High school graduates remember Redmond before Microsoft

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Carlson, 99, grew up in what was then a rugged timber and fishing outpost with little more than a butcher, a hotel and a few bars. Her four-mile daily walk to then-Avondale Elementary was via a muddy, unpaved Northeast 116th Street.