Excuse Me, Do You Have The Times?

October 20th, 2008 @ 12:51 am by Cliffe | Sorted Vintage Ads |
Today’s vintage ad comes from the 1918 Argus. The Seattle Times used the Times Building from 1915 until 1931 (when they moved into their current home in South Lake Union featured here). Architecture firm Bebb and Gould designed the terra-cotta beauty as Times circulation rocketed to around 70,000. The newspaper was bought in 1896 by Col.
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A.J. Blethen (see his house here) and his descendants still own a majority of the paper today.
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Times Printing Company of Seattle. Times Building, times Square. Joseph Blethen, President. C.B. Blethen, Editor-in-Chief. The Argus, 1918.

One Response to “Excuse Me, Do You Have The Times?”

  1. Shannon says:

    I love that building, I really do. Did you know that, like many prominent buildings around America during that era, they used to have a huge baseball diamond and scoreboard on the side of the building, and during playoffs, the townspeople would gather around to “watch” the game progress?

    http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/seattle/s12.htm

    I’ve been trying to find a photo of that, but have failed thus far! Maybe one simply doesn’t exist.

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