From the never-ending source of delight that is the Seattle Municipal Archives’ Flickr account.
Thank you, Slog tipper Jake, and confidential to engineering department employee Myra Phelps: I could not love you more.
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she wrote a book:
Myra L. Phelps, Public Works in Seattle: A Narrative History: the Engineering Department, 1875-1975 (Seattle: Seattle Engineering Department, 1978)
I can’t stand the word ‘heart’ as a replacement for ‘love,’ but I really heart ol’ Myra here.
Ahhh! I love her too!
She wrote a book called “Public Works in Seattle 1875-1975: A Narrative History.” It’s actually wonderful.
@1 – You beat me to it because I picked the book up to confirm this and got sucked in.
Every time I’m reminded of this archive, I lose entire days.
Totally, Kid Icarus.
I can’t click the link because I have studying left to do
Is she Drew Barrymore’s grandmom?
you only like her because she is wearing the female version of your glasses
Anyone who looks like that and is named Myra, HAS to be a hoot…
“I’m in love with you”, the Artist thinks, “And I don’t ever have to see you again.”
I bet she was a scream at the office Christmas party. (she probably knew all the good gossip and had a good recipe for fudge or something.)
Personally, I love the City Light Home Economics girls – especially Mary Norris. She had a sort of tragic beauty.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/seattlemuni…
And I love the happy lineman in this one, as well as the questioning housewife….
http://www.flickr.com/photos/seattlemuni…
But this one really sums up, for me at least, the experience of being a city employee. Bad proofreading really is timeless, isn’t it?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/seattlemuni…