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
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
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| Construction of I-5 with Space Needle in background, March 1964. Photo by E.O. Pederson. |
What’s that snakey covered walkway-rampish thing, right of center at the edge of the lake? It looks like a gangway but I don’t know of anything that ever docked in Lake Union that was big enough to need one so tall!
The “walkway-rampish thing” looks like it goes up to the top of several tall cylindrical structures, not unlike a grain elevator or the kind of storage silo I’ve seen at cement plants or other industrial operations. The “walkway” is likely the housing for a conveyor. Anybody know exactly what business this was? I’m sure it’s since been demolished as that area is now a marina and restaurants.
On the SE side of Lake Union was a Lone Star Sand & Gravel cement plant, which was just south of the St. Vincent de Paul second hand store. These two great shots from MOHAI show the area quite nicely. The first is from 1934, the second from 1962:
http://content.lib.washington.edu/cdm-mohai/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/imlsmohai&CISOPTR=1458&CISOBOX=1&REC=8
http://content.lib.washington.edu/cdm-mohai/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/imlsmohai&CISOPTR=2490&CISOBOX=1&REC=13
The sailing ship just to the left of the cement plant in the 1962 shot is the “Falls Of Clyde”, which was saved from becoming a breakwater in BC(like the “La Merced” is in Anacortes), and was towed from Lake Union to Honolulu in 1963 and restored.