A 1950 aerial with Marion Street climbing First Hill far right. That makes the next thruway up the hill Columbia Street. New the upper-left corner it reaches the early Swedish Hospital in 1950 on the Rininger corner with Summit Ave. Sixth Avenue runs along the bottom of the subject, between James Street on the right and Marion. A little more than a decade later the blocks between Sixth and Seventh were cleared for the Seattle Freeway, as it was then called. (Courtesy, Ron Edge)