Seattle’s First Hill rises to the east of Pioneer Square. It has been, in successive years since 1852, forest, timber for Henry Yesler’s sawmill, hill of mansions and high society, Profanity Hill, and Pill Hill – a cluster of hospitals.
Bass was born in Philadelphia on September 16, 1935 to Max Bass and Bernice Bertha Palat Bass, and grew up with his younger brother, Howard Bass