Good old days


Here are a couple of sites devoted to photographs of old-time Seattle: PaulDorpat.com and VintageSeattle.org.

Paul Dorpat has for many years written the "Seattle Now and Then" page in the Sunday magazine supplement of the Seattle Times. His web site offers archives of those columns, and lots of new old stuff.

VintageSeattle.org mostly just shows high resolution photos of bygone days in Seattle. For example, check out this entry, Seattle By Air, 1979. I point that one out because that's pretty much what Seattle looked like when moved here two years later -- the Seafirst Building (now the 1001 Fourth Avenue Building) was, at 40 stories, the tallest building in town, and there were few other tall buildings. They used to call the Seafirst Building, a glass and steel rectangular cube, "the box the Space Needle came in." I haven't heard THAT one for a long time.

Posted: Mon - June 15, 2009 at 03:08 PM          
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