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| 1 | Pondering Seattle's first urban canyon | Home and Garden |
| The Alaska Building at Cherry Street was first in 1904. The Empire Building went up at the southeast corner of Madison Street only a few days behind the construction schedule of the Savoy. (In the late 1970s the Empire was the first of Seattle's skyscrapers to be spectacularly razed by implosion. | ||
| 1/1/2011 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 2 | In Seattle: Let there be City Light | Home and Garden |
| ON SEPT. 16, 1935, Seattle City Light moved into this, its new building at Third Avenue and Madison Street — or Spring Street, since it stretched the entire block. The agency's 1935 annual report claimed that it was "the most modern building in Seattle. | ||
| 1/8/2011 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 3 | A look at Seattle's thoroughly modern business district — in 1931 | Home and Garden |
| A LIKELY year for this look into Seattle's central business district is the year, or even month, the photographer's "platform" — Harborview Medical Center — was dedicated. That was in February 1931. After the grotesque old King County Courthouse nearby was razed on Jan. | ||
| 1/15/2011 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 4 | Before Harborview was born in Seattle | Home and Garden |
| LAST SUNDAY'S "now-and-then" looked northwest from the roof of the new Harborview Hospital into the retail section of the business district. That photo was recorded near the time the hospital was dedicated in February 1931. Now we look back at Harborview when it was still under construction. | ||
| 1/22/2011 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 5 | Downtown Seattle and points north; then and now | Home and Garden |
| THIS WEEK we continue comparing early views from the Smith Tower with those Jean Sherrard captured on a recent visit to the tower's observation platform. This is a look north over much of the business district to Lake Union. | ||
| 1/29/2011 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 6 | A look at Seattle's new Cobb Building | Home and Garden |
| HOW MANY readers can name the make, model and year of the motorcar at the lower-left corner of this look down Fourth Avenue and through its intersection with University Street? I cannot, though I think it resembles a 1909 Pierce-Arrow. | ||
| 2/5/2011 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 7 | A view of Seattle's first commercial center | Home and Garden |
| SEATTLE'S FIRST commercial center was built on a small peninsula south of Yesler Way, which the exploring Navy Lt. Wilkes called Piner's Point in 1841, a decade before the first settlers arrived. The commercial buildings, upper-right, are on Piner's Point. | ||
| 2/12/2011 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 8 | Seattle good will keeps on flowing with fountain | Home and Garden |
| CERTAINLY, MANY Pacific Northwest readers recall the construction in the mid-1970s of Waterfront Park and to the north of it the municipal aquarium. To help us remember, Frank Shaw photographed the entire process with his prized Hasselblad camera. | ||
| 2/19/2011 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 9 | Seattle's St. James reaches for the heavens | Home and Garden |
| CALL IT public relations or the spiritual urge to reach for the heavens, the Roman Catholic Church has had a knack for putting its parish footprints on tops of hills. St. James Cathedral is Seattle's best example of a landmark sanctuary. | ||
| 2/26/2011 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 10 | Wallingford fisticuffs in 1952 | Home and Garden |
| I FIRST SAW this snapshot of high-school fisticuffs years ago. The venerable North End journalist Stan Stapp shared it with me for possible use in The Seattle Times or an exhibit. | ||
| 3/5/2011 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 11 | Seattle trolleys headed to Lake Washington | Home and Garden |
| THE CITY'S Great Fire of 1889 ignited a new boomtown energy as businesses took out loans to begin the great labor of rebuilding more than 30 city blocks. The technology for running electric trolleys came to Seattle only months before the fire. | ||
| 3/12/2011 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 12 | Signs of the Times in early Seattle | Home and Garden |
| ASIDE FROM the pyramid tower that originally topped the Pioneer Building (far right, it was pioneer Henry Yesler's last contribution to Pioneer Place or Square), everything has survived between this "then" and this "now." (As a precaution, the tower was removed after the city's 1949 earthquake.) | ||
| 3/19/2011 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 13 | Old map links Seattle past and present | Home and Garden |
| FIFTEEN YEARS ago or so I was invited to give a lecture at a rod-and-gun club on Whidbey Island. Because I always liked to fish, I was at least half in sympathy with the club's program and so agreed to attend. It also helped that the manager was a relative. | ||
| 4/9/2011 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 14 | Seeing Seattle grow sky high | Home and Garden |
| JUDGING MERELY from the paucity of pictures taken from it, few photographers have struggled to climb the Great Northern Depot's tower for this unique look north into the city's central business district. | ||
| 4/23/2011 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 15 | Seattle's third City Hall a flatiron affair | Home and Garden |
| IN MY OLDEST memory of this flatiron building the stone is a soiled black and the inside is stuffed with automobiles. As I remember it they seemed to have all been made in Detroit or near it. The pie-shaped place was well ventilated, for many of the windows were broken. | ||
| 4/30/2011 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 16 | Seattle's Third Avenue, looking north, in 1903 | Home and Garden |
| Judging from the negative's fledgling status and the structures we will give this subject a circa 1903 date. That's the year that the Denny Hotel, on top of Denny Hill, opened in the spring for its first guest, President Theodore Roosevelt. | ||
| 5/7/2011 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 17 | Seattle was a city of robust wealth in 1881 | Home and Garden |
| THESE TWO BLOCKS on Front Street (First Avenue) between Columbia Street and Mill (Yesler Way) were Seattle's first affluent avenue of distinguished structures. The view looks south on Front through its intersection with Columbia. | ||
| 5/14/2011 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 18 | The day a Seattle streetcar went to the grocery store | Home and Garden |
| MOTORMAN D.E. STILES, conductor P.J. Donnelly and about 20 passengers were outbound on a Madison Street trolley on the Friday afternoon of Jan. 9, 1920, when it jumped its slippery tracks while "dropping" about 40 feet through the steep block between 18th and 19th avenues. | ||
| 5/21/2011 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 19 | Seattle's victorious Victorian | Home and Garden |
| They named their addition after Walla Walla. At the southeast corner of Columbia Street and 21st Avenue, their home was conveniently only five short blocks from streetcar service to Pioneer Square, or a mile and half walk to the same destination. | ||
| 5/28/2011 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 20 | Seattle's pampered and polished Space Needle | Home and Garden |
| Often we hear that it is "icon this and icon that." There is presently an icon hysteria. We, however, will avoid calling the Space Needle such, although for a devoted Seattle it quickly became our steel-and-concrete analogy for an Eastern Orthodox Madonna painted on wood. | ||
| 6/4/2011 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||