[...] Our family would come up to Seattle on occasion in the 1960?s and early 1970?s (from the Puyallup Valley) and then I attended the UW starting in 1977. At any point during those years, if I was out-and-about town, I’d usu ally come across a postcard display rack. If something caught my eye, I’d look at the back and the credit would almost ALWAYS say… “Photo by Max Jensen” and I’d buy it because I knew it was the real deal. What a truly wonderful and remarkable gift he gave to all of us.
John F.
July 21, 2010
The “real deal” indeed.
John F.
July 21, 2010
Part of Seattle’s Water Front and Sky Line as seen from Elliott Bay. The Space Needle is 600 feet high, built at the time of the World’s Fair in 1962, stands out like a sentinel guarding the beauty of the Pacific Northwest. Color photo by Max. R. Jensen.
Water tower!!
Matt: You like ‘em? Miss ‘em?
Is that checkerboard-painted building next to the Port of Seattle building the Edgewater? I remember chucking a little when I returned home after several years away and saw that the Edgewater had tarted itself up to look respectable.
“Tarted itself up”–ha! I love it.
That I do, Jess. I like how systems used to be exposed and have unintended parallel lives. Watertowers made a second-tier skyline back in the day, also smacked of castle-tops and so fired kidly imaginations. Remember the girls swimming in the water tower in the tv series “Petticoat Junction” (no, you’re not yet so old). Being swum in was not the intended function of water towers, it was a seren”dip”ity. I dunno, the world used to be full of charm like that. I look hard to find it these days. I always shout out the water towers. If it bugs, let me know and I’ll try to refrain myself.
No no, I like them too! Good explanation. Also liked the “dip” pun.