I came across this photo while researching Queen Anne High School being converted into condos last year.
It’s a sea of screaming students cheering on their fellow Queen Anne High School Grizzly football team in 1939.
Note th at
the students closest to the camera are the most animated. Were they playing it up for the camera? Is that an apple the bottom left girl is biting into
? Two people over, is that a purse or a cowbell
? I’m going with cowbell. Anything else of note that I’m missing?
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| Queen Anne High School students at football game, Seattle, 1939. Staff Photographer Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection PI25680 |
Any idea where the pic was taken? It’s not Memorial Stadium, at least not in its current form (Mem Stad doesn’t have a grandstand in the end zone like that…)
I don’t know where it was taken — I was wondering this myself.
Cliffe
Most likely that’s the old Civic Field
http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~archives/photos/10/400/10680.gif
Civic Field is what was torn down to create Memorial Stadium
http://content.lib.washington.edu/cgi-bin/viewer.exe?CISOROOT=/imlsmohai&CISOPTR=1613
Cool pic, Alan. I didn’t know there was pretty much a full street grid in the area to start out with.
Thanks Ben,
If you’d like to see a brief glimpse of those streets on film, right before they started building the Century 21 Fairgrounds, go here
http://www.seattlechannel.org/HistoryInMotion/
and look for the video entitled “New York to Seattle Cross Country Race 1909/1959″
It’s about a recreation of the 1909 trancontinental auto race that ended at the A-Y-P. In 1959, the finish line was in front of the Civic Center, which you can just see in the bottom left of the picture I linked to.
At about 18 minutes into the film, you can see a parade and the winning Ford car go right up that street. Look for the armory (now the Center House) in the background.
It’s one of the last views I’ve seen of Seattle Center on the street grid.
Hey Ben, congrats on the Crosscut article btw. I felt like I knew a star.
Cliffe