February 23rd, 2008 @ 12:38 am by Cliffe | Sorted Past Post
Now here’s something you don’t see often — a postcard showing the rag-tag building that was
demolished to make way for one of Seattle’s first and most well known skyscrapers. I’m guessing the Benaroya Company was not planning on issuing a
Ballard Denny’s postcard. Just a guess. The vintage postcard comes from 1918. You can
compare the modern day satellite image with the postcard and find a few surrounding buildings still standing. Click on the images to see full-res.
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Front: Corner one-story building with bill boards on roof marking the site which the 42 Story L.C. Smith Building was erected upon.
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Back: Postcard sent July, 1918.
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February 23rd, 2008 @ 7:56 am
There’s OWL advertising on the side of a building in downtown Port Townsend, WA too. Must have been a chain?
February 24th, 2008 @ 9:02 pm
I love this one. You just do not see owl in coke in the same place often.
February 25th, 2008 @ 9:18 am
At first I thought it might be Owl Drug, or White Owl Cigars, but then I found this, about the Owl Cigar Co.: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60E1FF8395F10738DDDAE0894DE405B8085F0D3