It’s finally election day. Wow. After voting, I’ll definitely be glued to the television and Internet watching the coverage. Don’t forget to vote! To mark the occasion, check out this entry from an old 1904 Alaska Club Album showing the room Roosevelt stayed in at the Washington Hotel. See my previous posts on the hotel here and here. Also click here to see what they mean by the “highest point of ground in the downtown district” just before it was washed into the bay. See you at the polls!

Parlor of President Roosevelt’s Suite of Rooms at the Washington, Seattle, May 23rd and 24th, 1903. The Washington is the most talked of and popular high-type tourist and Commercial Hotel in the West. Standing on the highest point of ground in the downtown district of Seattle, the scenery from all sides of the Hotel is the most superb to be found anywhere in the West. The interior arrangement of the Hotel, the service and the cuisine are unquestionably as nearly perfect as it is possible to have. Alaska Club Album, 1904.