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Eccentric Seattle: Roy Olmsted, Bootleg Czar
Eccentric Seattle: Roy Olmsted, Bootleg Czar
11/5/2004
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Be introduced to dapper cop turned "King of the Rumrunners" and toast of Prohibition era Seattle, Roy Olmsted.
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