Pat and me in Roche Harbor, 2004
Of all the voices that have crossed the radio airwaves in Seattle the past half-century, none may be so immediately identifiable to so many people, even today, as Pat O’Day’s.
A half-century, as it happens, is the appropriate time frame to consider O’Day’s place in Seattle radio lore, as he celebrates this week the 50th anniversary of his first day on the air in this market.