tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57287346071504678372024-03-14T02:33:46.077-07:00northwest then + againI've always been a fan of Paul Dorpat's "Now & Then" feature in the Seattle Times. I noticed a guy in the UK was making integrated cross-time images by matching Google's Street View with vintage photos, so I made some of my own. It's a handy way to time travel without leaving the house. I sometimes resort to taking the present day version myself when the street cam doesn't offer a good match.Clayton Kauzlarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17927179401748707980noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728734607150467837.post-46595841820628394762024-02-19T14:41:00.000-08:002024-02-19T14:41:53.120-08:00Seattle's Front Lawn<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzTHtRXilp7T55xI4yyD4xWercvVGtwnEFs4tIeZIBDLtAe9FOfUmW36gBOTGeCl4a7SVDocyI7NuiaMtwB5lP7E23lNpabpKel-RPrEobB3p1yEeVWh02YBriICMd1kAMwgnwGIPbV9VRm1OEQcl7lm9PaJAyFfRAoR7vGDOwFg01-TUdt43CBrFEb5w/s1400/1930s_KerryPark_AsahelCurtis-Elenga_FIN_sm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="617" data-original-width="1400" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzTHtRXilp7T55xI4yyD4xWercvVGtwnEFs4tIeZIBDLtAe9FOfUmW36gBOTGeCl4a7SVDocyI7NuiaMtwB5lP7E23lNpabpKel-RPrEobB3p1yEeVWh02YBriICMd1kAMwgnwGIPbV9VRm1OEQcl7lm9PaJAyFfRAoR7vGDOwFg01-TUdt43CBrFEb5w/w640-h282/1930s_KerryPark_AsahelCurtis-Elenga_FIN_sm.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I originally made this blended image for the Queen Anne
Historical Society a couple years ago. The older image is by prolific Seattle
photographer Asahel Curtis and dates to the early 1930s. The later image is
courtesy of a historical society trustee. The view is, of course, from Kerry
Park, one of the most well-known and beloved prospects in the city.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the 1920s the undeveloped lot was already a popular spot
for its panoramic view of downtown Seattle, Elliott Bay, and (on a good day)
Mount Rainier. When a developer proposed building an apartment in the late
1920s alarmed neighbors, including lumber baron Albert S. Kerry, took action.
Homeowners near the park collected between five and six thousand dollars to
purchase the land for a city park. Kerry and his wife Katherine put up the
remaining $20,000.<o:p></o:p></p>
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neighborhood volunteers at first. Starting in the 1930s the Seattle Parks
Department gradually added benches, a drinking fountain and, eventually, a
walkway connecting Kerry Park to Bayview-Kinnear Park below. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the late 1940s the city thought it might sell part of the
land. City engineer A.C. Van Soelen found that when the lot was bequeathed to
the city for the grand sum of one dollar it came with a clear stipulation: The
land could only be used as a public park. Van Soelen seemed put out, saying the
odd triangular lot was totally unsuitable for a park, and adding it “looks like
someone’s front lawn.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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and the little 1.5-acre location on Queen Anne still serves up its iconic view
today. When a TV show or film set in Seattle needs an image of the city, Kerry
Park often provides it. When the sitcom Fraser needed a backdrop for the title
character’s fictional apartment, the show used an image taken from this vantage
point. Ironic, given the park was built, in part, to prevent an apartment from
existing there in the first place. Most would agree that Kerry Park’s lasting
value has been tremendous for a “front lawn,” and a great return on that
dollar.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">CK</p><p></p>Clayton Kauzlarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17927179401748707980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728734607150467837.post-26182434654306453962023-07-31T14:41:00.001-07:002023-08-02T15:48:13.896-07:00The Times & The Square<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0iVl67uEc-Vv09ogMwFwura1wM2Uqfmn3-PYkAHkLa2IASMQdf2PN3iCDqnO15oqVOT_OiTGoYOUymT54YKfJqa1jGzJkzoIKwc2DConuKhseGk-hOAq0OxstJfRjpK5gIhce5uz0YqKnyxNNjWeYWZ7qxOGV_m-vcXn1rxBBtg2nXPcGQpD1wVYPBY8/s1168/1916_Apr_TimeSquareBldgConstruction_WEB.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1168" height="438" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0iVl67uEc-Vv09ogMwFwura1wM2Uqfmn3-PYkAHkLa2IASMQdf2PN3iCDqnO15oqVOT_OiTGoYOUymT54YKfJqa1jGzJkzoIKwc2DConuKhseGk-hOAq0OxstJfRjpK5gIhce5uz0YqKnyxNNjWeYWZ7qxOGV_m-vcXn1rxBBtg2nXPcGQpD1wVYPBY8/w640-h438/1916_Apr_TimeSquareBldgConstruction_WEB.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">The (Seattle) Times Square Building is a gorgeous five story flatiron at 414 Olive Way. The older portion of the image shows its construction in 1916. Blending that with the present day creates what seems like a cutaway view of the steel skeleton within. The building was the brainchild of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seattle_Times">Seattle Times</a> editor-in-chief <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alden_J._Blethen">Alden J. Blethen</a> (1845-1915) who wanted a landmark that would cement his newspaper's standing in the city. Blethen didn't live to see his vision become a reality but calling the adjacent plaza "Times Square," like the more famous version in New York would certainly have appealed to his sense of status.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">The building was designed by the Seattle architectural firm of Bebb & Gould. Charles Bebb (1862-1942) came to the U.S. from Britain in 1885. He joined the iconic Chicago firm of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adler_%26_Sullivan">Adler & Sullivan</a> in 1888 where he worked with a promising young draftsman named Frank Lloyd Wright on projects that helped pioneer the modern skyscraper. Bebb's engineering and fabrication skills brought him to Seattle and the Denny Clay Company in 1893. He gravitated back to architecture in 1898, opening his own company.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">But it was partnerships that brought Bebb his greatest success. He teamed up with designer Louis L. Mendel in 1901. Their work resulted in a long list of hotels, office buildings and industrial facilities throughout Seattle, including the Hoge Building at 705 2nd Avenue. Starting in 1914, Bebb's collaboration with artist/designer Carl Gould (1873-1939) produced some of Seattle's best known landmarks, including the plan for the <a href="https://www.washington.edu/">University of Washington</a> campus, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzzallo_Library">Suzzalo Library</a> and the original Seattle Art Museum (now the <a href="https://www.seattleartmuseum.org/visit/asian-art-museum">Seattle Asian Art Museum</a>). Gould himself founded the <a href="https://arch.be.uw.edu/">School of Architecture at the University of Washington</a>, serving as its first chair. The Times Square Building reflects Gould's education at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaux-Arts_de_Paris">Beaux-Arts de Paris</a>. Charles Bebb mostly handled the practical logistics but I can't help but think he had some influence on the building's terracotta ornamentation - another Adler & Sullivan hallmark. Construction was contracted to the A.W. Quist Company for a total of $225,985 (around 7 million in 2023 dollars).</div><div dir="ltr"><br />The Seattle Times was headquartered in the building until 1931. The namesake square on the 5th Avenue side frequently served as a place for public gatherings and political speeches. The space saw recruitment drives, bond rallies and a makeshift obelisk commemorating Seattle's casualties during World War II and protests during the war in Vietnam. Chunks of the "square" gave way to new construction over the years. The monorail track added in 1962 for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_21_Exposition">Century 21 Exposition</a> further reduced the connection between the square and the building. The Times Square Building itself still seems to be going strong, housing a mix of office and retail tenants.</div>Clayton Kauzlarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17927179401748707980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728734607150467837.post-52165889271100584562019-07-24T09:40:00.000-07:002019-07-24T09:40:02.977-07:00Charged Up<br />
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Electric cars are an increasingly common sight on the
streets of tech-heavy Seattle in 2019. But electric cars were, at least
proportionately, more popular over a century ago. In 1912, gasoline powered only
22% of the cars sold in the US. Electric
vehicles accounted for 38%. 40% of car owners opted for steam-driven conveyances.
Americans of the time would have been familiar with dozens of automakers, big
and small, most of which were history by the 1920s.<o:p></o:p></div>
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One brand that lasted longer than most was Studebaker. This
Asahel Curtis photograph shows a shiny new 1908 Studebaker Victoria Phaeton
electric. The photo was taken from the curbside by the Studebaker Brothers
dealership at 308 1<sup>st</sup> Avenue. The Seattle Times from April 15th
describes a Victoria Phaeton road test around the streets of Seattle. This picture
was probably taken to commemorate the event and I think it’s likely the man
behind the tiller is Marcus W. Kincaid, the dealership’s manager.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The goal was to see how many times the little electric could
make the round trip from downtown Seattle to the top of Queen Anne Hill. It was
a challenge many Seattleites could relate to. Not all roads were fully paved in
1908. The final regrade projects were still in the future so downtown had several
taller, steeper inclines than what we see today.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The article describes a circuitous route, starting at Pike
and 2<sup>nd</sup>, winding past Vine, 1<sup>st</sup>, Harrison and Queen Anne
Avenue, ending at 6<sup>th</sup> Avenue West and Lee Street, declaring that the
highest elevation. The car returned to the starting point using roughly the
same route and repeated the trip. The Studebaker managed the seven mile round trip
four times with enough charge left over “to run around town for some time
afterward,” proving that the cars were “quite suitable” for residents of Queen
Anne Hill, going on to state that “no one would have occasion to make more than
four round trips down town in a day.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anyone needing that unlikely fifth trip would have to take a
trolley like the one seen in the background of this photo -- or maybe one of
the 80,000 horses residing in Seattle at the time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />Clayton Kauzlarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17927179401748707980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728734607150467837.post-83838903646475990962019-07-09T14:25:00.000-07:002019-07-14T12:56:27.851-07:00Bricks of Contention<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">The first brick is laid at the corner of 2nd and Washington October 19th, 1912, but there was trouble ahead.</span></i></div>
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Seattle wasn’t above taking a patronizing tone with younger
towns and communities over the last century, sometimes actively exerting
influence over its smaller neighbors -- all in the interest of mutual
prosperity, of course.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A small headline in the Seattle Times in 1912 reads “Bremerton
To Have Its Streets Paved.” The short paragraph that follows describes Bremerton’s
mayor Paul Mehner and a large crowd gathered for the laying of the first brick
at the corner of 2<sup>nd</sup> and Washington. The project was to cover ten
blocks of the young city with a mix of bricks and asphalt for the price of
$60,000.00. This photo probably depicts that October 19<sup>th</sup> ceremony.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But the was story wasn’t so simple. The ongoing competition
between Seattle and Tacoma soon surfaced in the bricks lining Bremerton’s
streets. The bids received for the paving project were neatly typed up in the
city council minutes but the winner, J.S. Kenyon, was hastily added by hand
after the fact.<o:p></o:p></div>
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After some correspondence and a factory tour the Bremerton
city council clearly favored bricks from the Denny Renton & Coal Company in Seattle. Kenyon opted for a more affordable product from Standard Clay of Tacoma.
Property owners, including the estimable Sophia Bremer, argued in favor of the Denny Renton bricks. But Kenyon was adamant – and he had the backing of friends
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The debate only grew. An independent testing firm (from
Seattle, of course) confirmed that the Tacoma bricks were uneven in shape and below
the standard required by the contract. A lawsuit temporarily halted the paving
work, ironically on the street shown in this photo. The issue ping ponged back
and forth between the city council, lawyers and the contractor for over a year. The Seattle Times remarked that Bremerton’s plunge into “modern
municipal activities” had brought “little happiness to residents and taxpayers.”</div>
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<br />Clayton Kauzlarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17927179401748707980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728734607150467837.post-41387980374563249802018-07-23T17:57:00.000-07:002018-07-23T17:57:20.160-07:00Beauty For All<br />
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The Tourist & Trade pictorial section of the Seattle Sunday Times on July 12, 1936 featured a few of the city's noteworthy vistas in an article titled "Beauty For All To Share."<br />
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This shot looking north on Lake Washington Boulevard was an alternate to the one used, taken from the same spot a moment later. The caption read: "A glimpse of the nationally famed drive that follows the shore of the lake for several miles, with new vistas and beauties opening up at every turn."<br />
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It's nice to say that's still the case 82 years later though the I-90 Floating Bridge would be added to the shoreline seen through the trees just four years later.Clayton Kauzlarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17927179401748707980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728734607150467837.post-35180324036158452702018-07-14T11:33:00.001-07:002018-07-14T12:14:34.470-07:00A New/Old AYPE Poster<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is a "Then & Again" of a different stripe, though it still combines things from the past and the present.<br />
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I've always been fascinated by the Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition, the elaborate fair hosted on the grounds of the present-day UW campus in 1909. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska–Yukon–Pacific_Exposition" target="_blank">More info about the AYPE.</a><br />
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I've run across some nice printed ephemera over the years but I've always wanted a poster I could hang on the wall. A few promotional items come close but nothing was exactly what I wanted. So, I gathered some source images and assembled my own.<br />
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This was mostly done compositing source material in Photoshop with a lot of tweaking and rebalancing to get the texture and colors right. I did the typography but based it very closely on a ticket from 1909. The airship draws upon photo reference from the AYPE with a little hand retouching and color by me. That lead to making the sky much taller on the main aerial view. I also scaled up Mt. Rainier a bit and fixed numerous holes and stains on the original image.<br />
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<em><span style="font-size: x-small;">Some of the items I used to create the poster.</span></em></div>
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There are plenty of design ideas that would make this poster more dramatic and eye-popping, but those often draw from the last century of design and layout thinking. I was trying to stay faithful to how they might have designed it in that era. I think it mostly accomplishes that.<br />
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So, there you go -- A new/old AYP Exposition poster!<br />
<br />Clayton Kauzlarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17927179401748707980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728734607150467837.post-28163292521811213462018-04-12T10:16:00.002-07:002018-04-12T10:16:18.718-07:00Twitterpated!It only took half a decade, but I finally started posting my cross-time pics on their very own Twitter feed. <a href="https://twitter.com/NWThenAgain" target="_blank">Feel free pay a visit and follow us there!</a> It's actually not a bad way to look through our library of images. Expect the entire run of Then & Again to appear there over the next few days.<br />
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Clayton Kauzlarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17927179401748707980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728734607150467837.post-47348644875808322022018-03-20T13:56:00.002-07:002018-03-20T13:58:38.963-07:00Spanning The Years<div class="separator" data-block="true" data-editor="b987n" data-offset-key="60b24-0-0" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span data-offset-key="60b24-0-0"><span data-text="true">A recent eBay album purchase contained some great photos of Seattle in the early 1930s. The photographer was a woman from West Seattle who was not only a talented photographer, she was nice enough to date and annotate each picture carefully. Here we see the George Washington Memorial Bridge, better known as the Aurora Bridge around the time it opened in 1932 – Construction debris is still visible and the roadway beneath the bridge is still unpaved. Her note alongside the photo is still true today. “Standing under the bridge gave us a feeling of being in a great cathedral.” This shot was taken facing south just down the hill from the Fremont Troll.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Many Seattleites are familiar with the Great Seattle Fire of
1889, but other conflagrations have hit the city over the last century or so.
One of the biggest of these was the Belltown Fire on June 10, 1910. It started
near the waterfront and swept into downtown Seattle reaching 2<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">nd</span></sup> Avenue,
ultimately destroying six city blocks. Fortunately, the 40 mph winds calmed and Seattle’s signature rainfall subdued the blaze. This was a
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Alaskan Way) near the foot of Wall Street at the ruins of the Puget
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century (photo Lawton Gowey). The network of privately owned electric trolleys
carried passengers between communities from Everett to Tacoma between 1902 and 1928. The system eventually gave
way to highways and buses, but the Interurban name lives on in buildings, streets and business names (and a sculpture in Fremont). Speaking of which, the
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Here's another picture from my home town, but a lot people who grew up in the 70s and 80s will relate to this. A friend sent me a photo of the original marquee being removed at Bremerton's historic Roxy Theater yesterday. Coincidentally, I photographed the Art Deco movie house a few weeks ago, planning to make a composite of a crowd lined up to see Star Wars in 1977. If you grew up in Kitsap County back then, chances are you saw the original trilogy at the Roxy. In Panavision. AND color. A lot of us will always be sentimental about walking under those neon lights for our first visit to a galaxy far, far away.</div>
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It seemed like the Roxy's days as a movie palace were over years ago, but thanks to recent restoration efforts it reopened with a new marquee last month. <a href="http://farawayentertainment.com/location/the-historic-roxy-theatre/" target="_blank">And it's screening films once again!</a></div>
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A recent eBay find netted some terrific snapshots of Harry S. Truman's visit to Bremerton, Washington on June 6th of 1948. This was the visit where many believe Truman's famous catchphrase "Give 'em hell, Harry!" was first shouted by a man in the crowd gathered on Pacific Avenue below the Elks Club (the present-day Max Hale Center) . A couple other towns tell a similar story but Bremerton's claim is pretty strong, or at least no worse than competing versions.<br />
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The photos from before and during Truman's speech are easy to match with present-day Bremerton -- Many of the buildings, including the terraced rooftop outside the Elk's Club still exist. The photos of Truman and his traveling companions stopping shortly before arriving in Bremerton took a little more digging. At first glance, it's just a nondescript country road.<br />
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Newspaper stories during the presidential visit mention Truman leaving Olympia early that morning with his friend, Washington Governor Mon Walgren (no relation to the famous senator). One story in particular mentioned the group -- a car of staffers and a Cadillac convertible for the dignitaries -- taking Highway 3 through Shelton. A note on the back of the photo lists Bremerton's mayor L. "Hum" Kean among the group. Given the direction they were coming from and the need to add Bremerton's mayor to the group it seemed like they must have stopped somewhere just outside the city.</div>
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This ended up being correct. The house seen in the background is in the town of Gorst, just south of Bremerton where Highway 3 meets Highway 16. Not the first place that comes to mind for a presidential visit but the brickwork on the house's back porch is still clearly visible today, though it's just peeking through dense trees and bushes. Several shots in the series show Truman, Walgren and Hum Kean chatting and milling about while a few onlookers enjoy their brush with fame. The image of a US president just hanging out with a small handful of people on a country road is remarkable compared to the huge contingent who travel with presidents today.</div>
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I've been fortunate to hear from better informed experts on Seattle's past topology as I've posted these photo mash-ups over the last few years. That first batch especially had a few mistakes. Sometimes the image alignments were a little off -- Sometimes a lot. <a href="http://geologywriter.com/" target="_blank">David B. Williams</a> was nice enough to point out that the 1914 photo of the McNaught house was actually situated on the southeast corner of 6th and Marion, not the northeast as shown in my original composite. So, here's a do-over with the house where it should be. If anything, the elevation difference looks even more dramatic now. Thanks, David!<br />
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This image from around 7th and Jefferson gives a sense of what it might look to drive through Seattle on I-5 in 1887 or 1888, a year or two before Washington attained statehood. The dramatic growth of the city is remarkable when you compare wider shots that contrast a town of wood and brick with the glass, steel and cement of today. Of course the stage will be set for Seattle's next growth phase by Great Seattle Fire which cut a huge swath through many of the buildings to the left in 1889.</div>
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Clayton Kauzlarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17927179401748707980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728734607150467837.post-18317712556512664662016-03-09T09:55:00.000-08:002016-03-09T11:49:03.623-08:00Lighter Than Air<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here we see the majestic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Macon_(ZRS-5)" target="_blank">USS Macon</a> gliding above Seattle's Green Lake on August 22, 1934. The airship was traveling to its new station near San Francisco but took a leisurely route with time for a number of photo ops along the way. The Macon was a marvel of engineering and was designed to be a "flying aircraft carrier" with five small fighter planes. But even before the Hindenburg disaster in 1937 airships didn't have an encouraging safety record. The Macon's sister ship, the USS Akron, crashed off the coast of New Jersey the previous year with a loss of nearly all hands. The Macon too would be gone in February of 1935 when it crashed into the Pacific off the California coast near Monterey. Unlike the Akron disaster, all but two of its 76 crew members survived. The Macon's wreckage wasn't discovered until 1991 and the site is now a designated marine sanctuary.</div>
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Many of the residential houses from the era still stand today, though the area was clearly much more rural with some pastures and farms still evident. Both the baseball field and the Green Lake boathouse are present in the 1934 photo as well. The biggest change was certainly the addition of I-5 which eventually snaked through the fields in the central foreground.</div>
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<br />Clayton Kauzlarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17927179401748707980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728734607150467837.post-1448782523611996492015-06-19T10:06:00.000-07:002015-06-19T10:06:43.405-07:00Onward & Upward<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For many Seattle old timers, 1st Avenue was historically a patchwork of bars, second hand stores and some of the city's more colorful adult-oriented businesses. As Seattle made the transition from a blue collar town to an epicenter of technology many of these institutions and the buildings that contained them have given way to a more gentrified (some would say clinical) appearance. Here we see present-day 1st Avenue near Virginia Street contrasted with a 1968 view. It's interesting to note that the offices for web-based real estate giant Redfin are in a crisp new high rise where Al & Leon once sold furniture across a rambling array of storefronts.</div>
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Clayton Kauzlarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17927179401748707980noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728734607150467837.post-76242446036448427622015-03-02T11:24:00.001-08:002015-03-02T17:43:23.132-08:00Change From On High<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Another experiment contrasting aerial views from different times. This time combining an 1891 bird’s eye view of Seattle with a semi-polygonal version from present-day Google Earth. The 1891 image was rendered by lithographer E.S. Glover for the A.L. Bancroft company in California who specialized in text books and large aerial views of cities up and down the West Coast. These lithographs were somewhat idealized, both for clarity and aesthetic reasons – The perspective is fudg<span class="text_exposed_show">ed a lot to include both a street grid and the distant scenery. This makes lining up the horizon and landmarks a bit tricky but there is enough overlap using the waterfront and a few landmarks to get reasonably close. It's also possible to appreciate how successive decades of regrades removed a number of the rolling hills that once dominated the landscape of downtown Seattle.</span></div>
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Clayton Kauzlarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17927179401748707980noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728734607150467837.post-6227756392665871622015-01-24T18:55:00.001-08:002015-03-04T12:41:38.968-08:00Camp Harmony<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is a follow-up to the previous image of Japanese Americans boarding trains on the Seattle waterfront in 1942. I thought it would be interesting to mash up two aerial images this time. The results aren't perfect, but it gives a good sense of scale. 7390 residents lived in these hastily constructed barracks at the Puyallup Fairgrounds called Camp Harmony from May to September of 1942. The secti<span class="text_exposed_show">ons of the camp had simple letter designations. Area A is the block in the upper left of the photo. Area B is to the upper right near the present-day freeway. Area C is in the lower left. Area D was the most surreal of all, being situated in the middle of the race track and surrounded by grandstands, attractions and the roller coaster track. Most residents of Camp Harmony were transferred to the more permanent Minidoka and Tule Lake internment camps.</span></div>
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This site at 7th and Madison housed four different school buildings over a 75 year period, concluding with this impressive edifice. Seattle's Central School was opened in 1889 and was almost immediately overcrowded, forcing the district to rent annex space from a number of nearby churches. As the 20th century unfolded the school had the opposite problem as downtown residences were replaced with office buildings. After surviving social and economic shifts and several earthquakes, the school was demolished in 1953. The lot was leased for parking until the site gave way to the construction of Interstate 5 in the early 1960s.<br />
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Clayton Kauzlarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17927179401748707980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728734607150467837.post-21390734620226335212014-11-02T18:13:00.001-08:002014-11-03T10:28:56.142-08:00An Embarrassment of Riches<div style="text-align: justify;">
My work took me to Bordeaux, France last week, so I thought I'd have a little fun remixing images from that part of the world. Making cross-time composites seems easier in a town where buildings are routinely hundreds of years old. The city is so absolutely crammed with landmarks that show up in countless paintings and photographs it's hard to choose.<br />
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The two buildings to the far right are actually in this painting by Louis Burgade from 1835. This is a view from the then-busy quay of Chartrons; one of several key piers that comprised the heart of commercial shipping to and from Bordeaux. The building where I worked for most of last week is a couple hundred yards to the right.</div>
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Bordeaux has many great avenues filled with restaurants and shops. Here we have a postcard view of the intersection of Cours Victor Hugo and Rue Sainte-Catherine from 1905 featuring a "Federal and Presidential" festival. The street hasn't changed much. Lining up buildings is incredibly easy when relatively little changes for hundreds of years.</div>
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The occupation of France was a painful chapter and Bordeaux was no exception. Here, Wehrmacht troops parade with a marching band at Place de la Comedie in 1942.</div>
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Clayton Kauzlarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17927179401748707980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728734607150467837.post-3106668744297872822014-10-20T10:08:00.001-07:002014-10-20T10:09:10.211-07:00City of Destiny<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I had a request for cross-time images set in Tacoma. Fortunately, the "City of Destiny" has preserved a wealth of beautiful old buildings, which makes aligning past and present images much easier. Here's a view looking roughly southeast, shot by Tacoma photographer Paul Richards in 1910. Richards' shot looks across the Puyallup and Foss Waterways to the industrial heart of New Tacoma with "Mount Tacoma," as many called Rainier at the time, looming in the distance. Tacoma's old City Hall can still be seen near the foot of South Stadium Way, along with the pointy-topped dome of the Northern Pacific Building. The view from the roadway is only visible during the Fall and Winter these days -- a wall of white maple trees have put the intervening 100+ years to good use.<br />
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Clayton Kauzlarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17927179401748707980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728734607150467837.post-27657921820270565902014-10-18T15:36:00.002-07:002014-10-18T15:36:55.680-07:00Kitsap War Years<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The postcard image was listed as a "1930s" street scene from Bremerton, but the movie marquee at the Tower Theater tells a different story. "What A Woman" starring Rosalind Russell premiered in 1943 so the scene dates to the heyday of my hometown -- The war years when the intense level of activity at the ship yard swelled Bremerton's population to 80,000. It's never matched that number again, but that's just as well. Many images from the time show shipyard workers living in hastily built shacks as the town struggled to house its mushrooming workforce.</div>
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The Tower Theater at 522 4th Street was one of a good half dozen movie theaters in downtown Bremerton. Those that weren't irreparably damaged by the quake of 1949 (like the Rialto) fell victim to the shifting economics of the region and were mostly gone by the 1960s.</div>
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vessels ever matched it for look and style. After its completion at the
Kirkland Shipyards, Kalakala began service between Seattle and Bremerton in
1935. It was an immediate sensation and for a time was the second-most
photographed object in America (after the Statue of Liberty). It sailed the
Bremerton-Seattle run and other duties well into the 1960’s. Most Seattleites know
the story of the vessel languishing on a beach in Kodiak, Alaska as part of seafood
processing operation and its eventual “rescue” in 1998. Sadly, the once-revolutionary
ferry had trouble finding a permanent home or enough backing for a restoration. The ferry ended up rusting away on Tacoma’s Hylebos Waterway and was scrapped a few years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Colman ferry dock itself has
been rebuilt quite a few times due to fire, catastrophic ship collisions and
the usual march of progress. In this image both terminal buildings are slated
for destruction. The current building will be replaced as part of Seattle’s
ambitious waterfront project as a spiffy multimodal transit hub planned for
completion around 2021. Behind Kalakala the previous Art Deco style terminal building
is, like the ferry, also a relic of the 30s. Both would be history by the end of the 1960’s.</span></div>
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time for the streamlined ferry. Here we see its stainless steel exterior
gleaming in the sun in a photo taken by Frank Shaw in the late 1950s or early
1960s. Behind, we can see how the Seattle skyline has mushroomed in the last 50
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