Denny’s-Swale-THEN-mr July 16, 2016 1972 × 1200 Seattle Now & Then: Denny’s Swale THEN: We imagine that the photographer A.J. McDonald waited for one of his subjects, the cable car to Queen Anne Hill, to reach the intersection of Second Ave. N. and Aloha Street below him before snapping this panorama in the mid-1890s.