THEN: This Nov. 16, 1911, scene, looking southeast along streetcar-tracked California Avenue at its intersection with Lander Street, shows the birth of Olmsted-designed Hiawatha Playfield, the first Seattle park to combine a fieldhouse (rear center) with outdoor recreation. A football practice is ensuing at center. Foreground storefronts include Central Grocery, which sold Seattle Ice Cream. The photo was taken from an upper floor of castle-like West Seattle Central School, which shed its elder grades in 1917 when West Seattle High School was built in the clearing at upper right. (Webster & Stevens / Seattle Municipal Archives)