Past Post: Seattle, Glamour City Of Wa.
February 13th, 2008 @ 1:12 am by Cliffe | Sorted Past Post
Vintage Seattle reader Deran Ludd wrote in with this super cool Art Deco postcard of, as he puts it, “a more mythic Seattle.” A big thanks to all of you who have been sending in your favorite old-school Seattle content. Keep it coming! Deran writes:
This is a non-photo card of Seattle that evokes a lot to me. It is in sort of a WPA/American Regionalist/NeoExpressionist sort of style. This one with the Smith tower at the center is my all time favorite mythic Seattle.
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| Front: Art Deco Seattle postcard. Postcard courtesy Deran Ludd. |
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| Back: Seattle, Glamour City of Washington. East meets West, Far North and Orient in metropolitan Seattle, U.S. gateway to Alaska and the empires of the Pacific. Postcard courtesy Deran Ludd. |
February 13th, 2008 @ 8:29 am
Absolutely, one of the coolest images to appear yet on Vintage Seattle. Any idea of the card’s
vintage? I love the Ballard Locks blended into Pioneer Square.
February 13th, 2008 @ 9:21 am
That card is just strikingly beautiful! I love it!
February 13th, 2008 @ 10:06 am
This is one of the better images yet seen on your blog. Interesting to note how God, with his infinite rays of light, is trying to hide behind the Smith Tower.
February 13th, 2008 @ 7:48 pm
A gorgeous postcard. Cliffe: Any other deco pc’s in your collection and/or posted here at Vintage Seattle?
February 14th, 2008 @ 11:29 am
FYI, I’ve seen 5×7 reprints of this card at Annie’s Affordable Art & Frame in Ballard.
February 14th, 2008 @ 5:29 pm
Ya, Allison, I’ve got a cool one of the Olympic Hotel in a similar style (but b&w). Gonna post it soon.
Cliffe
February 15th, 2008 @ 1:51 pm
It is a super cool card. As far as I’m able to find out it is from the late 1930s, very early-pre war, 1940s.
I picked it up years ago at the fable Fairlook Antiques that Cliffe has spoken of. It gives Seattle that glamorous deco look we’ve always deserved, but never quite pulled off!
It’s part of a series of post cards that the Northern Pacific, the rail company that was based out of Union Station? I believe there are similarly glamorous cards of the other main cities on their routes? I’ve got a couple other pre-war postcards of local businesses taht had a deco look. I’ll dig them out at some point and send some to you Cliffe.
February 15th, 2008 @ 2:50 pm
Cliffe - this is on eof the coolest things I have seen! I will have some stuff for you soon:)
February 15th, 2008 @ 2:56 pm
Hey Courtney, I agree — I love the card. But thank Deran for sending it in. Let’s hope he’s got some more aces up his sleeves.
Cliffe