Comments on: Find Yourself 1914

By: Joe Mabel

Joe Mabel — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 09:04:43 +0000

@Joe G.: I believe you are oriented backward. It’s Providence Hospital.

By: Joe G

Joe G — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:24:21 +0000

Is that Starbucks headquarters?

By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:00:11 +0000

I think Scott and Bryan are right. Where else could you get a high shot like this except from Profanity Hill and the old Courthouse tower? Isn’t that Fire Station still there, minus the tower? I think Harborview Security works out of it.

By: Matt the Journeyman

Matt the Journeyman — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:59:09 +0000

Yes, I see the firehouse now in the 1936 dataset, on Alder, and that little dirt trail is still there too. So the block in the immediate foreground got replaced by Harborview.

By: ChrisA

ChrisA — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:17:52 +0000

I think Bryan has it right. The only building that I can see that remains is the Fire Station. It no longer has the tower, though. It’s “Engine House No. 3″ at the NW corner of Terry and Alder:

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=47.604152,-122.321928&spn=0,359.995569&z=19&layer=c&cbll=47.604065,-122.321847&panoid=tI_SuIgHZcvtk9joiZ7cpA&cbp=12,237.21,,0,-3.72

By: Matt the Journeyman

Matt the Journeyman — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:56:40 +0000

I see Bryan’s comment now (must have been hung up earlier). That was my first thought, too, (Alder is street in foreground), and that sorta jibes with the distant background if you squint just right, but then it seemed if this were Alder and still shot from the courthouse, it wouldn’t really work out, number-of-blocks-to-boren-wise. I dunno, I fold.

By: Matt the Journeyman

Matt the Journeyman — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:58:34 +0000

I looked at some 1936 aerial data and not much matched after twenty years. No fire station, but the building in the lower left foreground might be the same. It really couldn’t be anything else though. I’m okay with Terrace.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:26:18 +0000

I just can’t figure out if that is Terrace St. or not. Anyone else?

By: Matt the Journeyman

Matt the Journeyman — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:46:17 +0000

I love the little dirt path through the empty lot at lower right. There aren’t many of those little goat-tracks left in town.

By: Larry Cebula

Larry Cebula — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:43:47 +0000

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