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In case you wondered how Pioneer Square's streets were raised after the Great Seattle Fire, this series of 3 photos taken 1889-1892 at today's Pioneer Place (most likely by Arthur Churchill Warner) shows that it was a gradual and chaotic process over that 3 year period. First pic bottom right shows

cornerstones of Pioneer Building's original SW entrance had just been set, and the modern sidewalk level was being framed out, noticeably higher than the level of the street. A piece of the retaining wall for the newly raised streets is visible, along with stacks of prism glass panels for the new sidewalks. What had been ground floor of pre-fire Yesler-Leary Building, bottom left, also visible.

Second pic shows Front Street raised a bit as the Pioneer Building goes up. Third pic is misdated. Pioneer Building was completed 1892, not 1890. Street and sidewalks at modern level. University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections.

u/BeachBumWithACamera — 4 days ago
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Seattle's oldest statue is not Chief Seattle but 1903 ten-foot bronze Lady Rainier created in Germany for Seattle Brewing & Malting Company, now at Old Rainier Brewery in SoDo. Water bubbled out of chalice to look like beer foam, but turned off 1916 due to Prohibition, never to be turned back on:

u/BeachBumWithACamera — 5 days ago
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Ten-foot bronze Lady Rainier created in Germany in 1903 for Seattle Brewing & Malting Company proudly stands outside old Rainier Brewery in Georgetown. Originally water bubbled out of chalice to look like beer foam, but fountain was turned off in 1916 due to Prohibition, never to be turned back on:

u/BeachBumWithACamera — 7 days ago
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Nothing better to cap off a hot wildfire-infused week here in Seattle than with a Dark Chocolate Dipped Chocolate Cookie Crumble Purple Vanilla milkshake from Pioneer Square's Pastry Project! 😎😋

u/BeachBumWithACamera — 11 days ago
▲ 45 r/SeattlePhotoClub

Mountains surrounding Seattle visible for first time in a week as sea breezes push eastern Washington wildfire smoke out of Puget Sound. Mount Constance of the Olympic Mountains viewed from Alki Beach:

u/BeachBumWithACamera — 12 days ago
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The Last Day of Pioneer Seattle, June 5, 1889, looking east up Mill Street from Post Street. Every building pictured would be destroyed the next day, June 6, 1889, in the firestorm that came to be called the Great Seattle Fire (unattributed photo).

Roughly same view two days later by John P. Soule (Seattle Room Digital Collections, Seattle Public Library).

u/BeachBumWithACamera — 15 days ago