Farewell: Paul Dorpat looks back at nearly 38 years of Now & Then
With his last Now & Then column, its original author bids a fond farewell to friends old and new.
Paul Dorpat
Terry Pettus — a reporter, organizer and Communist — was honored in Seattle in the 1980s with a day and a park in his name
Terry Pettus organized and fought for many causes, including workers’ rights and ending poverty.
In 1959, the glass was more than half-full on the Norton Building
Seattle’s 1st tall curtain wall conveys egalitarian modernity.
This week’s ‘Then’ photo could be from Interbay or Belltown. If you know, please let us know!
For sure, it’s somewhere on the line between Ballard and Seattle.
Stacking up evidence of Seattle’s growth in the 1880s
Booming pillars of pride signaled commercial success — and population statistics confirm it.
A 1962 fire reduced the Seattle Armory to a pile of bricks, some of them falling on the viaduct
Despite a fight to rebuild the armory, or at least preserve part of it, the 1909 building was demolished in 1968.
New ways of seeing, and appreciating, familiar sights
Yesler Way is a landmark that just keeps on giving.
In the race for Seattle’s tallest tower, the banker came up short
It’s said that Lyman Cornelius Smith and banker-developer James Hoge discussed building skyscrapers while at the 1909 World’s Fair.
Seattle transit moves through the driven snow, through the years
Trolleys and buses make their way down snowy University Way, in 1937 and 2019.
The remnants of Seattle’s Denny Regrade
The landmark brick Colonnade Hotel, built in 1900, survives — but the ‘spite mounds’ do not.