The three views above all look east on Cherry Street from First Avenue. The top two variations on the “Cherry Street Canyon” circa 1912 after the construction of the Hoge Building at the northwest corner of Second and Cherry and on the left of both the top two view. For a civic lesson in the growth of a Western American boomtown the top two are compared to the 1880 Snow scene at the bottom. (Yesler’s pavilion is far-right, the city’s most popular venue for public meetings and entertainment.) By the reckoning of the national census in 1880 Seattle, for the first year, shows a few more residents than were counted in Walla Walla. Both were less the 4000. By 1912, Seattle’s population was well beyond 200 thousand.