My Dad, Jack Corey, took these shots looking east & west on Pine, which look like springtime. Extra floors are being added to Fredericks, and on shots from the same roll, additional floors have not yet been added to the Bon Marche. Speaking of the Heffernan Building(March 24), there’s the corner of it in the west facing shot.
Marty Corey
Marty Corey
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| Addition to the Frederick & Nelson building, early 1950′s. Photo by Jack Corey. Courtesy Marty Corey. |
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| Addition to the Frederick & Nelson building, early 1950′s. Photo by Jack Corey. Courtesy Marty Corey. |
In the picture looking up Pine, I love the signs pointing to Edmonds & Everett, and Tacoma & Portland. I hadn’t noticed those before
I <3 these! The smile on the woman’s face as she hurries across the crosswalk, the cluster of women admiring something in Strickner’s, the cartoon construction workers on the scaffolding!
And thank you, Marty for pointing out the direction signs – that’s awesome and I probably would have missed noticing those!
I love those cartoonish “workmen” attached to the scaffolding. Cute!
Tom, I’m so glad you said that. I only saw the one directly above the cars parked on the far right (looks like it’s hanging in the lamp) and couldn’t figure out what I was seeing. I thought I was having clown nightmares. After I read your comment I went back in and saw that the others, and realized that it really is supposed to look like a person there. Thanks, that was really buggin’.
These are great. I’ve seen those signs in other old photos, too. Some Downtown streets used to be part of the state highway system, IIRC — perhaps that’s why these signs were there.
Looks like both Pine and 5th were two-way streets when this was taken. Anybody know when they were changed to one-way? (Were there any one-way when streets downtown when this was taken?)
I know this is late to the post, but when I worked at F & N in it’s final years, I recall a large silver gray plaque on the main floor on the wall that hide the Escalators. The plaque listed the employees of F & N whose lives were cut short by their service in the Great War. A second small plaque, with more names, listed those lost in WW II
When Nordstroms remodeled the store, those walls were torn down to open up the floors. I am curious if anyone might know of what happened to those war memorial plaques… especially with Memorial Day this weekend. Anyone?