek, in a conversation recorded just after the 2021 Pacific Northwest "heatdome"; and longtime Seattle journalist Essex Porter reflecting on his career after his then-recent retirement from KIRO 7 News. Both interviews are from the archives of COLUMBIA CONVERSATIONS, for which Feliks was the founding producer and host. T...
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BONUS EPISODE: Yakima Valley Trolleys Added to MOST ENDANGERED LIST

May 28, 2025 • 19 mins
On this bonus episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel speaks with Ken Johnsen, one of the founders of the Yakima Valley Trolley in Yakima, Washington. This historic interurban railway in Central Washington is the last of its kind in the United States. On May 27, 2025, the Yakima Valley Trolley was named to the Washington Trust for Historic Preservations’ LIST OF MOST ENDANGERED PLACES. Ken Johnsen explains why the trolley line...
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BONUS EPISODE: Alex Silverman and KNX News Coverage of January 2025 LA Fires

May 28, 2025 • 34 mins
On this bonus episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel speaks with Alex Silverman, who recently left KNX News, the legendary commercial news radio station in Los Angeles. Silverman was serving as Director of News and Programming in January 2025 when a series of devastating wildfires struck Southern California. During that time, KNX provided its listeners with some of the best live and local radio coverage in recent memory for ...
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BONUS EPISODE: John C. Hughes of Legacy WA's Six Decades of History & Journalism

May 27, 2025 • 73 mins
On this bonus episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel speaks with John C. Hughes on the eve of his retirement in a long and far-ranging conversation. Hughes has been a journalist and historian in the Evergreen State for six decades, including 42 years at his hometown newspaper - the Aberdeen World - and the past 17 years with Legacy Washington, collecting and publishing oral histories and biographies as part of the Washington ...
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BONUS EPISODE: Mystery of the Giant Neon Baseball & Bat at Sicks Stadium - Part 2

May 24, 2025 • 26 mins
On this bonus episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY, Feliks Banel speaks with Randy Dixon of the non-profit group in Pocatello, Idaho called Relight The Night - for Part 2 of a miniseries we like to call "The Mystery of the Giant Neon Baseball & Bat at Sicks Stadium." Mr. Dixon is our guide to a little-known world of neon collectors and experts in the United States, and offers his help to determine what might have become of the distinctive...
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BONUS EPISODE: KIRO Newsradio 71 LIVE from Mount St. Helens' 10th Anniversary in 1990

May 21, 2025 • 29 mins
On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY Feliks Banel presents portions of a rare aircheck from KIRO Newsradio 71’s May 18, 1990 broadcast from atop Mount St. Helens. The tenth anniversary of the 1980 eruption inspired the station to mount an ambitious and expensive production, the likes of which aren’t seen much on the radio landscape these days. As described on the May 18, 2025 broadcast of CASCADE OF HISTORY by Bill Yeend an...
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BONUS EPISODE: Sunken Mystery Boat Discovered in Idaho Panhandle

May 20, 2025 • 30 mins
Feliks Banel's guests on this bonus episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY are Hannah Combs and Joe Gibbs of the Bonner County Historical Society and Museum, and explorer/diver Chris McNaughton. The trio shares the story of the recent discovery of a sunken mystery boat in a river/lake in the Idaho Panhandle, and about diving on the wreck, and researching its history. In this interview, Ms. Combs reveals the latest theories about the possibl...
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BONUS EPISODE: Governor Daniel J. Evans at MOHAI in June 2001

May 19, 2025 • 51 mins
On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, we present audio from a presentation made by the late Daniel J. Evans, former governor and U.S. senator for the Evergreen State. The presentation took place in the McCurdy Gallery at the old Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) in Seattle's Montlake neighborhood on June 14, 2001. Governor Evans was invited to share his views and ideas about what stories should be included in what ultima...
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Ep. 109: Mount St. Helens and the Golden Age of KIRO Newsradio, Ryan House and VE Day Anniversary

May 18, 2025 • 60 mins
Feliks Banel's guests on this live broadcast of CASCADE OF HISTORY include Bill Yeend and Andy Ludlum, who were both working for KIRO Newsradio in May 1980 when Mount St. Helens erupted; Bill was host of the morning news and Andy was managing editor, and they share their memories and recollections in this live conversation marking the 45th anniversary of the May 18, 1980 eruption. Then, Nick Biermann checks in with an update on the...
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