PAUL DORPAT
	In the "now" scene, University of Washington Professor Emeritus of Music William O. Smith poses in a Seattle Times parking lot on John Street. There, 70 years or so earlier, Greek-born Nicholas Oeconomacos posed with his tulips for my now long-gone friend, local sign painter, raconteur and celebrity-chaser, Arthur "Link" Lingenbrink.

Despite his celebrity, Oeconomacos played in the streets during the Great Depression, collecting change in a failed attempt to pay his mortgage. In the Garden of Memories beside his new Cascade neighborhood home, the House of the Terrestrial Globe, he regularly performed between two salvaged fluted columns that reminded him and his audience that he first practiced his art in the shadow of the Parthenon.

After the 81-year-old clarinetist died of a heart attack in 1945, his niece from Los Angeles, in town to settle his estate, made the mistake of telling a reporter she couldn't find the $1,500 her uncle had told her was stashed in the house. For months thereafter, the house was ransacked after dark by a perpetual stream of gold seekers.

Paul Dorpat's two-hour videotape on Seattle's early history, "Seattle Chronicle," is $29.95 from Tartu Publications, P.O. Box 85208, Seattle, WA 98145.