Paul Dorpat, Historian Without Portfolio
Since 1982, Paul has written his popular column for the Seattle Times Sunday magazine.
We will be archiving them here, starting with a handful of more recent contributions and continuing to add more as time and effort permit. Several elements ensure this will be an intriguing feature of our blog.
First, clicking on the photos will provide viewers with a much larger size than the Times can accommodate. Delight (and perhaps, the devil) can be found in the details. Second, we will post our ‘Now’ photos in color. Lastly, it allows us to swing the camera around and show wider and alternative shots from different perspectives.
Please see the beginnings of a dated list to the right and below.
1982-08-08 The Montlake Isthmus before the Ship Canal
1984-03-11 Broadening Broadway
1993-01-31 Wallingford’s Guild 45 Theater
1993-04-23 The King Street Gas Yard
1994-06-05 Seattle’s Great Northern Depot
2007-01-14 Holy Names on Capital Hill
2007-12-30 St. Vinnie’s at Lake Union
2008
2008-02-24 The West Point Lighthouse
2008-08-17 The Coliseum Theatre reborn
2008-09-14 Seattle’s Front Street
2008-09-21 Warshall’s on 2nd Ave
2008-09-28 Freeway Park Dances
2008-10-05 First Hill Landmarks
2008-10-12 The Cascade Neighborhood Skyline
2008-10-26 The Potlatch Parade on First Avenue
2008-11-16 A Pioneer Square Victorian
2008-11-30 A View from Central School tower
2008-12-07 Seattle’s Hippodrome
2008-12-14 Seattle’s Olympic Block
2008-12-21 Lake Union from Ford plant
2009
2009-01-04 The Tin Man at Yesler’s Corner
2009-01-11 Lake Sammamish: Monohon with Three Os
2009-01-25 Seattle’s Arctic Club
2009-02-15 Militia at Main Street
2009-02-22 Occidental’s Tourist Hotel
2009-03-01 Capitol Hill from the Water Tower
2009-03-08 Paramount Theatre Opening Night
2009-03-22 Broadening Broadway
2009-03-29 Major Millis’ Capitol Hill Treasures
2009-04-05 Auburn Sweet Auburn
2009-04-12 Great Northern & Mea Culpa
2009-04-25 Forty-five Years of Freeway
2009-05-03 Look Down Into Belltown
2009-05-10 Musical Baptists of Fremont
2009-05-31 The Perry Apartments
2009-06-07 The S.S. Suveric visits Pier 56
2009-06-28 The Mount Vernon Ferry
2009-07-12 Military Discipline at the AYP
2009-07-19 HOO-HOO and the HBC
2009-07-26 Pier 70 from the Bay
2009-08-09 The Swings of Cowen Park
2009-08-16 First Hill Exceptions
2009-08-23 The Roosevelt Theatre
2009-08-30 The Pantages-Palomar
2009-09-06 “All Roads Lead to the Dog House”
2009-09-13 Aurora Speedway, 1932
2009-09-27 Peter Ivanoff’s Perpetual Motion Machine
2009-10-04 Armistice Day Parade, 1918
2009-10-18 Westlake Night Lights
2009-10-25 Portland Now & Then
2009-11-22 Friends of the Market
2009-11-29 The Sprague Hotel on Yesler
2009-12-06 The Naramore Fountain
2009-12-13 English Gardens at Chittenden Locks
2010
2010-01-03 “Testing Cedar River Water”
2010-01-10 A Wallingford Restoration
2010-01-17 The Swedish Baptists
2010-01-24 Built Around the Organ
2010-01-31 A Footprint of Love
2010-02-07 Surgeon Taylor’s Blockhouse
2010-03-13 The Orpheum Theatre
2010-03-20 City Archive Anniversary
2010-03-27 The Freedman Building
2010-04-03 Retail at Second & Pine
2010-04-10 The Float and the Tenement
2010-04-17 Weights and Measures
