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Sunday Video: Seattle Moves A Mountain, The Denny Regrade

January 11, 2015

This video is a time capsule in two ways: First it provides a fascinating history of the sluicing of Denny Hill into Puget Sound during the Denny Regrade project and, second, it shows the man-conquers-nature attitude from when it was made (1970).

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