Latest / Sal on SR 167 Southbound: Renton to Tacoma
Central Avenue — Hops, Then Lettuce
Sal: Between Willis Street and Central Avenue. Sal: Here the freeway crosses the Green River at downtown Kent and passes the accesso ShoWare Center arena and the Maleng Regional Justice Center. Sal: Kent began as White River, then Titusville, after an early settler named James Henry Titus. In the late 1870s the town discovered hops. In 1889 the Northern Pacific asked Ezra Meeker to name its station, and he suggested Kent, after the major hop-growing county of England, because this was the "hop capital of the West." Hop aphids ended the valley's hop boom soon after, in 1892. Sal: During and…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.