Now & Then

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Clay Eals and Jean Sherrard dig into our rich local history, sharing images and stories from Seattle’s past.

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NOW: A nearer prospect emerges from an offramp with the aid of a 20-foot pole. The Northern Pacific Headquarters, now an office building, was last remodeled in 1983. Old City Hall, placed on the most endangered list of the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation in 2011, is being extensively restored by developer SURGE Tacoma and due to reopen in 2023. Credit: Jean Sherrard

August 4, 2022 at 7:00 am

This 1910 City of Destiny portrait makes ‘You’ll Like Tacoma’ a winning slogan

The slogan "You'll Like Tacoma" had been adopted by Tacoma promoters during archrival Seattle’s first world’s fair, the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.

NOW1: Repeating the pose at the William Hannan home, now situated at Bothell Landing and housing the Bothell Historical Museum (BothellHistoricalMuseum.org), are 18 women, four girls and a man, including several descendants of historical city figures. For names of those pictured, visit PaulDorpat.com. Credit: Jean Sherrard

NOW1 (with full identifications, for possible online use): Repeating the pose at the William Hannan home, now situated at Bothell Landing and housing the Bothell Historical Museum (BothellHistoricalMuseum.org), are 18 women, four girls and a man, including several descendants of historical city figures. Complete identifications follow. Standing, back left: Bill Carlyon, great-grandson of Bothell pioneers William and Jemima Hannon and grandson of Gladys Hannan Worley, their daughter, who was born and married in the parlor. Standing, from left: Pat Pierce, Jill Keeney, Jeanette Backstrom, Sue Kienast, Melanie Carlyon McCracken (daughter of Bill and Emmy Carlyon and great, great granddaughter of the Hannans), Pippin Sardo, Emmy Carlyon (wife of Bill Carlyon), Margaret Turcott, JoAnne Hunt, Linda Avery, Margaret Carroll, Mary Evans and Pamela McCrae. Seated, from left: Terry Roth, Iva Metz, Carol King, Nancy Velando and Mary Anne Gibbons. Children in front, from left: Wendy Stow (Linda Avery’s granddaughter) and Camille, Evelyn and Mira McCracken (great, great, great granddaughters of the Hannans).

July 28, 2022 at 7:00 am

Born of war, the Woman’s Relief Corps represented our ‘higher sphere’ VIEW

Starting in 1866, Civil War Union soldiers formed the Grand Army of the Republic. In 1883, their wives, and others, began gathering in the Woman’s...

THEN1: Taken from a Lenora Street overpass that was removed in 1983, this view looks south along the timber trestle of then-Railroad Avenue on June 22, 1934. The Smith Tower presides at distant center. Credit: Seattle Municipal Archives

July 21, 2022 at 7:00 am

A tableau of ‘Eight Arcs’ signifies transformation on Alaskan Way VIEW

Today you can count eight arcs from Alaskan Way, but little — besides the Smith Tower (1914) in the distance — is the same when...

THEN2: A procession of seven Soap Box Derby cars is towed on the same route in the 1956 parade. The Fall City Hotel and Café’s neon sign glows, with the initial letter in the bottom word alternating to drive home the message “GOOD” and “FOOD.” Credit: Larry Divers / Courtesy Fall City Historical Society

July 14, 2022 at 7:00 am

A parade of community continuity thrives in tiny Fall City VIEW

This summer, after a two-year pandemic hiatus, parades are back all over the area. One of the earliest was June 11 in Fall City, 25...

NOW: The mirrored, curved exterior of McCaw Hall sports an outside passageway, the Kreielsheimer Promenade. Captured on Memorial Day during Seattle’s first Northwest Folklife Festival since 2019, musicians gather on the steps for a jam session (clockwise from lower left): Doug Plummer, John Trump, Lawson Cannon, Karen Dale, Kathy Brown and Mark Hinds. Credit: Jean Sherrard

July 7, 2022 at 7:00 am

A Seattle saloonkeeper’s civic sensibility inspired a lasting auditorium

One confirmed bachelor might have conjured an act of civic generosity that ended up supporting arias in the centuries to come in Seattle.

NOW1: More than 100 people support the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation (PreserveWA.org) in front of the fenced-off Masonic Home, including ex-Des Moines mayor Richard Kennedy (mid-left, with accordion) and 7 elected officials: Des Moines City Council member J.C. Harris (right of Kennedy, red hat), King County Executive Dow Constantine (left, black jacket), King County Council member Joe McDermott (behind Constantine, left), state Rep. Tina Orwall (D-33rd, behind Constantine, right), Normandy Park Mayor Sue-Ann Hohimer (right of Orwall), Highline School Board member Azeb Hagos (front, standing, second from left, print shirt) and SeaTac City Council member Peter Kwon (back row, left center, dark glasses). Credit: Clay Eals

June 30, 2022 at 7:00 am

Will Des Moines’ majestic Masonic Home be demolished?

Some consider rehabilitation of the Masonic Home — built in 1925-27 by the European-rooted Freemasons — to be too costly to pencil out.

THEN 2 (Possible on-line only): Motorcycle club members rendezvous at 7 a.m. on July 3, 1910, near Pioneer Square. Credit: Courtesy Museum of History & Industry

June 23, 2022 at 7:00 am

Vroom with a view: Today’s bikers still ‘see everything,’ 112 years later VIEW

These early motorcycles were not dependable, and an extended trip demanded equal reservoirs of luck, mechanical improvisation and sheer tenacity.

THEN1: Fronted by three cars, including a 1927 Pierce-Arrow (center) and 1927 Cadillac (right), Bleitz Funeral Home presides next to the Fremont Bridge and along the Lake Washington Ship Canal circa 1930. The building’s architect and builder are unknown. Credit: Pierson Photo Co., Emmick Family Collection

June 16, 2022 at 7:00 am

Bleitz’s consumer-first legacy distinguished its 101-year-old funeral home VIEW

The building for long-respected Bleitz Funeral Home today showcases “adaptive reuse,” meriting an award in May from the Queen Anne Historical Society.

THEN: The family of Carrie Coe stands near Denny Hall circa 1895. Named to honor the “father of the university,” Arthur A. Denny, the building was the first of many that filled the new north-end campus. Enough construction materials remained to erect a second building nearby, the still-extant observatory. Credit: Courtesy Mrs. Herbert Coe

June 9, 2022 at 7:00 am

All-in-one Denny Hall arose first on UW’s relocated campus

Named to honor the “father of the university,” Arthur A. Denny, the University of Washington building was the first to fill the new north-end campus.

NOW3: Owners of the Bush House Inn — (at left) the six-member Corson family as well as (next to them) Dan Kerlee (green shirt) and wife Carol Wollenberg (pink sweater) — join Index volunteers and the visiting Millers of West Seattle’s Husky Deli in late April in front of the hotel. Third from right in the front row, matriarch Marie Miller was celebrating her 93rd birthday. Credit: Clay Eals

June 2, 2022 at 7:00 am

Index’s only inn perseveres amid historic charm and challenge VIEW

The Bush House Inn's restored building in Index holds promise as not only a travelers’ getaway but also a center for events and entertainment.

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