Vintage Seattle http://www.vintageseattle.org Tue, 19 Feb 2013 07:06:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Reframe: 4703 Beach Drive http://www.vintageseattle.org/2012/05/17/reframe-4703-beach-drive/ http://www.vintageseattle.org/2012/05/17/reframe-4703-beach-drive/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 07:03:52 +0000 Cliffe http://www.vintageseattle.org/?p=3829
Click 4703 Beach Drive, circa 1961. Appeal of Waite Quesnell, et al., from decision of Board of Adjustment on a variance application. Photograph courtesy Seattle Municipal Archives.
Click 4703 Beach Drive, present day. Photograph courtesy Google Maps.
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Click 1880-1920. Photo of wooden building with some windows and doors missing or boarded up, foundations exposed, and no stairs leading up to doors. Old 6th St. school, moved to So side Marian Sts and east of 7th Ave. Image courtesy Washington State Digital Archives.
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Click Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, one of the busiest air terminals of the U.S.A. Seen loading on right the tall tail of a Pan-American 707 Jetliner, on the landing strip a Trans-Canada DC3, the old workhorse, and to the left a conventional Western Airlines plane. What a contrast between the old and new in passenger aviation! Color photo by Max R. Jensen. Circa 1960′s.
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Click A Seattle home on postcard. Can anyone locate it? Date unknown.
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Click Dearborn Street at 9th Avenue South, Dec 30, 1936. Photograph courtesy Seattle Municipal Archives.
Click Dearborn Street at 9th Avenue South, present day. Photograph courtesy Google Maps.
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Click Washington Pioneer Hall, date unknown, view S. E. 43rd & Blaine Str. E. Photo shows two-story brick building with arched windows and “Washington Pioneer Hall” carved near top. Sign on side says “Olympic Boat Works.” Image courtesy Washington State Digital Archives.
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Click Teeing off @ Seattle’ s Jeffer son Park Golf Course, 1925. Photo by Asahel Curtis; courtesy Seattle Municipal Archives. Jefferson Park Golf Course was built in 1915 by Thomas Bendelow, one of America’ s pioneer golf architect s.
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Click Architectural drawing of the White Building by Howells & Stokes, 1908. Part of the master-planned Metropolitan Tract — the Cobb Building is the only one standing today. Demolished 1974. Image courtesy U.W. University Libraries Digital Collection.
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Click Photo shows the American Automobile Associ ation office at the corner of Pine and Boren in Se attle. Ca. 1950. Title continues “at the corner of Boren & Pike, in the path of the Seattle Freeway.” Image courtesy Washington State Digital Archives.
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Click Denny Hotel & Regrade. Photo courtesy Ronald Edge.
Click Denny Hotel & Regrade. Photo courtesy Ronald Edge.
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