RedFin just posted a blog entry about archival photos of Seattle. Cool! I’ve previously posted about the Washington State Archive photos (see here and here), but hadn’t heard of the Seattle Municipal Archives before. Just checked it out.
There’s nothing showing our house directly, but as we have the West Queen Anne Playfield just across the street, they have a bunch of photos that show our house (albeit small). Here’s a sample – for all of them, see the Seattle Municipal Archives Photograph Collection
| 1965 tinyurl.com/3q2kva |
Jan 26, 1968 tinyurl.com/6hwhxk |
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If you notice on the top of these pictures, there’s a community center across the street. There are some awesome pictures from the late 1930s during the Works Progress Administration construction of said community center (or shelter, as they called it then)
| Dec 21, 1936 tinyurl.com/3pvdpr |
Mar 24, 1937 tinyurl.com/4kx2t5 |
Mar 24, 1937 tinyurl.com/3stwdj |
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Also, I found the Sherwood Park History Files, which has a pretty cool pdf of the old plans for the playfield – see www.seattle.gov/parks/history/QueenAnnePF.pdf for it in all of the full glory.
And for final good measure, here’s a 1938 view of Queen Anne Ave (the main street by us) just a block or two from our house (i.e. right in front of Blaine):
| 1938 tinyurl.com/6elhdl |
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I love this old stuff – can you notice I am not working yet? Spending 15-20 minutes at a time surfing the web, and this is what I end up with :)