September 14th, 2009 @ 12:17 am by Cliffe | Sorted Photo Exposure
Here’s another view of Fourth and Westlake from way back when. Back in April we tried to decipher the date of
this 5th and Westlake shot and this one looks to be a few years later. F&N has the building addition, so it must be post-1952. Click for higher res.
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| Fourth and Westlake, Seattle, Washington. Date unknown. Color photo by Max R. Jensen. |
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September 14th, 2009 @ 6:39 am
I vaguely remember when the Westin’s first tower was built (it was originally the “Washington Plaza”). I was 7 years old and the round tower was very unusual. But I have no memory of the Orpheum theater preceding it on the site. Here are some links to more info on it:
http://cinematreasures.org/theater/2458/
http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=4260
September 14th, 2009 @ 8:21 am
It tickles me to no end whenever I see the Almond Roca billboard/sign in these old downtown shots. I love the fact that Almond Roca was popular and lucrative enough at that time to warrant its own enormous advertisement!
September 14th, 2009 @ 9:07 am
Sometimes it seems that photographs like this were made with the express purpose of providing later generations with a puzzle to solve. The inclusion of half a sign, a glimpse of a facade, the presence of a certain vintage of automobile. It strikes me that cloud formations are the one thing that are a unique timestamp in any photograph like this from any time, and yet we hardly discuss them because there is no database of cloud formations (that I know of).
September 15th, 2009 @ 8:59 am
I wish Westlake Mall were still like this. It was like a little Times Square.
September 15th, 2009 @ 12:52 pm
I just wanted to say I love this blog! Seattle native here, and I love seeing the photos from my city long before I was born (1972, Northwest Hospital). Thanks so much for doing this!
September 18th, 2009 @ 10:14 am
Well, unlike the other cited… This shot was taken AFTER F & N added the additional floors… F & N in this one is 11 stories… in the other… just 3 or so…
The M&SP RR sign as pree the Great Northern Rocky sign that used to be above the Securities bldg… I think… I wonder if there is a blog of NW Neon…
September 23rd, 2009 @ 10:21 am
Louis- This picture was taken just above Times Square
Seattle Greg- First thing I thought of was the Rocky sign, too. One of my favorite Seattle signs, along with Bardahl, the Buckaroo neon, the cows billboard on Rainier, and the bubbling washer woman sign just south of the Broad Street exit off Aurora.