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CHS Re:Take Classic | The very first Broadway streetcar
This CHS Re:Take Classic first ran in May 2012. Sherlock Holmes says, “The wheel turns; nothing is ever new.” Evidence number one: the First Hill streetcar. Its shiny, new set of wheels will soon turn...
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CHS Re:Take | In a message home to E Union, a memorial of war in the Pacific
To H. S. Gullixson, Esq in Seattle from “R. F.” in Yokohama, Japan. 1906. Earlier this month, CHS reported that the Knights of Columbus, Seattle Council 676 is preparing to sell its 106-year-old...
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CHS Re:Take | Walking off into the sunset, Capitol Hill landmark by landmark
I dug a bit in Archive.org’s Wayback Machine and was surprised to find that CHS started in January 2006 as a Blogspot. That first recording captured a microcosm of Justin’s neighborhood writing: a...
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CHS Re:Take | The 1892 problems at Harvard and Thomas
When you are at the intersection of Harvard and Thomas and look around, it’s impossible to not be awed and a bit baffled by the utter lack of planning and engineering. You probably have an...
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CHS Re:Take | Pike’s place on Capitol Hill
Pike Street west from the edge of Minor in 1902 post-regrade blended with yesterday, January 14, 2017. The 1902 image is fantastic and worth seeing on its own. (Washington State Archives; blend by Rob...
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CHS Re:Take | The Julia’s building, past to present
Julia’s has become one of the most venerable nightlife spaces in Seattle. The drag-bar-restaurant has been open for 15 years now, and I think you qualify as a Capitol Hill old-timer if you remember...
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CHS Re:Take | In a message home to E Union, Seattle and Japan’s war with Russia
To H. S. Gullixson, Esq in Seattle from “R. F.” in Yokohama, Japan. 1906. It’s just a simple postcard. 708 E Union today is part of the parking lot next to the Knights of Columbus on Union at Boylston....
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CHS Re:Take | Born on Capitol Hill, the architect who became a pilot and a...
The home Fransioli grew up in, 1102 Harvard Ave N. Pictured in 1937 (top) and 1957 (Washington State Archives) Thomas Fransioli, 1923 (Broadway High School yearbook) Let’s have a little talk about...
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CHS Re:Take | The 10 on Pine and other forgotten buses of Capitol Hill
10 or 11 on 15th and Pine, 1970 and 2016 It’s been five months since Link’s Capitol Hill Station opened. Can you feel the difference? Everyone is walking towards the station. Bus stops around it seem...
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CHS Re:Take | When cars ruled Broadway
McKale’s Super Service station at Broadway and Roy. The Seven Hundred Broadway Building today houses apartments over Roy Street Coffee and other businesses (1937: Washington State Archives; 2016: Rob...
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CHS Re:Take | Onward for the Ward House
Ward House 1890s-2016 (The bottom photo was taken by Christine Johnson whose descendant Marianne Roulet gave a copy to Paul Dorpat who used it in a 1999 article much like this one and gave the okay for...
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CHS Re:Take | Ice cream, beer, and the Montlake Drive-In Public Market
Montlake Drive-in Market 1937 and 2016. Old one is a 1937 state assessor’s photo, from the Washington State Archives. Filed under 2200 24th Ave East. The new one I took on a recent cold morning after...
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CHS Re:Take | First Hill Streetcar Celebration Edition
CHS historian Robert Ketcherside pledged to bring us regular editions of Re:Takes featuring the rich transit history of the neighborhood until the First Hill Streetcar began service. Robert, you may...
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CHS Re:Take: Blood, snow, and Madison streetcars
Snow on Madison at Pike, c1916 with 2016 in the back. A cable car or streetcar heads towards us on Madison. (Washington State Archives King County Metro collection LS0130 and Rob Ketcherside)...
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CHS Re:Take | The Great Capitol Hill Auto Row Fire of 1925
The scene then and now (Seattle Times November 1, 1925, page 1 and Rob Ketcherside) We’ve all heard of the 1889 Great Seattle Fire (ahem), but most of us haven’t heard of the Great Automobile Row fire...
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CHS Re:Take | When will the 27,500-day streetcar service delay end?
Old photo from King County Metro Collection at Washington State Archives. New by Rob Ketcherside As I sit here writing, we are just a few days from “Streetcar Safety Day” and it will be a few more...
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CHS Re:Take | Electric cars to Capitol Hill, 1901 — waiting just a little...
Looking south on 15th Ave East from Mercer Street. Old photo from Washington State Archives, Metro collection, LS0018. I think it’s 1913. Last month I threw down the gauntlet: a new chapter in the...
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CHS Re:Take | Waiting for the First Hill Streetcar? Take a trip on Broadway,...
Looking up Broadway in about 1913, back when streetcars were uncomplicated. In the off-season, the sports media went into a tizzy about Seahawks QB Russell Wilson and his pending contract. One local...
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CHS Re:Take | A shop on 11th Ave
1427 11th on left (now Modera Apartments) next to Lorraine Apartments (the one with Wildrose). 1937 photo via Brendan McKeon, housed at Washington State Archives. 2015 by Rob Ketcherside. “An old house...
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CHS Re:Take |‘I catch the bus here’
I was really interested in neighborhood commerce back in 2007, and luckily took note of every business on Pine from Minor to Broadway. This came up in my defense of the Bauhaus block and its high...
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