The Silver Inn was a popular spot for burgers in the 1930s — then for dance classes | Now & Then
The Silver Inn, long gone, was a restaurant for less than a decade. Now it’s the site of the Denny Building’s parking garage.
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There were crashes in 1936, but not involving this luxurious Lincoln | Now & Then
Decades later, this Ballard intersection would be declared the city’s ‘most dangerous.’
A groovy Now & Then that’s all about the ‘Then’ — Paul Dorpat’s 1968 Sky River Rock Festival | Now & Then VIEW
The 1968 Issue: Dorpat and a few friends created the 3-day rock ’n’ roll festival, inspired by another event they hosted: the dropping of a...
Whether in 1955 or 2018, we’ll always have Paris | PNW Magazine
With students from Bellevue’s Hillside Student Community School, photographer Jean Sherrard revisits Paul Dorpat’s youthful photo of historic Place de la Concorde.
The day the Knights Templar marched through Seattle | PNW Magazine
In July 1925, 30,000 Masons convened in Seattle for a conclave at City Hill Park.
Now & Then pays a timely visit to Big Ben | Now & Then
Photographer Jean Sherrard packs Paul Dorpat’s 1955 photos for inspiration on a summer trip abroad.
The original base camp for REI | Now & Then
Lloyd and Mary Anderson turned their West Seattle home into a recreational-supply warehouse en route to founding a retail giant.
A prized collection of billboard photos turns up some real beauties | Now & Then
After Seattle’s Great Fire of 1889, buildings featured many windows, making billboard placement difficult.
The Rozellna, however it was spelled, was the site of a tragic and mysterious death | Now & Then
The Rozellna apartments were wiped out in the early 1960s by Interstate 5. Twenty years earlier, a 43-year-old woman died after falling through a window...
Colman School survives and thrives as the Northwest African American Museum | Now & Then
Designed and built by architect James Stephen, the three-story school opened in 1910; the museum marks its 10th anniversary this year.
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