One of the Last Great Newsstands Is Still Standing

First & Pike News has been in business since 1979.

When Crosscut’s Laura Kaufman profiled Lee Lauckhart, the owner of Seattle newsstand First & Pike News, he revealed that he was keeping the operation solvent by taking no salary and relying on his Social Security. Four years later, this self-described “last of the Mohicans” is still going.

The latest area journalist to highlight Lauckhart’s Pacific Northwest print bastion is Seattle Times staff photographer Alan Berner. The gallery and accompanying item will warm the heart of anyone old enough to remember a time when scanning and sampling the wares of a neighborhood newsstand was as regular a media-consumption routine as scrolling through Google News on a smartphone.

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