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Seattle Post-Intelligencer photographer Meryl Schenker captured these glimpses of daily life around the community. Click on a thumbnail to see a page featuring a larger, more detailed version of the image.

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John Thomas Jr., the King of Hubcaps, is uncertain exactly how many hubcaps he has in stock at his store, "but I've been saying 100,000 for 10 years."

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Eastbound traffic on Cloverdale Street moves in the same direction as the geese painted under the Highway 99 overpass. The colorful mural was created by Panels for Progress, a group whose work has been financed by the city. South Park exhibits many public works of art.

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Kelvin McCoy, director of summer day camp at the South Park Community Center, walks with Ebony Mosley, 8, back to the center from its nearby field.

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John Massenburg throws "clean wood" into a recycling bin at the recycling and disposal station which was built in 1966 and sits on 9.23 acres of land.

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Antonio Velasques works long hours at Mexi-Market's bakery creating breads and pastries.

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Molly and Moose are lifelong South Park residents. They are playing stick at Duwamish Waterway Park, which features picnic tables and barbecue pits.

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Mark Hernandez cleans out his bus at the end of the school year at Ryder Transportation Services Inc. He says he'll miss the kids now that school's over.

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Boeing retiree Russell Lockwood, 80, lives in the southwest corner of South Park and has fond memories of working for the company.

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Eleven-year-old Carlos Sanchez uses the pedestrian bridge across Highway 99 to gain speed coming down onto South Henderson Street, where he lives. The highway splits the South Park community in half.

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2nd Use assistant yard manager Tim Anderson, center, sits with co-owners Michael Armstrong, left, and Lawson Schaller amid an assortment of used building materials being resold to the public at their store.

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Saturday, July 3, 1999

Obscure neighborhood on the rebound

Slice of life full of diversity, contrasts

Art big part of neighborhood's renaissance

Jon Hahn: Building for the future with stuff from the past

Things to do while you're here

Scenes of South Park

South Park historical album

South Park by the numbers


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