Photos:
1. Chief Seattle
2. Before "Pioneer Square"
3. Downtown Seattle circa 1851
4. Trees like this used to grow in what is now Seattle!
5. Pike Place Market circa 1907
6. Pike Place Market circa 1915
7. Starbucks circa 1971
8. Starbucks circa 1971
9. Downtown Seattle circa 1870
10. Hotel Washington atop Denny Hill
11. Sluicing away Denny Hill
12. Outfitting the Klondike Gold Rushers
13. Boeing B&W/ Model #1, circa 1916
14. Pacific Aero Products/ Boeing, circa 1916
15. Boeing B&W flying past Smith Tower
16. James Marshall Hendrix - Garfield High School yearbook - 1958?
17. Bruce Lee - 1961?
18. Sam's Red Robin tavern - 1967?
19. HMS Discovery
20. HMS Discovery and HMS Chatham
21. Damage from Feb. 2001 Nisqually earthquake - This corner is now the Klondike Gold Rush Museum
22. Building the Space Needle - 1961
23. Space Needle - 1961-62
24. Space Needle nearing completion - 1962
25. Eddie Carlson's napkin sketch of his idea for the Space Needle, circa 1959
26. Victor Steinbrueck's inspiration for the 'legs' of the Space Needle - "The Feminine One" by Don Lemon
27. 1962 World's Fair promo
28. At the World's Fair, Ford exhibited a scale model of a nuclear-powered concept car named the Seattle-ite XXI
29. Promotional material for the Seattle-ite XXI
30. Snoqualmie Falls (after heavy rain)
31. Snoqualmie Falls (typically)
32. Troll!
33. As seen on the Deadliest Catch
34. Also as seen on the Deadliest Catch
35. Ballard Locks - looking east toward Lake Union
36. Empty large Lock
37. Fish Ladder at the Ballard Locks - early August w/ Chinook salmon
38. Woody Guthrie's guitar (Apparently this is not the machine that kills fascists) - @ MoPOP
39. Jimi Hendrix's Stratocaster on which he played the Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock!! - @ MoPOP
40. Spinner from 1982 Blade Runner - @ MoPOP
41. Luke Skywalker's severed hand and lightsaber from The Empire Strikes Back - @ MoPOP
42. Baby eagle on Queen Anne Hill - 2024
43. Baby eagle's parent
44. Chihuly's workshop 1
45. Chihuly's workshop 2
46. Dale Chihuly at work
47. Dale Chihuly still at work
48. Original Amazon homepage, circa 1995
49. Bill Gates in line at Dick's Drive-in - 2019
50. Me with 104 year old guest at Mt Rainier
Lady Washington - Portrayed "The Interceptor" in Pirates of the Caribbean - Seen here exiting the Locks.
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