The more Charlette writes, the less credible the story appears. Did the campaign surrogates or WH spokespersons ever offer any acknowledgement of the their man spending his infancy in Seattle?
According to Charlette’s article, she rented the place from August ‘61- June ‘62
Charlette states, in this article dated September 2016:
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Where POTUS Obama filled his first briefs. Obama’s first Seattle residence at 516 13th Ave. N (now a vacant lot) between Mercer and Republican on Capitol Hill. (Washington State Archives, 1961)
http://blog.seattlepi.com/capitolhill/2016/09/16/obama-lived-in-seattle-his-first-year/
The address of that house was actually Number 516, 13th Avenue E. Captitol Hill Seattle. It was NOT a vacant lot, the property was demolished some time after 1975 and replaced by what is now an apartment block called THE EDGE.
What is of passing interest however, is that the Salvation Army apparently owned the building, a residential home, on the corner of 13th Avenue E and Republican. We have not been able to establish just when the Salvation Army bought/sold the property. That has also recently been replaced by an apartment block.
Charlette, as a Seattle resident, plays pretty lose with her ‘facts’.
No, there has been no official recognition of the Seattle period. NOT. A. WORD.
It wasn’t mentioned in Dreams.