Comments on: Root, Root, Root For The Home Team http://www.vintageseattle.org/2008/07/14/root-root-root-for-the-home-team/ Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:14:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Cliffe http://www.vintageseattle.org/2008/07/14/root-root-root-for-the-home-team/#comment-15673 Cliffe Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:17:31 +0000 http://www.vintageseattle.org/?p=1573#comment-15673 Hey Ben, congrats on the Crosscut article btw. I felt like I knew a star. Cliffe Hey Ben, congrats on the Crosscut article btw. I felt like I knew a star.

Cliffe

]]> By: Alan Stein http://www.vintageseattle.org/2008/07/14/root-root-root-for-the-home-team/#comment-15598 Alan Stein Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:33:12 +0000 http://www.vintageseattle.org/?p=1573#comment-15598 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. 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.

]]> By: Ben Lukoff http://www.vintageseattle.org/2008/07/14/root-root-root-for-the-home-team/#comment-15568 Ben Lukoff Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:20:13 +0000 http://www.vintageseattle.org/?p=1573#comment-15568 Cool pic, Alan. I didn't know there was pretty much a full street grid in the area to start out with. Cool pic, Alan. I didn’t know there was pretty much a full street grid in the area to start out with.

]]> By: Alan Stein http://www.vintageseattle.org/2008/07/14/root-root-root-for-the-home-team/#comment-15564 Alan Stein Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:48:41 +0000 http://www.vintageseattle.org/?p=1573#comment-15564 Civic Field is what was torn down to create Memorial Stadium http://content.lib.washington.edu/cgi-bin/viewer.exe?CISOROOT=/imlsmohai&CISOPTR=1613 Civic Field is what was torn down to create Memorial Stadium

http://content.lib.washington.edu/cgi-bin/viewer.exe?CISOROOT=/imlsmohai&CISOPTR=1613

]]> By: Alan Stein http://www.vintageseattle.org/2008/07/14/root-root-root-for-the-home-team/#comment-15563 Alan Stein Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:44:00 +0000 http://www.vintageseattle.org/?p=1573#comment-15563 Most likely that's the old Civic Field http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~archives/photos/10/400/10680.gif Most likely that’s the old Civic Field

http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~archives/photos/10/400/10680.gif

]]> By: Cliffe http://www.vintageseattle.org/2008/07/14/root-root-root-for-the-home-team/#comment-15548 Cliffe Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:19:39 +0000 http://www.vintageseattle.org/?p=1573#comment-15548 I don't know where it was taken -- I was wondering this myself. Cliffe I don’t know where it was taken — I was wondering this myself.

Cliffe

]]> By: Seth http://www.vintageseattle.org/2008/07/14/root-root-root-for-the-home-team/#comment-15547 Seth Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:02:21 +0000 http://www.vintageseattle.org/?p=1573#comment-15547 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...) 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…)

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