Vintage Seattle » Reframe http://www.vintageseattle.org Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:31:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Reframe: Beacon Hill’s Fire Station No. 13 http://www.vintageseattle.org/2011/03/08/reframe-beacon-hills-fire-station-no-15/ http://www.vintageseattle.org/2011/03/08/reframe-beacon-hills-fire-station-no-15/#comments Tue, 08 Mar 2011 09:08:34 +0000 Cliffe http://www.vintageseattle.org/?p=3546 Reframe time once again. Today we’ve got 3x the pleasure with Beacon Hill’s Fire Station #13 — twice in 1928 and the modern day shot. This is one beauty that still looks to be in good shape. Haven’t been able to find out much history on the building (feel free to fill in the blanks in the comments) but the 1920′s look right for the build date. Click below for the high res and click here for the modern view.
Click Beacon Hill Fire Station No. 13, Spokane and Beacon. May 31, 1928. Photograph courtesy Seattle Municipal Archives.
Click Alternate shot of Beacon Hill Fire Station No. 13 with fire engine parked in front, Spokane and Beacon. May 31, 1928. Photograph courtesy Seattle Municipal Archives.
Click Modern day street view of Beacon Hill Fire Station No. 13 courtesy Google Maps. [click here]
]]> http://www.vintageseattle.org/2011/03/08/reframe-beacon-hills-fire-station-no-15/feed/ 9 Reframe: Where Two Girls Once Stood http://www.vintageseattle.org/2011/01/25/reframe-where-two-girls-once-stood/ http://www.vintageseattle.org/2011/01/25/reframe-where-two-girls-once-stood/#comments Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:50:52 +0000 Cliffe http://www.vintageseattle.org/?p=3447 Reframe from the Seattle Municipal Archives shows two girls in August of 1960 taking center stage in the frame. The modern view is a little less cute. I think I prefer the girls striking poses to the DEAD END sign, don’t you? Click here for the modern day view. Actually, don’t.
Click Seattle Municipal Archives photograph of Sand Point Way Storm Sewers Right-of-Way. E. 75th St. between 57th Ave. NE. and 55th Ave. NE. Photo taken Aug 15, 1960. Photograph courtesy Seattle Municipal Archives.
Click Modern day street view courtesy Google Maps. [click here]
]]> http://www.vintageseattle.org/2011/01/25/reframe-where-two-girls-once-stood/feed/ 5 Reframe: 34th Ave S & Dose Terrace http://www.vintageseattle.org/2010/10/01/reframe-34th-ave-s-dose-terrace/ http://www.vintageseattle.org/2010/10/01/reframe-34th-ave-s-dose-terrace/#comments Fri, 01 Oct 2010 07:29:50 +0000 Cliffe http://www.vintageseattle.org/?p=3226 since March so here goes. Today we are Reframing 34th Ave S & Dose Terrace in Seattle’s Mount Baker neighborhood. The vintage shot comes from March of 1935 and today’s angle is courtesy Google street view. The home to the left is no longer with us but if you head down 34th in street view you can see that the house to the right is both beautiful and still around. Click it.
Click Dose Terrace and 34th Ave S, March 8th, 1935. Photograph courtesy Seattle Municipal Archives.
Link to Present View on Google Street View]]> http://www.vintageseattle.org/2010/10/01/reframe-34th-ave-s-dose-terrace/feed/ 10 Reframe: 16th Ave. S. and Spokane http://www.vintageseattle.org/2010/03/10/reframe-16th-ave-s-and-spokane/ http://www.vintageseattle.org/2010/03/10/reframe-16th-ave-s-and-spokane/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:29:54 +0000 Cliffe http://www.vintageseattle.org/?p=2766 It looks like it was cited that year for a building violation (lack of siding) so let’s grab the current day street view for a reframe. These days the Beacon Hill home does have siding and it may even be the same siding that was coming online in 1955. Click on the thumbnail for the high res copy.
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Beacon Hill home @ 16th Ave. S. and Spokane Street. June 15, 1955. Photograph courtesy Seattle Municipal Archives.
View Current Day]]> http://www.vintageseattle.org/2010/03/10/reframe-16th-ave-s-and-spokane/feed/ 6 Reframe: Bellevue & Olive http://www.vintageseattle.org/2010/02/08/reframe-bellevue-olive/ http://www.vintageseattle.org/2010/02/08/reframe-bellevue-olive/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:03:04 +0000 Cliffe http://www.vintageseattle.org/?p=2744 The Reframe shows Bellevue Ave and Olive Way — a bit of a blast from the past for me since I lived just a block from here a few years ago. A quick Google streetview look around the triangular buildings reveals that it is original (Westinghouse X-Ray at the time). The area around the Columbia Ale billboard looks like it was developed during the 50′s or 60′s. Click for the high res.
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Bellevue Ave. and Olive Way, July 10, 1945. Photograph courtesy Seattle Municipal Archives.
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Queen Anne style house at intersection of Queen Anne Avenue North and West Prospect Street. Photo by Marion Dean Ross, June 1953. Photo courtesy University of Oregon Libraries, Architecture of Oregon & the Pacific Northwest.
]]> http://www.vintageseattle.org/2009/07/20/reframe-queen-anne-prospect/feed/ 6 Reframe: First Hill’s Hotel Sorrento http://www.vintageseattle.org/2008/11/07/reframe-first-hills-hotel-sorrento/ http://www.vintageseattle.org/2008/11/07/reframe-first-hills-hotel-sorrento/#comments Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:01:41 +0000 Cliffe http://www.vintageseattle.org/?p=1944 Reframe photo comparo — so I’ve picked out one of my favorite hotels in the city. The Italian mission-style Hotel Sorrento was built in 1908 and advertised as “the hotel in the heart of things.” Home to Seattle’s first rooftop restaraunt, the view these days is limited by tall skyscrapers but still impressive. The Post-Intelligencer ran a story about the hotel in March. The structure finally went up for landmark nomination brought by current owner and preservationist Michael Malone. So let’s take a look at the Reframe — first in 1912 and then the current day shots. Click for higher-res copies.
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The Hotel Sorrento in 1912.
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The Hotel Sorrento in 2008.
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Alternate exterior angle along Terry Ave.
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Sorrento’s top floor banquet room.
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The upper floor living area with balcony.
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Hotel suite off of banquet room.
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May 17, 1955: 47th & Erskine in West Seattle. Photograph courtesy Seattle Municipal Archives, Engineering Department Photographic Negatives.
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May 4, 2008: The same view, looking up toward 47th at present day.
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Dec 22, 1933: Halleck Ave. SW and SW College St. slide. Photograph courtesy Seattle Municipal Archives, Water Department Photographic Negatives Collection.
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May 4, 2008: Looking down Halleck at present day. You’ll notice that many of the structures from the 1933 photo still exist.
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Dec 22, 1933: Halleck Ave. SW and SW College St. slide. Photograph courtesy Seattle Municipal Archives, Water Department Photographic Negatives Collection.
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May 4, 2008: Looking up Halleck Ave toward SW College St at present day. The home at the intersection is still standing and now has a deck.
]]> http://www.vintageseattle.org/2008/05/05/reframe-west-seattles-halleck-and-college/feed/ 1 Reframe: 23rd And Marion http://www.vintageseattle.org/2008/01/11/reframe-23rd-and-marion/ http://www.vintageseattle.org/2008/01/11/reframe-23rd-and-marion/#comments Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:28:44 +0000 Cliffe http://www.vintageseattle.org/2008/01/11/reframe-23rd-and-marion/ Reframe feature! Ever since I started Vintage Seattle, I’ve been hoping that people would write in with bits of history from their neck of the woods and now this is starting to happen in earnest. Great stuff. Scott Durham of the Central District News Blog wrote in with this Reframe of 23rd and Marion. Take it, Scott:
I’m also a Squire Park resident and thought you might be interested in this picture I found a while back. It shows the building at 23rd & Marion that is currently all boarded up and recently posted “For Sale”. That property was a functional barber shop in OK shape until an out of control car ran into it one night 3 or four years ago. It’s been a mess ever since, and now I assume it and the neighboring property will sell and be replaced by townhomes.

And now that I look at the picture more closely, I see something in the distance that doesn’t exist in our current world. If you look up Marion, you see the Immaculate Conception Church as it exists today. Move across the horizon to the left and there’s an outline of a large building, directly above the white awning of the grocery. I can’t imagine what that could be. Perhaps it existed on the property that now has the DSHS complex across Cherry from Providence Hospital.

Here’s two pictures – one repeats the historical scene, and one focuses on the grocery property itself. Why would anyone ever remove the nice high gables from the attached house? It boggles the mind, especially since the original house appears to have matched the row of historical Victorians that still exist on the west side of 23rd.

Scott Durham
January 7, 2008
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Marion St. looking west from 23rd Ave., June 12, 1920. Image courtesy Library of Congress, U.S. Copyright Office. University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
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The same shot reframed in January 2007. Image courtesy Scott Durham.
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Close-up of wh at used to be a corner grocery store, more recently a barber shop. Image courtesy Scott Durham.
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