With the cables open for repair running on the right up Yesler Way, this classic reveals a line-up of civic landmarks beginning with the King County Courthouse on the horizon of “Profanity Hill.” The sprawling clapboards at the subject’s center is the still celebrated Katzenjammer Kastle, City Hall following the Great Fire of 1889 for nearly 10 years. City Light’s transfer station can also be found, and closes to the photographer if Bohemian Beer, a brand I’m familiar with in that Herman Keys, my painting instructor and friend in Spokane, married into the family and thereby operated a salon for a circle of friends in the Bohemian Manse with its upper class footprint firmly planted in Spokane’s oldest distinguished neighborhood, the Brown’s Addition west of the business district.
