I have a mystery photo That I hope can be solved. I purchased this online and it was listed as Seattle but the seller wasn’t sure. The back of the photo has “Magnolia Bluff” written on it in pencil. I’d love to find out exactly where this was taken.

Allen

Hi there! I just ran across your blog through Google and have been enjoying all the vintage pictures. While looking through your site it occurred to me that you may be interested in some vintage Seattle images that came into my possession. I recently purchased a number of slides from a local Salvation Army store for an art project I was working on and upon looking at them I found that they were photo’s from the construction of the Seattle Center and the Worlds Fair. I scanned in a majority of the slides [...]

Josh Salwitz

My Dad, Jack Corey, took these shots looking southbound at 10:35 AM at Fourth & Pike, and looking northbound at 11:15 AM, probably in 1950. Two movies are playing at the Colonial, one with Randolph Scott, one with William Gargan. According to IMDB, they never co-starred in a movie, and Gargan didn’t make a movie from 1949 to 1956, so the 1949-50 Ford sedans semi-confirm a year. Men’s tailors Lundquist-Lilly shares the 4th & Pike Building with HFC (Household Finance), in an office they occupied until at least the mid-1970′s, and the Arden Ice Cream shop was there until supplanted by Pay-N-Save. (I’d guess that my Dad was probably downtown visiting my Mom, who was an elevator operator in the 4th & Pike Building)

Marty Corey
5/12/2010

As a native of Seattle, and a resident at various times over the past 4 decades, I have been following your Vintage Seattle blog for some time and have enjoyed many of the pictures. In a recent posting you requested shots from old shoe boxes, so here is one.

Attached is a photo of the Space Needle in the distance with I-5 under construction taken from behind St. Mark’s Cathedral in mid- March 1964 (do not have the exact date). At that time I was a UW student and had just acquired a new camera, so I walked from campus up Capitol Hill to take some “scenic” shots, all of them in B&W. This is the only one I have scanned as yet, but it does link to your recent theme of Space Needle photos.

I hold copyright in the picture, but I hereby grant permission to include it in your Vintage Seattle blog if identification of the source is included.

E. O. Pederson, Ph.D.
Fairfax, VA

Might your readers be able to help us identify the location of a photo ? We posted it on Flickr but so far commenters have been stumped. We’ve been assuming it was taken in Seattle, as it’s an Engineering Department negative, but that isn’t necessarily the case. Here’s the photo; the comments below it outline the ideas that have be suggested to date.

Julie Kerssen, Archivist
Seattle Municipal Archives