LaRoche-WESTERN-MILL-ACROSS-WESTLAKE-WEB

Sometime early in this millenium, I wrote a now-then on this look east to the Western Mill and across Westlake Avenue. Mercer Street would be on the far right and Valley on the far left, although the su subject reaches neither of them. I have lost this feature but will surely find it on some disk or pile. The “now” I took to repeat it has surfaced and it follows. It was taken from the second floor of the McKay dealership, and it does reach wide to Mercer and Valley. The third view the follows it is probably the second oldest detail of the neighborhood. It too looks east across the southern end of Lake Union, and when the lake reached a block or more south beyond Valley Street. We will included the oldest look tin the south end next – a feature on the narrow-gauged coal train that began running from here to the Pike Street Wharf in 1872.

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