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Do you guys just explore the archives now and then? You could make an endless number of articles with these kinds of pictures.
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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.
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You say "back in 1958" but in the lower left it says "Jan 14, 1950".
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@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.
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"in the lower left it says "Jan 14, 1950"."

No, it doesn't say that. It says "19501-14" and you're taking that, rightly or wrongly, to mean Jan 14, 1950.
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Actually, as Eli alluded to, it seems to be 19502-14, not 19501-14.
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Here's a photo of Empire Way sewers being worked on in 1959:

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.
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The first two times I read the headline, I wanted to read "King" as "King's". Did you do that on purpose?
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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
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Thanks, Fnarf. Changing it back to 1958.
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The cool thing is that it is showing blacks and whites working together.
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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?
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And they probably received a decent wage as well, I'm thinking, since they were probably all Union contractors.
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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.)

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