northwest then + again

  I originally made this blended image for the Queen Anne Historical Society a couple years ago. The older image is by prolific Seattle photographer Asahel Curtis and dates to the early 193...

http://nwthenagain.blogspot.com/2024/02/seattles-front-lawn.html

The (Seattle) Times Square Building is a gorgeous five story flatiron at 414 Olive Way. The older portion of the image shows its construction in 1916. Blending that with the present day creat...

http://nwthenagain.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-times-square.html

Electric cars are an increasingly common sight on the streets of tech-heavy Seattle in 2019. But electric cars were, at least proportionately, more popular over a century ago. In 1912, gasol...

http://nwthenagain.blogspot.com/2019/07/charged-up.html

The first brick is laid at the corner of 2nd and Washington October 19th, 1912, but there was trouble ahead. Seattle wasn’t above taking a patronizing tone with younger towns and communi...

http://nwthenagain.blogspot.com/2019/07/bricks-of-contention.html

The Tourist & Trade pictorial section of the Seattle Sunday Times on July 12, 1936 featured a few of the city's noteworthy vistas in an article titled "Beauty For All To Share." This shot l...

http://nwthenagain.blogspot.com/2018/07/beauty-for-all.html

This is a "Then & Again" of a different stripe, though it still combines things from the past and the present. I've always been fascinated by the Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition, the elabo...

http://nwthenagain.blogspot.com/2018/07/a-newold-aype-poster.html

It only took half a decade, but I finally started posting my cross-time pics on their very own Twitter feed. Feel free pay a visit and follow us there!  It's actually not a bad way to look throu...

http://nwthenagain.blogspot.com/2018/04/twitterpated.html

  A recent eBay album purchase contained some great photos of Seattle in the early 1930s. The photographer was a woman from West Seattle who was not only a talented photographer, she was n...

http://nwthenagain.blogspot.com/2018/03/spanning-years.html

  Many Seattleites are familiar with the Great Seattle Fire of 1889, but other conflagrations have hit the city over the last century or so. One of the biggest of these was the Belltown Fi...

http://nwthenagain.blogspot.com/2018/02/fire-water.html

  A trolley car from The Puget Sound Electric Railway, better known as the Interurban, parked at its Seattle terminus on Occidental Avenue in the early 20th century (photo Lawton Gowey). T...

http://nwthenagain.blogspot.com/2018/01/interurbanity.html

    As I continue to make those cross-time images I've been relying less on Google Street View images and taking more of the "now" images myself. For the "then" pics I've been looking b...

http://nwthenagain.blogspot.com/2017/10/mystery-album-part-one.html

Here's another picture from my home town, but a lot people who grew up in the 70s and 80s will relate to this. A friend sent me a photo of the original marquee being removed at Bremerton's h...

http://nwthenagain.blogspot.com/2017/09/far-far-away.html

After a year-long break, I'm back with some new/old photo composites -- This time venturing back to my home county. A recent eBay find netted some terrific snapshots of Harry S. Truman's visi...

http://nwthenagain.blogspot.com/2017/08/just-wild-about-harry-potus-33-in.html

  I've been fortunate to hear from better informed experts on Seattle's past topology as I've posted these photo mash-ups over the last few years. That first batch especially had a few mi...

http://nwthenagain.blogspot.com/2016/07/regrade-do-over.html

This image from around 7th and Jefferson gives a sense of what it might look to drive through Seattle on I-5 in 1887 or 1888, a year or two before Washington attained statehood. The dramatic...

http://nwthenagain.blogspot.com/2016/05/just-passin-through.html

  Here we see the majestic USS Macon gliding above Seattle's Green Lake on August 22, 1934. The airship was traveling to its new station near San Francisco but took a leisurely route with...

http://nwthenagain.blogspot.com/2016/03/lighter-than-air.html

Seattle commuters: Expect construction delays on I-5 before 1962. Not that things cleared up much after that.    

http://nwthenagain.blogspot.com/2015/08/an-arterial-materializes.html

  For many Seattle old timers, 1st Avenue was historically a patchwork of bars, second hand stores and some of the city's more colorful adult-oriented businesses. As Seattle made the tran...

http://nwthenagain.blogspot.com/2015/06/onward-upward.html

Another experiment contrasting aerial views from different times. This time combining an 1891 bird’s eye view of Seattle with a semi-polygonal version from present-day Google Earth. The 18...

http://nwthenagain.blogspot.com/2015/03/change-contrast-from-on-high.html

    This is a follow-up to the previous image of Japanese Americans boarding trains on the Seattle waterfront in 1942. I thought it would be interesting to mash up two aerial images thi...

http://nwthenagain.blogspot.com/2015/01/camp-harmony.html

This site at 7th and Madison housed four different school buildings over a 75 year period, concluding with this impressive edifice. Seattle's Central School was opened in 1889 and was almos...

http://nwthenagain.blogspot.com/2014/12/2-million-bricks.html

My work took me to Bordeaux, France last week, so I thought I'd have a little fun remixing images from that part of the world. Making cross-time composites seems easier in a town where buildings...

http://nwthenagain.blogspot.com/2014/11/an-embarrassment-of-riches.html

I had a request for cross-time images set in Tacoma. Fortunately, the "City of Destiny" has preserved a wealth of beautiful old buildings, which makes aligning past and present images much ...

http://nwthenagain.blogspot.com/2014/10/city-of-destiny.html

  The postcard image was listed as a "1930s" street scene from Bremerton, but the movie marquee at the Tower Theater tells a different story. "What A Woman" starring Rosalind Russell premi...

http://nwthenagain.blogspot.com/2014/10/kitsap-war-years.html

The iconic and awesome Kalakala… Few vessels ever matched it for look and style. After its completion at the Kirkland Shipyards, Kalakala began service between Seattle and Bremerton in 1935...

http://nwthenagain.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-glory-days-of-silver-slug.html