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| 1 | End of the line at Golden Gardens, ca. 1908 | Home and Garden |
| OLIVE AND Harry Treat arrived in Seattle in 1904 with their two daughters, Priscilla and Loyal. Rumored to be the richest couple in town, they promptly built the mansion that famously survives on Queen Anne Hill’s Highland Drive. | ||
| 8/22/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 2 | Sailing to shore on Salmon Bay, ca. 1887 | Home and Garden |
| THIS PICTURESQUE pioneer snapshot was copied from a family album filled with prints, interpreted with terse captions handwritten on their borders. It reads simply “Salmon Bay, 1887,” a date used on several other photos in the album. | ||
| 8/8/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 3 | Denny Way and First Avenue North, ca. 1913 | Home and Garden |
| WHILE SEATTLE was building long piers with landmark towers on the central waterfront and first staging Golden Potlatches, the weeklong summer festivals that began in 1911, a now-nameless photographer produced a collection of negatives celebrating schooners, steamers and Potlatch parade floats. | ||
| 8/15/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 4 | In Fremont, a trolley barn becomes a chocolate factory | Home and Garden |
| THE NEGATIVE for this scene of industrial clutter is marked “Fremont Barn N.E. Corner, Dec. 11, 1936.” “Barn” is short for “trolley car barn,” that brick structure that fills the horizon from North 35th Street on the right to the house on the left. | ||
| 8/1/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 5 | The dark day of mob rule and lynching as sport in Seattle | Home and Garden |
| IF YOU WRITE a history of Seattle, then you must include the story of the three bodies hanging here between two of Henry and Sara Yesler’s maples on the afternoon of Jan. 18, 1882. | ||
| 7/18/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 6 | When the circus came to town, ca. 1910 | Home and Garden |
| AFTER CALLS for help and hours of research, this subject still puzzles me. The prospect is easy enough to describe, but not the subject: seven women sitting on handsome horses balanced on those odd pedestals. Who are they — the women and the horses? | ||
| 7/25/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 7 | The road to West Seattle, 1916 | Home and Garden |
| In 1904, the settled area in the cove was named Youngstown after William Pigott and a local judge established the Seattle Steel plant there. At the far right in the “Now” photo, you can catch a glimpse of the plant (now Nucor) and that neighborhood. | ||
| 6/27/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 8 | In West Seattle: A family home crafted for a crowd | Home and Garden |
| THIS GRAND three-floor West Seattle lodge-size home with a rustic porch and veranda looks west from about 350 feet above Puget Sound and six irregular blocks west of the highest point in Seattle. | ||
| 6/13/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 9 | When the Great Depression hit, county’s citizens rallied | Home and Garden |
| THE LONGEST pile in this Columbia City wood yard extended about 430 feet, stretching east of 32nd Avenue South along the south side of Alaska Street. The photograph’s caption dates it Sept. 26, 1934. We may say that this wood was paid for by the charisma of the president. | ||
| 7/4/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 10 | An old home was taken for the cleaners in 1962 | Home and Garden |
| THE ORIGINAL print of this “real photo postcard” is bordered with the scribbled message “Remember me to any old classmates you happen to see.” The postcard shows another message that is most helpful, though it mildly mutilates the postcard’s face. | ||
| 7/11/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 11 | The Corner Market Building, then and now | Home and Garden |
| COMPLETED IN 1912, five years after the Pike Place Market opened, the Corner Market Building is set like a keystone at the head of its landmark block bordered by First Avenue, Pike Street and Pike Place. | ||
| 5/30/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 12 | A dam mess in Fremont, 1914 | Home and Garden |
| TWO SENSATIONAL photographs appear on the front page of the Friday, March 13, 1914, issue of The Seattle Times. One is of the deadly Missouri Athletic Club fire in St. Louis. The other, from Portland, shows a “flame-wrapped” schooner drifting along the docks on the Willamette River. | ||
| 6/6/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 13 | The scene in Kinnear Park, 1900 | Home and Garden |
| ON CHRISTMAS Day 1894, a landslide dropped a 150-foot swath off the bluff between the lower and upper parts of Kinnear Park into Elliott Bay. Seattle’s third park sits on the southwest brow of Queen Anne Hill. | ||
| 6/20/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 14 | A humble home for a big Seattle dreamer, ca. 1889 | Home and Garden |
| One of the five men posing beside The Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s office may well be Leigh Hunt, who with his wife, Lizzie, was the owner of both the newspaper and the house. | ||
| 5/9/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 15 | Seattle span with an expansive view, ca. 1959 | Home and Garden |
| IN THE SEATTLE Times classifieds of Feb. 7, 1958, the state highway department sought “men wanted . . . to do design work in connection with the Seattle Freeway . . . First project is the Lake Washington Ship Canal Bridge. | ||
| 5/16/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 16 | A place to stay still stands at Pike and Boren | Home and Garden |
| WHAT ARE now the Villa Apartments were first built at the busy intersection of Boren Avenue and Pike Street in 1909 for the then-principal tenant, the Hotel Reynolds. That year, a Seattle Times classified promised, “Everything new and up-to-date in every respect. | ||
| 5/23/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 17 | Seattle: From tall trees to tall towers, ca. 1909 | Home and Garden |
| THE LOMBARDY poplars that once lined much of Madison Street from Fourth Avenue to Broadway made First Hill’s favorite arterial “the most attractive place in town. | ||
| 3/28/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 18 | Seek and you shall find old Seattle among the towers | Home and Garden |
| HERE IS an opportunity for readers to enjoy our deeply human urge to play hide and seek. What is made of bricks and tiles in the “then” panorama may still be discovered beside or behind the grand expanse of glass rising so high in the “now. | ||
| 4/4/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 19 | The Littlefield Apartments are a Capitol Hill landmark | Home and Garden |
| THE LITTLEFIELD Apartments, a Capitol Hill neighborhood landmark at the corner of 19th Avenue East and East John Street, was described as 58 years old in a Seattle Times story about its 1968 sale to Arthur Kneifel. For his $120,000, Kneifel got a classic brick apartment house with 28 units. | ||
| 4/11/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 20 | Seattle brick box on Fifth Avenue has a colorful past | Home and Garden |
| STANDING ALONE on a Denny Regrade lot, a 30-by-109-foot brick shoebox sits at 1921 Fifth Avenue. In the 1880s a pioneer-wagon road leading to Queen Anne Hill passed by here. | ||
| 4/18/2014 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||