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    1. Re: Don McCune Library>Capt. Puget>New Search Engine
    2. George Lowe
    3. I followed this lead a ways and came up with the following site: http://callihan.netgate.net/seattle/past.htm If you are a native of the Seattle/Tacoma or Tacoma /Seattle area of the 50's vintage you'll love this site. George Lowe Diane Hettrick wrote: > Hello Puget Sound searchers, > > Virtue is its own reward <she said smugly> > I went looking for Capt. Puget - for whom I have fond memories - and found him. > The web site for the Don McCune Library is below and I copied part of the > section about his Capt. Puget persona. > > However, what I found in the process was an AWESOME search engine. > Listen up! > For obscure searches like dead local celebrities, I have been using a big > search engine called dogpile - it takes a long time to load but it searches 12 > search engines at one time and has access to about 6 more. I nearly always > find what I want. So I typed in www.dogpile.org/ and sat back to wait. > Whoosh! Instant load and I'm looking at something called 37.com with a simple > screen and a place to type in your keywords. Typed in "don mccune" - hit > search - and whoosh! instant load and first choice is the Don McCune library. > > 37.com searches 37 search engines - every one I have ever heard of and a few I > haven't. I am breathless. > http://37.com/ > > Ok - have to go now and look for obscure dead ancestors on 37.com > > Diane > Shoreline > Mailto:dhettrick@earthlink.net > > http://web3.foxinternet.net/donmccune/ > http://web3.foxinternet.net/donmccune/History.htm > > Captain Puget ~ 1957-1966 > > In 1957, KOMO-TV in Seattle asked Don to be > Captain Puget, the skipper of the 'Windward > Four', taking northwest children on television > voyages around Puget Sound and singing sea > chanteys. For nearly ten years this daily live > broadcast sailed the northwest airwaves. Don > was fondly known as Captain Puget for the rest of his life.

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