I’m still reporting from Pennsylvania, but should be back in Seattle later tonight.
So we’re going to enjoy a light-hearted take on the Past Postcard series.
This time it’s Seattle Now And Then, Now being Then!
It compares the Seattle waterfront sometime in the 1940′s (above) with 1874 (below). I guess “now” won’t be “now” forever. Click on an im
age for a larger view. Enjoy.
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Front: 321 Metropolitan Seattle, Washington as it is today (above). Seattle in 1874 (below).
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Back: Postally unused. Still just one cent.
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Apparently the mountain didn’t appear until later.
That mountain is SO post-1874!
Cliffe
My great-grandfather helped build the mountain in the 1890′s.