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 Capitol 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
2010-05-15 Lewis Whittelsey’s Survey
2010-05-22 Green Lake Theatre, 1947
2010-06-05 Lost Landmarks at Pier 51
2010-06-12 The View from Belvedere Viewpoint
2010-06-20 Seattle City Light Steam Plant
2010-06-27 “This Place Matters”
2010-07-03 A View Across First Hill
2010-07-10 The Pike Street Hill Climb
2010-07-25 The Evelyn May in the Belltown Ravine
2010-08-01 The Bell Street Overpass
2010-08-08 The Eaton Apartments
2010-08-22 The Seattle Speed Bowl
2010-08-28 A Farm near Lake Union
2010-09-11 The Central Bus Terminal
2010-09-18 Dexter Horton’s Ruin
2010-09-26 Union Bay Houseboat
2010-10-09 The Top of Queen Anne
2010-10-24 The 45th Street Viaduct
2010-10-30 The Fireboat Duwamish
2010-11-06 The Startup Baptists
2010-11-14 Associated Poultry on Fried Chicken Way
2010-11-20 The Medical Dental Building
2010-12-04 Gothic Row on Western
2010-12-11 Fort Lawton Barracks
2010-12-18 ‘Threading the Bead’ between Magnolia and Ballard
2011
2011-01-15 The Central Business District from Harborview
2011-01-22 Harborview from Smith Tower
2011-01-29 Lake Union from Smith Tower
2011-02-05 A New Fourth Avenue
2011-02-12 Piner’s Point and Plummer’s Bay
2011-02-19 Waterfront Park Fountain
2011-02-26 Romans’ St. James from the Great Northern Tower
2011-03-05 Wallingford Fisticuffs
2011-03-12 Madrona Park – End of the Line
2011-03-26 Floating Bridge Inauguration
2011-04-16 Gather Ye Rose Buds…
2011-04-23 The Abiding Smith Tower
2011-05-01 The Public Safety Building
2011-05-08 Looking North on 3rd
2011-05-14 Front Street Show Strip
2011-05-21 Madison Trolley Accident
2011-05-28 A Saved Victorian: The Brewer House
2011-06-18 Green Lake Swimmers
2011-07-02 Colman Dock and the H.B. Kennedy
2011-07-09 War Bonds on the Ave
2011-07-16 Antique Alki Swimwear
2011-07-30 Third and Pine 1917
2011-08-06 Denny Knoll’s Death Knell
2011-08-14 The Granite Falls Station
2011-08-20 Within Woodland Park
2011-08-27 Fifth Avenue Parades
2011-09-03 The Heroic John McGraw
2011-09-17 Third and Spring Regrade
2011-09-24 The Pike Pier Fishing Fleet
2011-10-01 The First Presbyterians
2011-10-08 Section Lines on Wallingford Hill
2011-11-12 The Tacoma Public Library
2011-11-19 “New Land, North of the Columbia”
2011-12-10 “Before Seattle Rocked”
2011-12-17 ‘Cyrene’ not ‘Latona’
2011-12-24 The Jackson Street Regrade
2012
2012-01-14 Thirty Years of Dorpat
2012-01-21 Coming Home to Riverside
2012-01-28 Central Business District, 1876
2012-02-11 Christian Scientists
2012-02-18 Governor Martin’s Starvation Camp
2012-02-25 The Jolly Roger on Lake City Way
2012-03-03 Snowbound on Second
2012-03-17 The Tacoma Interurban at Occidental
2012-03-24 Row Houses on Fifth
2012-04-01 A Golden Rule for April Fools
2012-04-07 The Nine Millionth Visitor
2012-04-21 The Beaumont Apartments
2012-04-28 The Smith Cove Glass Works
2012-05-19 Mrs. Anderson’s Eccentric Ride
2012-06-02 Westlake and Thomas
2012-06-09 Suburbia Near Dearborn
2012-06-17 Issaquah Coal Strike
2012-07-01 Buzby’s Waterfront Mill
2012-07-07 KRAB: Listener-supported Free-form Radio
2012-07-14 Seattle Center Corral
2012-07-21 MOHAI’s Seattle Fire Mural
2012-07-28 The Phinney Ridge Ferris Wheel
2012-08-04 The Wilhelmina/Winona Apartments
2012-08-11 The Dominion Monarch
2012-08-18 Second Hill from First Hill
2012-08-25 Cascade Hotel Spectacle
2012-09-08 The Palace Hip Theatre
2012-09-15 Mrs. Anderson, Co-eds, and Mea Culpa
2012-09-22 The Schmitz Park Arch
2012-09-29 – The Federal Courthouse
2012-10-06 The Pontius Court Apartments
2012-10-13 Fair & Festival: Belgian Waffles
2012-10-21 The Denny’s Green Acres
2012-10-27 The Arabian Theatre
2012-11-03 The Hollywood Tavern
2012-11-11 Motorcycle and Art on 3rd Avenue South
2012-11-18 The Ishii Family Farm
2012-11-24 Billboards on Third Avenue
2012-12-01 The Central Seattle Service Station
2012-12-15 Town Hall + Another Rogue’s Christmas
2012-12-22 Ballard’s Bascule Bridge
2012-12-29 The Rainier Club & The Burnett Home
2013
2013-01-05 Frank Shaw’s Big Neighbor
2013-01-13 Alley to James Street
2013-01-19 Georgetown Firemen on Pike
2013-01-26 Pachyderms in Pioneer Square
2013-02-01 First and Pike: Nov. 6th 1953
2013-02-09 A B50 Crash near Airport Way
2013-02-16 The Northern Life (aka Seattle) Tower
2013-02-23 The American Hotel on Westlake
2013-03-02 The New Railroad Avenue
2013-03-16 Signal Station on Aurora
2013-03-23 The Gables Apartment on Capitol Hill
2013-03-30 Upheaval on Spring Street
2013-04-06 Seattle’s First Rep
2013-04-20 Seattle (aka Broadway) High School
2013-04-27 Hole off of Holgate
2013-05-11 Lutherans on the Move
2013-05-18 Queen Anne Pioneers
2013-06-01 The Graystone on First Hill
2013-06-07 A Fremont Trolley Derailed
2013-06-15 Beacon Hill Traffic
2013-06-21 A Night in Old Alexandria
2013-07-13 The Mukai Farm Matters
2013-07-20 The Old Colony Apartments
2013-08-03 Stan Sayres on Broadway
2013-08-10 Hizzoner’s Long Home Run
2013-08-17 Sweet Fun at Bitter Lake
2013-08-31 West Seattle High School
2013-09-20 Rowe’s Row at 1st and Bell
2013-09-28 Secular Conversions at 3rd and Pine
2013-10-05 The Washington State Building at AYPE
2013-10-12 First Shovel at 5th and Battery
2013-10-19 AYP’s Forestry Building
2013-11-02 The Anthony Family Bindery
2013-11-09 First Hill…is just as steep
2013-12-07 The Amelia Apartments
2013-12-21 Dorms near Frosh Pond
2013-12-29 Fairgrounds at Madison Park
2014
2014-01-11 The Zindorf Apartments
2014-01-19 The First Fire Department HQ
2014-02-01 First Avenue South, 1961
2014-02-08 Roosevelt Way, 1946
2014-02-21 Polk’s Potlatch Parade, 1911
2014-02-28 Seattle’s General Hospital
2014-03-15 The Minor/Collins Home on First HIll
2014-03-22 A Methodist Revival on Union Street
2014-03-29 Madison’s Lost Poplars
2014-04-05 Two Views from the Needle
2014-04-12 The LIttlefield Apartments
2014-04-26 Post Office Teams on University Street
2014-05-03 A Late Latona Bridge
2014-05-10 The Post-Fire Post-Intelligencer
2014-05-17 The Ship Canal Bridge
2014-05-24 A Hotel at Pike and Boren
2014-05-31 The Pike Place Corner Market Building
2014-06-07 The Lake Union Dam Washout
2014-06-28 Spokane Street from West Seattle
2014-07-05 A “New Deal” for Hard Times
2014-07-12 A Brooklyn Home Taken for the Cleaners
2014-07-25 When the Circus Came to Town
2014-08-02 The Fremont Trolley Barn
2014-08-16 The Arkona Apts at First and Denny
2014-08-23 End of the Line for Golden Gardens
2014-08-30 The Youngstown Steel Mill
2014-09-20 The Occidental Hotel
2014-09-27 First Hill and Yesler Terrace
2014-10-04 Roll on, Columbia Street
2014-10-11 Third Avenue Regrade
2014-11-08 The Summit Avenue Hospital
2014-11-22 The Wall Street Pier
2014-12-20 Poetry and Prose at First and Madison
2015
2015-01-03 The Bartell’s Motorcycle Courier
2015-01-10 The Terry House at Third and James
2015-01-17 A Home on ‘The Ave’
2015-01-24 ‘Friends of the Market’ Protest at City Hall
2015-02-14 The Gardner Home on Boren Ave
2015-02-21 The Stetson and Post Block
2015-03-07 Going Postal at Marion and Western
2015-03-14 The Singular Traffic Tower at 4th and Pike
2015-04-04 St. Vinnie’s in Belltown
2015-04-10 Swedish Baptists in Ballard
2015-04-18 First Hill Row Houses
2015-04-25 Seattle Fire Ruins Redux
2015-05-01 Steps to the Harbor
2015-05-09 Klondike Fever on First
2015-05-23 The Louch Grocery on First Avenue
2015-06-06 Gethsemane Lutheran
2015-06-12 Sarah Baker’s Hotel
2015-06-20 Ye Olde Totem Place
2015-07-04 The Golden Potlatch on the Waterfront
2015-07-11 The Seattle Fire, Three Weeks Later
2015-07-18 Fire Below the Market
2015-08-22 The Frances Hotel (5th Ave Regrade)
2015-08-28 Return of the Homestead
2015-09-12 The Wallingford Wall at the Latona Knoll
2015-09-26 A Row House at Sixth and Pine
2015-10-03 A View of Lake Union
2015-10-08 Mill Street at Pioneer Place
2015-10-17 A View from the Cambridge Hotel
2015-10-24 The North Seattle Trolley Yard
2015-11-07 An Approach to the Campus
2015-11-14 A Green Lake Midwife
2015-12-26 ‘Too High and Too Steep’
2016
2016-01-09 McKay Ford on Westlake
2016-01-15 The Prince Rupert Hotel
2016-01-23 Mayor Brown’s Garage in Redmond
2016-01-30 The Bank of Redmond
2016-02-06 Baker’s Dock aka The Ecclefechan
2016-02-13 Ballard’s Bascule Bridge
2016-02-20 Big Snow in Ballard
2016-02-27 Seward Street, Juneau, Alaska
2016-03-05 Braun’s Brewery in Georgetown
2016-03-12 The St. James Dome Collapse
2016-03-19 The Juneau Street Footbridge
2016-03-26 West Woodland Neighbors
2016-04-09 ‘We Love the Junction’
2016-04-16 James Street Cable Cars
2016-04-23 The Great White Fleet, 1908
2016-04-30 The Normandie Apartments at 9th and University
2016-05-07 The Georgetown Depot
2016-05-21 Row of Houses on Broadway
2016-05-28 Seattle’s First Big Fire
2016-06-04 Florists’ Row at 9th and Union
2016-06-11 Music at Commercial and Main
2016-07-09 The Making of Western Avenue
2016-07-23 Digging the Fremont Canal
2016-07-30 The Market – ‘An Honest Place in a Phony Time’
2016-08-06 The Plymouth Congregational Church at 3rd and University
2016-08-13 Mark Tobey in the Market
2016-08-20 The Waldorf Apartments
2016-08-27 Fire Station No. 5 (or ‘You’ll Like Tacoma’)
2016-09-03 Third & Virginia, 1936
2016-09-10 Delta Gamma on the Ave
2016-09-17 Yesler’s Wharf, 1891
2016-09-24 The Westlake Triangle (aka The Silverstone Block)
2016-10-01 The Post Alley Curve
2016-10-08 ‘The Sunset Board Room’
2016-10-15 The First (and Forgotten) Alki Natatorium
2016-10-22 The Society Theatre on Broadway
2016-11-05 Broadway and Roy and The Deluxe
2016-11-19 Jackson St. and First Avenue South
2016-11-26 A Room with a View – Atop the WAC Roof
2017
2017-01-07 The Ballard Fire Station ca. 1903
2017-01-14 The Corgiat Building near Pioneer Square
2017-01-21 The Butler (Hotel) Did It!
2017-01-28 The Last of Denny Hill, Part 1
2017-02-04 The Last of Denny Hill, Part 2
2017-02-11 Seattle’s First Chinatown
2017-02-18 Looking East from Ninth and Pike
2017-02-25 Two Marches (on 4th Avenue)
2017-03-04 Big Clock in Big Snow
2017-03-11 Our Lady of Good Help
2017-03-18 Our Lady of Good Help, Part 2
2017-03-25 East Olive Way, Sept. 21st, 1938
2017-04-01 Broadway and Republican
2017-04-08 The Armour Building
2017-04-15 Queen City Florist at 13th and Union
2017-04-22 Independence Day at 3rd and Yesler
2017-04-29 Lower Roosevelt Way, 1940
2017-05-05 Westlake, ‘The Big Funnel’
2017-05-13 North End of Fremont Bridge
2017-06-17 The Alley That Became I-5
2017-06-24 Mysterious Dance at Olive & Terry
2017-07-08 A Fifth Avenue Regrade, 1911
2017-07-15 Margaret Denny’s First Hill Home
2017-07-22 ‘The City is More Than Human’
2017-07-29 The Blyth Barn on Squak Slough
2017-08-05 The Gatewood School
2017-08-12 John Stamets’ Pike Place Market Portrait
2017-08-19 Swedish Hospital, 1929
2017-08-26 The ‘Empire Builder’s’ Bust
2017-09-02 A Dump at Dexter and Aloha
2017-09-09 Two Founders on Main Street
2017-09-16 The Onarga Apartments
2017-10-28 UW South Campus – Oars and Oceanography
2017-11-04 The Church on the Corner (of Boren & Pine)
2017-11-11 Olympia Beer on the Waterfront
2017-11-25 Queen Anne’s Scenic Conkling Place
2017-12-02 The Kalakala at Low Tide
2017-12-16 Husky Stadium, 1920
2018-01-06 Golden Potlatch Parade, 1911
2018-01-13 Polson Building Fire, 1974
2018-01-20 Poulsbo’s Front Street
2018-01-27 The Winslow Ferry Terminal, ca. 1950
2018-02-03 Inside Dexter Horton’s Bank, 1882
2018-02-10 Cornish School Construction, 1921
2018-02-17 Parades at 4th and Pine
2018-03-03 3rd & Pike Looking East, 1903
2018-03-10 The Ave Trolley, ca. 1939
2018-03-17 A Pioneer Place Welcome, 1908
2018-03-24 An Elks Carnival, 1902
2018-03-31 Dairy Men at Dreamland
2018-04-07 Mill Street, ca. 1887
2018-04-14 The Market’s Front Door
2018-04-28 Second & Columbia, 1886
2018-05-05 The Seattle Seven on the Courthouse Steps
2018-05-12 The Hamilton in Georgetown
2018-05-19 The Spring Street Regrade, 1906-07
2018-05-26 Where Rails Meet Sails – An 1884 View from Beacon Hill
2018-06-02 The Leland Hotel from Pike and Post
2018-06-09 A Denny Home at 3rd & Union
2018-06-23 The Northwest Folklike Festival
2018-06-30 Maryland Place in West Seattle
2018-07-07 Marion Street Looking East, ca 1905
I am hoping you can help me. I am looking for a picture of the Seattle City Hospital which opened March 11, 1909 on the fourth floor of the new municipal building at Fifth Avenue and Yesler Way -the Public Safety Building. It supposedly was a six story triangular building. Thank you in advance! Mary in The Dalles, Oregon
Can you provide information about City Hospital or about
Frank Jeffry Clancy, M. D., who practiced there in the 1920s?
Mary,
Paul may have already emailed you, and I’m sure he has wonderful historical shots of the building you’re looking for. If not, or in the meantime, try this link to a recent photo I took of it (http://bythedarkofthemoon.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/yesler_bldg_big_o.jpg) I believe this is your building. I never heard that it was a hospital. It would be interesting to read what Paul knows about it.
We have 3 art works of Seattle and Alaska dating fron 1906 Also some postcards from early 1900s. If interested call 360 908 0699 Bob
I am hoping to answer your question about the car in the lower left corner of the Then photograph. It may be a Queen. I have a picture of a 1909 Queen which I took last summer. It resembles the car in the photo. I could email it to you if you are interested. Your feature in Pacific Northwest is a highlight of my week. Thank you.
Paul,
Wow, 2331 Fairview Ave. E.#F. brings back many memories of fun times and great people. I lived there too, with Meryl the summer and autumn of ’66. Also aboard at that time was Stephen Klarer, the Chinese scholar, and Eric Anderson, the budding architect. My godfather’s architecture office housed the Helix, and Meryl worked with him. His name was Bob Eyre. He was a special guy, as was his wife, Kae. She’s my great aunt. Later on, She and Eric were an item. Before Mark bought the houseboat, Kae and Bob owned it. I stopped by and took a photo of the place back in 2002 on a trip through Seattle. It still looked as I’d remembered it all these years. I would like to get in touch with some of those wonderful people. Meryl, Paul and Donia Post, Bob Hoscoe, Rick Barrett, and Anne Dawson, just to name a few. They were all part of the moveable feast that took place every Friday night on that dock, and I sure do miss them. One of the
parties that took place started to sink the houseboat from so many people aboard…
Those were great times. Thanks for bringing it all back with your writing.
Peace,
John Carter
and I still have
Thank you for the Then and Now series, my familys has been in Seattle over a 100 yrs and in the 1st Then and Now book is a photo of my Grandfathers grocery store in the Roosevelt district, he sold the store and started his carpenter business, he built several homes and business’s around Greenlake, he started building the family home in 1904 and completed it in 1914 where seven children were raised, I love the history of Seattle and the Then and Now series gives a photo of City which I really enjoy.
Paul, Sunday March 27th, Sunday Times Pacific Northwest magazine:
THEN (1940): why do we not see the semi-circle turn-out that was part of the I90 floating bridge in the 60’s and 70’s??
I was fascinated by your documentation of the 1912 Baist’s Real Estate Atlas in this morning’s Seattle Times Pacific Northwest magazine, but when trying to access the web site given at the end of the article, my browser says, “You do not have the authority to access this site”. How can I see the maps online? Thanks.
Stan Stumbo
Bainbridge Island
I am looking for photos of Admiral Junction in the 40’s and 50’s. I am specifically interested in Tony’s Market (vegetable stand), the meat market next door to Storr’s grocery, and further north, Mr. Carroll’s drugstore (an antique store is now in that building) and the grocery store attached.
I was raised on Palm Avenue and our home is still there (1602).
I hope you can direct me to these photographs.
Paul: I have lost the website address for the 1912 Gazette real estate plat maps. Can you give it to me again. We looked at it and found my wifes fathers property near the Locks-‘section’ 14. Thank you, BR
I’m a frequent reader of your Now & Then feature. I’m always curious about what appears to be a coal fired power plant a block or so inland from Coleman Dock. While it is not an architectual wonder, it certainly has stood the test of time. Have you ever given any history on this facility?
I second Greg’s query. I walk by there a lot and I experience a cat-like impulse to slink in there and look around. The place is still being used for something. What are they doing in there?
I’m wondering if there is any documentation of people who dove off the Fremont Bridge for fun back in 1921. My mother, then 16, and her diving instructor ‘Black Jack’ dove off of there in the summer of 1921. I have pictures of them both at the time but not in the dive. I remember mother saying her bathing caap split right in two! They had trained at the Coleman Pool.
What was the original purpose or use of the garage looking building @ the Southwest corner of 2nd & Washington? It’s all boarded up now but looks to have once been an impressive building.
Paul & Jean – I enjoy your “Now & Then” pictures and articles in the Pacific Northwest section of the Seattle Times. I have a photo taken in downtown Seattle in 1950. I am not sure of the location and would like to find out so I can do a current picture of the location. My grandparents, my uncle and I are in the picture. I am the only one who is still living. I was 5 years old in the picture. Can you tell me how I might identify the location of the picture. It was in front of a movie theatre. Thanks.
I always enjoy and appreciate photos and stories about Woodland Park – thank you. I’ve often wondered about the decision to put Aurora Ave through the middle of the park. Was there much civic debate about it? Did they consider tunneling underneath or choosing a different pathway (perhaps through Ballard?) instead of cutting through? I can’t help but wonder how they decided to slice up such a beautiful part of the city for the sake of traffic. Thanks for any insight you might be able to provide.
I found in my year old husbands, grandfathers desk who lived in Hanford, a tin box that looks like it could have been maybe a stamp pad? It is the size of a sheet of paper and when you open it, it has inside a sponge like material and is very wet and like ink. It is very old and rusty. The outside is rusty but you can read that it says Lowman and Hanford Seattle Wa and Lithograph. We were just curious if you could tell us what it is or was used for. Thank you in advance if you can give us some info.
Just found John Carter’s post (below). In early ’70’s I fell in love with a wonderful young woman, Barbara Johson, who had moved onto the adjacent dock at 2339 Fairview Ave. We shared my houseboat next to Meryl’s for several years until we moved to our current location in the Haller Lake neighborhood, the site of my late teens and early ’20s, and where we now live in the cottage my dad and I built in 1951. Our twins, now 25, are thriving in DC and Brooklyn and visit occasionally.
I’m still in intermittent touch with most of the others (Bob Hosko and Paul Post passed many years ago), I saw Donnia Post and Ann Dawson,last year; Mark a few years ago; Steven about 40 years ago just before he disappeared into monkdom, .
Contact me at RickBarrett@gmail.com, be happy to visit.
Rick
John Carter
February 22, 2011 at 1:03 am
Paul,
Wow, 2331 Fairview Ave. E.#F. brings back many memories of fun times and great people. I lived there too, with Meryl the summer and autumn of ’66. Also aboard at that time was Stephen Klarer, the Chinese scholar, and Eric Anderson, the budding architect. My godfather’s architecture office housed the Helix, and Meryl worked with him. His name was Bob Eyre. He was a special guy, as was his wife, Kae. She’s my great aunt. Later on, She and Eric were an item. Before Mark bought the houseboat, Kae and Bob owned it. I stopped by and took a photo of the place back in 2002 on a trip through Seattle. It still looked as I’d remembered it all these years. I would like to get in touch with some of those wonderful people. Meryl, Paul and Donia Post, Bob Hoscoe, Rick Barrett, and Anne Dawson, just to name a few. They were all part of the moveable feast that took place every Friday night on that dock, and I sure do miss them. One of the
parties that took place started to sink the houseboat from so many people aboard…
Those were great times. Thanks for bringing it all back with your writing.
Peace,
John Carter
and I still have
OMG! I typoed Barbara Johnson’s name.
Rick
Please note that Seattle’s old Pier 51 location is now the Seattle/Bremerton ferry dock, NOT the Seattle/Vashon ferry dock. Please go correct your error.
I don’t know whether you can give me the email address of Dianne Wheless Thorniley in one of your responses to Now and Then but she indicated that she grew up at 1602 Palm Ave in West Seattle. I just happened to grow up at 1610 Palm Ave and it would be very interesting to contact her.
Thanks for any help you might give to me.
Bob Windom
23900 SE 160th St.
Issaquah, WA 98027
bob-windom@comcast.net
I seem to remember an older, pre-Space Needle, Seattle City Logo consisting of an orobouros (serpent eating its own tail) … or was I just on a bad acid trip.
The Indian head logo is a recent appeasement to Native Americans just like King County’s logo change from a crown to MLK’s profile, and the renaming of Empire Way South to Martin Luther King, Jr. Way South was an appeasement to the denizens of the “Central District”.
I think appeasement is recism on steroids … what do you think Paul?
… racism on steroids
Our family’s bakery, Buchan Baking Company, was a part of Seattle’s history from the early 1900’s up until the sale to Oroweat in the mid 1960’s. We are trying to recover as many pieces of the ‘story’ as possible. A part of our collection can be found at http://www.buchansbread.com and any insight or artifacts that anyone can share, please contact us at info@buchansbread.com
And “Remember to Reach for the Tartan Wrapper”
I was recently found a faded copy of a “Now & Then” titled “Licton Park Home”. It was a great piece on the Licton home of David Denny that is still there. However, when I went through your archives, I could not find it? I have “Seattle Now & Then, Vol. 1,” but could not find it in there either. Where can I find this Now & Then about the former David Denny vacation home (and permanent home after the Panic of 1893)?
Paul: First, a thank you. I so enjoy reading your story every Sunday in the Times. It’s the first thing I look for.
Second, a question. What is the history behind the little stone house at the East entrance to the Arboretum? I have lived in Seattle since 1951, and can remember my parents driving us kids by that little stone house on Sunday drives.
As a small child, I was always somewhat scared and wondered if an old troll lived there. You know what I mean. Anyway, what’s inside and is it used for anything these days. I assume it was originally a caretaker’s house. Thanks.
Hi Paul, I am working on putting together a photo book about Seattle radio history. It will be published by Arcadia Publishing Co. early next year. I am currently on a hunt for photos of early radio broadcasting in the Puget Sound area. Can you help by providing some images from your vast collection? Maybe your readers can help. Thanks in advance.
John Schneider
Paul – when I first moved here 21 years ago I used your notes and pictures of Seattle then and now to learn about local folklore and history. I am a civil engineer and came across this from an ASCE article. Check out the sink hold on in Revena in 1957 (year I was born).
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/07/sinkholes-when-the-earth-opens-up/100552/
Tom
Hi Paul! Hope you are well. The Ward House is well! I need a forensic historian (other?) to find an old Rainier Beer poster (ca 1970-75?) that has a class mate of mine *(Chris Kirk) in it along with a nice picture of Mt. Rainier superimposed on his (bald) head. It was a billboard and displayed elsewhere. We are having our 50th Lake Washington HS reunion and he cannot make the trip from Boston. We would like to get an image. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Come visit the Ward House when you are next up here. I may retire soon (pushing 70) and sell it. Ughh.
hi Paul this is Louis the mail man with the heart issue i had the route just north of your house. I was going over some old photo i bought and found a photo of a house at 811 madison st seattle wa with the names Cicel o Temple and Susie e Temple on the back also a family photo marked madrona park seattle wash with the names of the people on the back if you send me an email i can send a scan of the photos
I’m hoping you have in your possession — or know where I can find — a photo from the 1930s of the Sunset Boarding House at 725 9th Ave — kitty corner from St James Cathedral, and now occupied by Skyline Senior Living.
It was run — in large part for the soldiers and sailors of the area — by Ella Lindsay, my grandmother, and I remember at age 2-3 learning the language of “those boys,” and having to move to QA Hill with my parents then!
My parents met there, were married down the hill a block or two at Plymouth Congregational Church, and returned afterwards for a grand feast in the boarding house dining room. The front bulkhead was similar to that across the street now at that address, and the entryway was flanked by two stone lions. The second story had a widow’s walk around it for gorgeous views — similar to today.
I would so cherish seeing it in its modest glory, after hearing so much about it from my family — the breadline that formed each evening after the cook Mrs Mac cleaned up and doled out the scraps . . .the enormous linen closet that held all the mangled bed sheets . . . the way it absorbed and took care of our own down-and-out extended family members after the Depression.
Where can you lead me to find an image of it?
Hi – I’m exploring the Green Lake neighborhood with my 6th grade Geography class. Our school (Billings Middle School) is in the old Green Lake Funeral Home building at the corner of Woodlawn and Maple Leaf. I am looking for photos of the old building and history on the place. Any ideas?
Thanks
Dear Mr. Dorpat,
My name is Sonja Lowe. I spoke to you this afternoon regarding your historic photo of the building on the corner of Palantine Ave and N 85th Street.
I said that I would try to find out who owns the part of the building that is now occupied by the carpet shop. The owner’s name is Gary Brunt. His business email address is g.bruntmgmt@comcast.net
I hope this information is helpful. Thank you so much for the work you do to highlight our city’s history!
All the best,
Sonja
Enjoy your work.
Was wondering if you guys had thought of researching the historical photo archive, to see if you could find any large metal objects where Bertha is stuck?
Might be a great find for Then & Now, and benefit the tunneling operation too.
I was wondering if you had seen the stunning photographs of locales in San Francisco where contemporary photos are blended with photos taken after the 1906 earthquake, both from the same viewpoint. http://www.friendsreunited.co.uk/san-francisco-earthquake-then-and-now/Memory/dc7aa025-c2ad-4fec-abda-a0ca00ab0a2c
Great Web Site!
Always read and view Now and Then in the Seattle Times.
Thanks,.
Good Morning, I had a telephone conversation with Paul about 1 month ago. He had borrowed a photo of mine years ago at a meeting of the Women’s Century Club. He has the photo of Ballard corner of 65th and 15th N.W. The photo is taken from the porch of a house that was on the southwest corner. It shows 2 adults (one holding a toddler) with a push lawn mover and an empty field behind them where Ballard High School will be built.
Paul said he was able to work with the photo and improve the clarity and that he would email that improved photo to me.
If you could forward this message to Paul I know he will communicate with me and email me the photo.
Thank you so much for your help in this manner.
Joan King
Hello, My name is Eden, I am contacting you on behalf of Cyrus Noe a long time colleague of Mr. Dorpats. Mr. Noe would like very much to connect with Mr. Dorpat at his earliest convenience. Mr. Noe is writing his memoirs and would like to talk about certain events he and Mr. Dorpat were involved in. Thank you so much, Eden Malkoç
If you can find a picture of cars back in the early 1930’s and compare them to cars now, in particular the KIA and others very similar in box shape. Really enjoy your column. Thank you, C A Fujita
My great grandfather had a wagon and 2 horses, one bay and 1 grey. He hauled people to and from rail and docks and hotels, helped with the Denny regrade, did anything he could with the wagon and team to make money to help raise his family. I’m wondering if he is mentioned in any historical information on Seattle. His name was Curtis Scripture. Sharon Richards
See this article about photos being destroyed in Richland, WA.
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2014/11/27/3283188_richlands-reach-center-extends.html?rh=1
I never got an acknowledgement of my request for info on Curtis Scripture. Is there anywhere I can possibly research for it besides your base? Sharon Richards
Hi Paul—what a wonderful tribute you put together for Paul Heald’s celebration of life. Good to see you there.
I have a question about how to find the original plans for my house in Ravenna built in 1914, area called “Thompson’s University Addition”?—can you direct me to a resource? I have a copy of a document that looks like the one you have posted for the Brooklyn house around the first WW.
Thank you, Virginia Paquette
I read your article with interest on “Songbird sings at the former home of long-gone Frances Hotel” in Pacific NW on August 23, 2015. It wasn’t until the end of the story that I realized you were talking about Dose (not pronounced dose as in dosage from a drug store like I was saying to myself, but Dohcee). The Doce mansion was one house away from the home I grew up in on 32nd Ave. S. In fact, we always thought that the four car garage that we shared with our neighbors had at one time belonged to the Doce house. In the early 50’s when I used to walk down Doce Terrace to the steps to Mt. Baker Park to go swimming, I often stopped and talked to Mrs. Doce when she was in her yard gardening. At that time she lived in the last house on the right hand side of Doce Terrace right before the steps that go down to the park. I realize from your article that she must have been C.C. Doce’s widow. She may have been in her eighties then and told fabulous stories about the “old days” such as taking the trolley to Columbia City and/or Hillman City to go to quilting bees – sometimes an overnight affair.
Thank you, Paul, for the happy memories you give us and for filling in the gaps.
Now & Then is one of my favorite reads on Sunday. I love sharing these with my friends and family. The latest post of 1st Ave/Seneca St you can see the Galland Building 1221 2nd Ave. Amazing how close to the water front when you look at the really old Then photos.
I, too, love those columns every Sunday. Being a 4th generation Seattleite, it’s interesting and sometimes sad to see the changes. I am interested in anything about my great grandfather who had a team of 2 horses and wagon he used taking people from trains and ships to their destinations in town and back again, also for hauling anything he could including helping with the Denny Regrade. His team was a light and a dark colored horse and whenever I spot that combo in old photos, I wonder if that is his rig. His name was Curtis Scripture.
I remember well watching the 1974 Polson Bldg. fire from the Sea First Bldg. Subsequently spent 39 years as a tenant of the nearby Maritime Bldg. which had a lot of interesting tenants before it’s closure and current renovation. It would make for a great article too.
I am trying to find any information on my great grandfather who had a 2 horse team and wagon in the early 1900s in Seattle. Hauling anything he could for a living, people or “stuff”. Any old picture I see I look for the white and dark horses as his team was and hope to identify him and writing on the side of his wagon. Or anything on Curtis Scripture. If you have anything that would identify him and his wagon, I’d appreciate it.
Good luck to you, Sharon. I am a 5th generation Seattle native — my great grandfather was John Wesley Maple, who built the Maple School on Beacon Hill, and was the first treasurer for the City of Seattle. Tragically, he died in a logging accident, during a tree felling, which cut short his tenure. I have old family pictures, most of them portraits, but will look through and see if I can find anything with a wagon in it. During those early days, portraits were usually done in homes or in-studio, so I don’t hold out much hope, but will look anyway. btw, have you tried the Seattle Pioneer Museum, or the Washington State Historical Society? Either of those might be good choices. Best, Wendy Henry
Thank you for your response. My great grandfather was Curtis Scripture and he had a white horse and a dark horse pulling his wagon. I do have one picture of him and the team with wagon but can’ make out the writing on the side of the wagon. No one knew what he called his hauling business. I do know he helped with the Denny regrade, too. Sharon
thank you for your response. I didn’t think to check this site for answers. Was hoping for an e-mail from Dorpat, but glad to hear from you anyway.