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CHS Re:Take | Buy your rubber at City Market
1920 and 2014. There’s a good reason that it doesn’t quite match. Keep reading. (Old photo from April 11 1920 Seattle Times) Back in the 1900s, Pike and Pine were opened up to give unblocked entry from...
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CHS Re:Take | Thank Quinault for all the fresh, dried and smoked fish
Blend of 1954 Seattle Municipal Archives photo and 2010 retake It’s not clear why the 1925 apartment building at Boylston and Mercer was named Quinault. Was it named after the tribe in Grays Harbor...
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CHS Re:Take | Capitol Hill — Fancy groceries since 1912
1936 Augustine & Kyer in its final days at 15th and Republican, jammed in with Walgreens’ 2000 building. We are awash in groceries! The recent headlines are amazing with the $43 million sale of...
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Re:Take: What to call Capitol Hill when you arrive in 1885
Harrison east from Federal, 1899 by Seattle Municipal Archives (image 7292) and 2015 by a three-year-old. This is it. 2015. The year Marty McFly goes back to the future. Hoverboards, flying cars,...
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CHS Re:Take | Broadway Market v1.0, created by a developer, a lawyer, and a...
Eba’s Mutual Market in 1937 mixed with QFC a week or two ago Broadway Market must have the most varied history of any grocery center in Seattle. In the last 88 years it has housed QFC, Fred Meyer and...
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CHS Re:Take | A Broadway clock that tells history, not time
(Image: Rob Ketcherside 2015, Washington State Archives 1937) They crossed Broadway from QFC hoping to get some corporate coffee or lunch from a a 35-year-old Mexican restaurant. Instead, they ended up...
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CHS Re:Take | Piggly Wiggly on Broadway
Blend of 1937 assessors photo showing Safeway on Broadway (Washington State Archives) and 2015 (Rob Ketcherside) Seattleites, come over here for a minute and let me explain. “Piggly Wiggly stores...
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CHS Re:Take | Bribes, bootlegging, indictments and the second Mayor of...
John Francis Dore’s life deserves a book. And you deserve to read it. There isn’t one, though, so you’ll have to make do with this rather alarming selection of stories about the second mayoral resident...
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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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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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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: 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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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