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

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

My name is Danae. I a am 5th generation Seattlite. My Grandma, nearing 80 and still living in Lake City, has wonderful stories and artifacts in her house. The other day I was going through some photos with her and found these snaps of girls on the beach in suits. She didn’t know any of the women but she said they were probably childhood friends of her mothers. I thought you might enjoy them. Unfortunately, I have no way of placing where they were taken. I especially love the one with the sailor that seems to be measuring a girls leg.

Thanks for your blog! Danae

I have recently digitized several boxes of slides from when my parents used to travel cross-country where they bought and sold vintage auto parts. My mom was an avid photographer and took many pictures of random things. They made several trips to Seattle in 1982, 88 and of course the Space Needle made several appearances! Keep in mind, these particular slides have been deteriorating since the 1980′s, so please pardon the dust!

This set is from April of 1982. Monorail, Space Needle, Viaduct, etc..

Cheers!
Colin