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GREG GILBERT / THE SEATTLE TIMES
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Thursday, May 10, 2007

Rediscovering Ballard's soul

Mary Fortino, president of the Ballard Historical Society, reads the plaque next to Rudy's Barbershop on Ballard Avenue. Like more than a third of the 26 buildings on the avenue that received historic plaques, the site once housed a saloon.