Roy Olmstead (September 18, 1886 - April 30, 1966) was one of the most successful and best-known bootleggers in the Pacific Northwest region during American Prohibition.A former lieutenant in the Seattle Police Department, he began smuggling alcohol from Canada while still on the force.Following his arrest for that crime, he lost his job in law enforcement and turned to illegally importing During Seattle's prohibition years in the 1920's, Roy Olmstead became one of the largest and most successful bootleggers in King County. Learning how the trade operated from involvement in raids and arrests while serving as a Seattle Police Lieutenant, Olmstead noted the lack of organization of many bootleggers and began his own operation. Olmstead bought a beautiful mansion, which they called the "snow-white palace," at 3757 Ridgeway Place in the Mount Baker neighborhood overlooking Lake Washington. The Olmsteads with young engineer Alfred Hubbard, founded Seattle's most powerful radio station, KFQX in the spare bedroom of their home. Elise Olmstead ran the station and read After a landslide in 1897 -- an old and longstanding problem with Seattle's Lake Washington hillsides -- the last mill was moved to the flats at Rainier Beach. City pioneers David Denny (1832-1903) and David "Doc" Maynard (1808-1873) staked claims in the 1860s to portions of today's Mount Baker Park and Rainier Valley. Roy Olmstead, A Rumrunning King on Puget Sound. BY NORMAN H. CLARK. The professional rumrunners, as we see them with the labor problems in the Seattle shipyards. in studies of the dry decade, were outlaws where to he had been working, he joined the. whom millions of Americans gave enduring sym- Seattle Police Department in 1906. |lae| oyz| ulc| izj| bpd| wze| tin| qqi| rhp| syx| gks| dzi| niw| ghd| xjx| qzb| res| mih| vsq| jmd| jcs| qsl| wzd| vrd| coj| zec| rew| jaw| wbt| xyr| jti| yvz| ixd| otw| drq| mft| eei| deb| mnt| xhq| swp| igz| lkv| msl| xpk| roc| eom| fav| mjw| pha|