I realize everyone has seen a million pictures of the Pike Place Market, but I picked this one up online recently and thought I would send it your way.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/crackdog/4855409017/
I place it sometime in the 1910s. The detail is very nice.
Allen
http://www.flickr.com/photos/crackdog/4855409017/
I place it sometime in the 1910s. The detail is very nice.
Allen
Seattle’s Pike Place Public Market, c1910s. Photo courtesy Allen.
I’m glad Allen bothered with this, and thanks for posting, Jess. It’s full of tangible humanity. You can actually see the distracted worry on the face of the guy in mid-stride below and left of center as he heads to a meeting with his brother-in-law where he’ll have to ask for another loan for his business idea.
I walk all over this view every day, and it’s fascinating to realize that this bustle has been going on non-stop for well over a century and my own movements on this street are part of a scene that differs from this only very little. Looking at this, I can perceive the continuum.
…and wow, ragtop city!
Other than the young lady strolling arm in arm by the autos,
nary a hatless head – millinery madness!
[RPH] I find it strange that so few people in Seattle wear hats these days. They sure beat umbrellas.
But imagine the hat-hair madness that followed!!!
This is a fabulous shot of Pike Place. I love the guy at the rail looking out towards the water between where the two power poles come down center of shot. It sure is cool how completely similar (other than some missing architecture) this pic is to the current view.
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Call it a hunch rather than any tangible evidence, but the fashions and the cars have a more early 1920s feel to me rather than 1910s.
I agree with TomK, The car license plates look to be from 1921-22 era.
1916
During this year, the Division of Motor Vehicles, under the direction of the Secretary of State, issued the first metal license plates. They were made with a blue background and white letters. Truck plates had TRUCK across the top of the plate. The plate had WN vertically on the left side of the plate. These plates were larger than later year issues measuring 6 1/4″ X 16″
http://staff.washington.edu/bbirt/wahist~1.htm
The 20′s plates had WN horizontally on the left, with X and the year under that, through 1925.
http://www.worldlicenceplates.com/jpglps/USA_WA_GI2_1920%27s.jpg
here’s the matching 1916 plate
http://www.worldlicenceplates.com/jpglps/USA_WA_GI1_1910%27s.jpg
Thank you Allen and Jess for my new desktop wallpaper
There’s a woman near the lower right corner, walking towards us carrying a purse in her right hand, who seems to be wearing a Mickey Mouse cap. I think this just goes to show you.
I just realized that the two dark lines running left to right across the center of the picture are probably streetcar cables. They’re just out of focus. I originally thought they were just a photographic anomaly.
I like the two young men sitting in a Model T “speedster” (parked on the left side of photo), watching the ladies more than likely!
@Bruce,
Yeah, I was keeping an eye on those two. Couple a Eddie Haskell’s for sure.
I just love this photo. Wouldn’t you like to write a story about the various people in the picture?
Janet
Janet,
What do you make of the very tall young swain whose necktie we can see as his right arm worries with a button on his jacket. He’s lower left near the Market entrance sign. I have him rehearsing what he’s going to say to his sweetheart this evening — his prospects are very good and he’s going to pop the question, only he gets tongue-tied…
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