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| Photo shows construction of the Seattle Freeway, now Interstate 5. 1962. Photo courtesy Washington State Digital Archives. |
Building I-5 1962
March 30th, 2009 @ 1:14 am by Cliffe | Sorted Photo Exposure |
I can see my house from here, again. Well, my old apartment on Capitol Hill anway. This supersized 1.8mb photo from 1962 shows portions of Th’ Hill while Interstate 5 was being constructed. There’s a nice writeup over at HistoryLink about how it came to be. Click for the super high res goodness.
I-5 is one vintage structure I’d like to see destroyed. It’s too bad the entire neighborhoods that were destroyed for its construction will never be seen again. This is an important and fascinating photo, if only to remind us what a mistake it was to build a freeway in the city in the first place. Vancouver BC didn’t build a central freeway and seemed to grow just as much as Seattle without cleaving itself in two.
It did stave off development on first & capitol hills for a short time.
I never followed the time line of I-5 – if that’s a 1962 photo, it must have still been under construction during the World’s Fair.
I can’t place the streets we’re seeing here. Are any of these Olive and Denny?
I’m having a hard time placing streets here, just like Mike. Any help?
Denny is running from the foreground to the background (the approach to its overpass has just been started, and behind the trench construction has started on what is now the Melrose Vista Condos). The Olive overpass is on the right of the image. Nearby you can see the sign on the El Capitan Apartments, and the Butterworth Funeral Home right behind it.
I was initially disoriented by what must have been a temporary bridge at Yale. It appears to be the only way across in the photo.
Awesome photo. Anyone see the sign for “Jonas Bros.” on the side of the building at Boylston & Pine (currently “R Place”), just down the street from the Egyptian Theater? Those guys were huge in ’62!
The building with the Frederick & Nelson sign is where now stands the Pan Pacific Hotel / Whole Foods, bordered by 9th / Westlake, Denny, and Terry. The church above and behind, at Boren and Stewart, was the “Monastery” night club in its last incarnation, that precipitated Seattle’s “Teen Dance Ordinance” with its underage patronage. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teen_Dance_Ordinance). The large, gable roofed structure, above the Volker Building sign, was the Boren Street Disco in the late 70′s, most recently the Timberline.
The existing bridge in the middle of the photo, carrying cars down from the hill, extended from East Olive Place.
@Cascadian I would suggest to you that Vancouver did not cleave themselves in two because they are the last major metro area. They don’t have to have a giant highway for mass amounts of commerce traveling on big rigs through their city.
Note Broadway High School in upper right part of photo (down and to left of the big modern dome of the temple at 15th and Union), which was located at Broadway and Pine across the street from what is now the Egyptian Theater, and which was partially torn down to make way for Seattle Central CC (the middle section is still intact and is now Broadway Performance Hall).
The one with the huge F&N logo, before it was torn down for that hotel, was called something like “Quintin Medical” or “Quentin Medical.” Does anybody remember that, or, ideally, have pictures? I don’t have enough to ask the intertubes, even though it was there as recently as 2003.
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