Time-traveling through Seattle’s Battery Street Tunnel
From a 1954 ventilation test to a 2019 farewell stroll, vehicles and people filled the underground roadway. Now, viaduct rubble will do that.
Now & Then
Paul Dorpat digs into our rich local history, sharing images and stories from Seattle’s past.
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Celebrating the Alaskan Way Viaduct, coming and going
Like the double-decker highway span itself, ribbon-cutting ceremonies in 1953 and 2019 did not exactly flow perfectly.
The remnants of Seattle’s Denny Regrade
The landmark brick Colonnade Hotel, built in 1900, survives — but the ‘spite mounds’ do not.
A look along Railroad Avenue before the Alaskan Way Viaduct, and after it closed
This week, even the ‘Now’ photo is nostalgic.
‘The Pink House’ on Alki wasn’t always quite as pink — or a house
This lasting beach landmark, built in 1908, was once a grocery store.
An unwelcome beetle invasion claims 2 English elms in Wallingford
A memorial marks the spot where these stately neighborhood trees stood for decades.
An 1890 building proves not everything has changed in Belltown
Now & Then: Second and Bell was once the northwest corner of Denny Hill, before the regrade.
Everything came together at the corner of Second Avenue and Spring Street
The Singer Sewing Machine building anchored an area of architectural history, and human activity.
St. James Cathedral lost its dome in a colossal Seattle snowfall (but now the acoustics are better)
The four-day blizzard of 1916 was Seattle’s deepest snowstorm in history — and the First Hill church’s doomed dome could not withstand it.
Seattle’s pioneer mansions were a popular 1940s feature of The Seattle Times
A Seattle woman’s focus on ‘Early-Day Mansions’ featured one downtown that was owned by one of the city’s most powerful and popular couples.
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