Past Post: Old Growth
March 2nd, 2008 @ 1:23 am by Cliffe | Sorted Past Post
Regular Vintage Seattle reader Richard P. Hill sends in this vintage postcard featuring the “old growth” he alluded to here. Now that’s some big lumber. I’m still moving, so I posted this from the past (Thursday). I’m dying to know — what happens in the future? Let me know in the comments. Thanks for sending this in, Richard.
This is the kind of wood that old Seattle houses were made of, and now sadly no longer exists. It wasn’t that long ago. Not sure when this is from, probably 50’s -60’s? Check out the sharp dressed man.
– Richard P. Hill
– Richard P. Hill
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| Front: Old Growth. Postcard courtesy Richard P. Hill. |
March 2nd, 2008 @ 11:24 am
Well, it may be “sadly” that it no longer exists, but I live gladly in one of the houses it built so I don’t feel too bad we can’t all live out in an old growth forest under the dripping trees gathering acorns in the muck.
March 3rd, 2008 @ 8:52 am
That certainly is one gigantic fella! I was reffering to the log.
March 5th, 2008 @ 6:08 pm
A beautiful house on 19th ave in the CD was restored a few years ago. When they jacked it up to replace the foundation I was amazed.
The original foundation was four cedar stumps that held up four cedar logs that were notched and joined to form the frame. They were then leveled and the house built up from there.
These trees had been cleared from the lot where the house was built. I would guess it had been that way for close to a hundred years.
That kind of tells you how our forest heritage was viewed. They were trees in the way of progress