My favorite part of that picture is the little girl. Is that her bike? Where was she going? Is that her house? Is that her prettiest dress? I love old pictures like that. Makes me wish I was a writer.
@3: Click the link. It says 1958. Could be a typo on the part of Seattle Municipal Archives, though, because you're right, that writing in the lower left looks like it could mean 2/14/1950. I'll change to "1950s." Thanks.
This isn't that hard, folks. Click on the link within the link, to the original archives page, and it says "Empire Way Paving Dearborn St. to King St." and "June 26, 1958". The penciled mark is not a date
I like the kid lounging on the rooflet over the door of the house. Just watching. It was Thursday, presumably afternoon after school let out, hence the girl in the pretty dress and her bike. I'm imagining the foreman telling her, "yes, you can watch if you stand there quietly". Arms behind her back.
There's another kid, caught in the moment of running around to the back of the house. Where's he going? Upstairs to hang out with his buddy on the roof?
The 1957 decision to extend Empire Way displaced many Asian-American and African-American families. In 1958 the Times' ed board used the extension project and freeway siting decisions as examples of racially-motivated injustices in Seattle.
(P.S. I love the date kerfuffle early in the thread - one must never take Bailo at face value.)
No, it doesn't say that. It says "19501-14" and you're taking that, rightly or wrongly, to mean Jan 14, 1950.
http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~scripts/n…
The photo wasn't taken on July 3rd, 1974.
Eli, I say change the date back in your post to 1958.
There's another kid, caught in the moment of running around to the back of the house. Where's he going? Upstairs to hang out with his buddy on the roof?
(P.S. I love the date kerfuffle early in the thread - one must never take Bailo at face value.)