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  • Miles of wind-swept beauty along a highway near Goldendale in Klickitat County. (The Seattle Times, 1950)
    Klickitat County seat
  • A new tavern at Rainier Avenue and Ferdinand Street, whose licensing resulted in controversy between the Parent-Teacher Association and the State Liquor Control Board. (The Seattle Times, 1946)
    Controversial hot spot
  • The veteran ferry Ballard is seen here during its conversion to a floating restaurant – the Golden Anchors. The stern was transformed into a glass enclosed Gold Room. After sinking twice the boat was broken up in 1973. (The Seattle Times, 1945)
    Ferry Ballard
  • A firefighter crouched in a  doorway as he poured water on the inferno inside. (Bruce McKim / The Seattle Times, 1973)
    Fighting fire
  • A farm cat near Mount Vernon. (Josef Scaylea / The Seattle Times, 1976)
    Country kitty
  • The demise of Rocky the Goat, symbol of the Great Northern Railway, extended to its removal from atop a building at 1902 Fourth Ave. The Burlington Northern trademark replaced the 56-foot-wide, 60-foot-high sign. (Bruce McKim / The Seattle Times, 1970)
    Symbolic departure
  • Panorama of Bremerton Navy Yard. (The Seattle Times Co., 1924)
    Bremerton Navy Yard
  • Downtown Buckley with a view of Mount Rainier. (Roy Scully / The Seattle Times, 1976)
    Downtown Buckley
  • One young cowboy eats dust. (The Seattle Times, 1965)
    Dusty outcome
  • Meteor Basketball Team Of 1904-They played boys' rules. Left to right, top row: E.C. Dohm, coach; Hazel Smith, Florence Thompson, Mrs. Thompson, Florence Pence, Mildred Shearer, E.H. King, manager, 4644 Sunnyside Ave., who owns picture. Second row: Zola Shamek, Hazel Mortimer, Caroyln Thompson, Garnet Pence, Estelle Keene. On floor, Ivah Pence, captain. (Seattle Times archives)
    Shooting stars
  • Scores of taxicabs park in the Denny Regrade district while drivers attend a meeting in the Teamsters' Hall, suspending all but emergency taxicab service. (The Seattle Times, 1944)
    Teamster's Hall
  • Riders finish the last part of the Frobidden City Bicycle Tour via Northbound Alaskan Way. (Chien Chi Chang / The Seattle Times, 1993)
    1993 Forbidden City Bicycle Tour
  • (Josef Scaylea / The Seattle Times)
    Postcard from Winthrop
  • Using bicycles to access to outdoor sports in Seattle. (The Seattle Times, 1946)
    Park and rides
  • (Josef Scaylea / The Seattle Times)
    Home is where the barn is
  • (Josef Scaylea / The Seattle Times)
    Into the swing of things
  • This bucolic scene was taken from the boat-launching ramp at Lake Sammamish looking southwest toward Mount Rainier just as the sun slowly sank on a warm summer night. (Bruce McKim / The Seattle Times, 1974)
    Bucolic scene
  • Snoqualmie Pass Highway. (Joseph Scaylea / The Seattle Times, 1958).
    Summer's evening drive
  • (The Seattle Times Archives)
    River flows
  • A tired and hot fire fighter found a way to cool off while fighting a stubborn blaze. (Greg Gilbert / The Seattle Times, 1974)
    Cooling off
  • Two D-hydro drivers in the Sammamish Slough race maneuvered between pillars of the Bothell Bridge and around a bend in the river. (Vic Condiotty / The Seattle Times, 1960)
    Sliding through
  • His hood drawn protectively over his face, a welder reinforces steel together in a section of the lower deck nearly ready for the pouring of concrete. (Josef Scaylea / The Seattle Times, 1952)
    Building the Viaduct
  • A flock of ducks waddled down the road in rural Mount Vernon, unperturbed by either the black cat that had crossed their path or the flurry of human activity prompted by haying season. (Josef Scaylea / The Seattle Times, 1976)
    Down the dusty road
  • Spectators on a boat watch the Blue Angels fly overhead during the 1993 Seafair. (Greg Gilbert / The Seattle Times, 1993)
    Jets overhead
  • The Seattle skyline from the King Street coal bunkers, the year the Smith Tower's steel frame was topped off. (Seattle Times Archives, 1913)
    King Street view
  • Concrete monorail tracks, through an optical illusion, appear to merge at the Medical Dental Building and Frederick & Nelson in this view looking south down Fifth Avenue from Virginia Street. (Vic Condiotty / The Seattle Times, 1961)
    A matter of perspective
  • It's branding time on the SMS Spur Ranch outside Spur, Texas. (Seattle Times Information Bureau, 1939)
    Branding time
  • The art-deco ferry Kalakala is seen on Puget Sound in the mid-1930s. Decades later it was a popular attraction during the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair. (Seattle Times Archives, 1936)
    Art Deco Kalakala
  • Winter surf crashed against the rocks below the Cape Disappointment Lighthouse. (Josef Scaylea / The Seattle Times, 1972)
    Cape Disappointment
  • A Few miles west of the little town of Scenic, the Stevens Pass Highway crosses Deception Creek, one of hundreds of streams that tumble spectacularly down the west slope of the Cascades. (Josef Scaylea / The Seattle Times, 1960)
    Tumbling Water
  • Motorists may have felt slightly out to sea while driving across the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge. Winds up to 40 miles an hour churned Lake Washington and sent waves crashing over the rail-of the bridge. (Richard Heyza / The Seattle Times, 1963)
    Natural Fury
  • The Space Needle, rising behind one of the rides at Seattle Center, was designated a historic landmark in 1999. (Benjamin Benschneider / The Seattle Times, 1999).
    Historic landmark
  • Even markets have a friendly atmosphere. This one is on Des Moines Way South. (The Seattle Times archives, 1972)
    Friendly Market
  • Offshore pinnacles and rocks appeared out of the morning fog as Justice William O. Douglas led hikers along the beach on their way from Lake Ozette to Rialto Beach, near La Push. Their purpose was to dramatize a protest against a proposed coastal highway, which would reduce the already small number of natural coastline miles in the United States. (The Seattle Times, 1958)
    Justice Douglas to Rialto Beach
  • Among the most spectacular cloud formations is the "banner" or "cap," streaming off a giant peak, in this case, Mount Baker. White caps, such as this, rarely are constant; high winds pull them apart as quickly as they form. They often contain wind-blown powder snow. (Seattle Times Archive, 1961)
    Written in the hills
  • A 1960 Cadillac at Dick’s Drive-In in Wallingford, where golden memories of cars, burgers and fries are close to the surface. (Craig Fujii / The Seattle Times, 1999)
    Dick's Drive-In
  • Nugget, a purebred Siberian Husky, visited Seattle and held an Alaskan flag to join in the celebration of Alaska's becoming the 49th state. (Paul Thomas / The Seattle Times, 1959)
    Alaskan Nugget
  • Black clouds of a spring squall boil over Shilshole Bay as a sailboat clears the breakwater. (Josef Scaylea / The Seattle Times, 1970)
    Sailing Shilshole
  • Seattle City Councilman Wing Luke, acting mayor for a week, signed his first official document in both Chinese – as Luke Wing Chung – and English. The document was a bond for a heating-equipment dealer’s license.  Luke is the first person of color on the Seattle City Council and the first Asian American elected to public office in the Pacific Northwest. (Times staff photo by Larry Dion, 1964)
    Councilman Wing Luke
  • The two dots in the foreground were swimmers who had a water-level view of the ferry Elwha off Edmonds. The boat was headed for Kingston on the Kitsap Peninsula. (Cole Porter / The Seattle Times, 1978)
    The sound and the ferry
  • Grain in shocks near Toledo, Lewis County. The shocks and Mount St. Helens, whose graceful lines resemble those of Fujiyama, gave the scene the appearance of a Japanese landscape. (Josef Scaylea / The Seattle Times, 1968)
    Grain shocks
  • Mount Rainier, 1965. (Josef Scaylea / The Seattle Times)
    View from Enumclaw
  • Open since 1921 in the Wallingford neighborhood, the art deco Guild 45th (shown in 1982) abruptly ended its run in June 2017. (Peter Liddell / The Seattle Times)
    Art Deco Guild 45th in Wallingford
  • A ground view of the Ravenna sinkhole taken Nov. 15, 1957. (George Carkonen / The Seattle Times)
    1957 Ravenna Boulevard crater
  • Barricades block sidewalks of homes along the Ravenna Avenue sinkhole the day after it appeared. (Seattle Times Archive, 1957)
    Sinking feeling
  • This aerial photograph shows progress of construction work on elevated portions of the Seattle Freeway east of Lake Union on Oct. 1, 1962. On the hill at right is St. Mark’s Cathedral. (Paul V. Thomas / The Seattle Times)
    I-5 construction
  • (Seattle Times Photo Archive)
    Space Needle Triptych
  • A Garfield High School All-State basketball player, makes his debut as a trackman in the Bulldogs' dual-meet victory over Ballard at the West Seattle bowl. (Seattle Times Photo Archives, 1955)
    Track and field
  • A couple in silhouette shared a rope swing near the beach. (Peter Liddell / The Seattle Times, 1970)
    Hanging tight
  • A storm cloud drifted over the Community Methodist Church in Conconully, Okanogan County. (Josef Scaylea / The Seattle Times, 1976)
    Conconully Methodist Church
  • Mount Rainier. (Josef Scaylea / The Seattle Times, 1970)
    Mount Rainier
  • "Black Sun" sculpture at Volunteer Park.  Created by Isamu Noguchi from a single piece of black granite, the work is 9 feet in diameter and weighs 12 tons. (Jim Bates / The Seattle Times, 1988)
    A rock-solid view
  • A scene from Lake Crescent on Oct. 13, 1968. (Josef Scaylea / The Seattle Times)
    Lake Crescent in Olympic national Park
  • Members of the Seattle Bike Club. (Seattle Times Archives, 1930)
    Seattle Bike Club
  • Bat-Day crowd of 14,363 watched Pilots complete three-game series sweep over Senators in Sicks Stadium. (Greg Gilbert / The Seattle Times, 1969)
    Bat Day crowds
  • With their cattle secure for the night in corrals in the hills northeast of Ellensburg, three wranglers head home. (The Seattle Times, 1956)
    Cattle secured
  • Traffic is stopped throughout downtown. (Ron De Rosa / The Seattle Times, 1978)
    Seattle Gay Pride Week march
  • Seattle Times File, 1950
    Pike Place Market, 1950
  • Viewed from the air over Elliott Bay, the Alaskan Way Viaduct appears to underline Seattle’s skyline. In the foreground, a Princess ship from Canadian Pacific Lines heads to its pier. (Larry Dion / The Seattle Times, 1951)
    Seattle has changed
  • A march estimated at 10,000 people makes its way to Memorial Stadium at Seattle Center on April 7, 1968, for a tribute to Martin Luther King Jr., three days after the civil-rights leader was killed. (Bruce McKim/The Seattle Times, 1968)
    Tribute march
  • A penmanship workbook left in the old school in Ronald, Kittitas County. (Jerry Gay / The Seattle Times, 1976)
    Write in Kittitas
  • Winston, "door dog" at the Pacific Plaza Hotel. (Greg Gilbert / The Seattle Times, 1981)
    Bullish for bulldogs
  • Two members of the Seattle Prep football team practice kicking before the season opener against Bellingham High at Civic Stadium. (Seattle Times Archives, 1940)
    Kickin' it old school
  • Aerial view of construction of the Northgate Shopping Center on March 3, 1950. This view is looking southeast, with Fifth Avenue Northeast in the background and Northeast Northgate Way running left to right in foreground. The building under construction in the foreground is Northgate Hospital. (Seattle Times archive)
    Northgate Mall in the 1950s
  • Players on the 1907 Seattle High School touring baseball team. (The Seattle Times Archives)
    Hitting the road
  • Two boxers were silhouetted in this photo. (Peter Liddell / The Seattle Times, 1971)
    Boxed set
  • 1900 Girls  intercollegiate basketball squad at the University of Washington. From left, top row, Winifred McGrath, Jessie Barlow, Pearl McDonnell; bottom row, Stella Brintnall, Blanche Winsor, Ann Mitchell, Bess McDonnell. (The Seattle Times archives)
    Girls got game
  • For the 1962 World’s Fair, a newcomer cropped up among the onion-shaped spires of St. Spiridon's Cathedral, a Russian Orthodox church. (Johnny Closs / The Seattle Times, 1973)
    Cascade neighborhood skyline
  • The Space Needle commemorates the 10th anniversary of the Seattle World’s Fair. A brisk wind carries streams of downward-pointing white fountain fireworks. (Johnny Closs / The Seattle Times, 1972)
    Happy 10th!
  • Firemen (from left to right): Captain L.P. Davis, Julius Matison And Albert Erickson. The horses are the famous team of Toby, Ceasar and Spider; Ceasar, in the middle, can't be seen. (Seattle Times archives, 1913)
    Steam pump truck
  • The 12 players on the 1907 Seattle High School touring baseball team were from the left: Top row – Charles Schmutz, pitcher; Jay Smith, second base; Wee Coyle, center field; James Agnew, pitcher | Middle row – Charley Mullen, first base; Ernie Maguire, shortstop; Harold H. Stewart, right field and team manager for the tour; Fred Hickingbottom, left field; Roy Hilton, infielder | Front row – Merton Hemenway, catcher; Harry Martin, third base, and Ten Million, left field. (Seattle Times archives)
    Seattle boys make good
  • Portage Bay as seen from the west side of the Montlake Bridge. A two-masted sailing craft, moved into the sun-stream. (Josef Scaylea / The Seattle Times, 1961)
    Bridge over Montlake Cut
  • Public Market Center, 1939. (Seattle Times archives)
    Public Market Center | Seattle | 1939
  • A veteran of the First World War, Frankland returned to school and delivered papers while attending the University of Washington where he lettered in track under Hec Edmundson. In his freshman year he got a job at Mount Rainier National Park and subsequently worked eight summers at the park. (Seattle Times archives, 1948).
    C. F. “Chuck” Frankland starred in track
  • Seattle Times photographer Josef Scaylea returned again and again to the Skagit Valley. Mount Baker looms behind the little village of Conway. (Josef Scaylea / The Seattle Times, 1983)
    Along the Skagit River
  • Alki Point Lighthouse stands a solitary vigil on wintry evenings, its windows aglow in contrast to the snow all around and the off-stormy sea beyond. (Josef Scaylea / The Seattle Times, 1950)
    A beacon on the beach
  • The Space Needle and Mount Rainier dominated The skyline from Queen Anne Hill. Even Mount St. Helens, right, was visible. (Johnny Closs / The Seattle Times, 1963)
    On a clear day
  • An East African crown crane. (Veronica  Decker / The Seattle Times, 1989)
    Fantastic fowl
  • Across the bay from ice-bound Seattle, high winds blew Puget Sound waves into spray that froze on a chain fence at Duwamish Head on Alki Beach. (Tom Reese / The Seattle Times, 1990)
    Frozen spray
  • A fireman moves away from a burst of flame atop a West Seattle house. (Matt McVay / The Seattle Times, 1979)
    Firefighter near flames
  • As a pair of snowplows carves out the North Cascades Highway near Washington Pass, a Highway District 2 supervisor sucks on a favorite local refreshment, of which there seems an unlimited supply - the original snow cone. (Tom Reese / The Seattle Times, 1988)
    Ice cream for snow
  • A 1,000-ton wooden floating drydock, purchased by the Lake Union Drydock Company as surplus equipment from the United States Maritime Commission, was shown from the Ballard Bridge as it arrived in Seattle after being towed from Scow Bay, near Port Townsend, by the tugboat Sandra Foss. The drydock was 240 feet long and 64 feet wide. (Roy Scully / The Seattle Times, 1947)
    Towing a dry dock
  • In the mosh pit, Lollapalooza concert-goers undulate to the rhythm and pass moshers over their heads to the front of the stage. (Tom Reese / The Seattle Times, 1992)
    Passing overhead
  • On a barge below the then-new I-90 bridge, a workman arranged anchors cables and chains which temporarily moored the bridge. (Tom Reese / The Seattle Times, 1990)
    Bridge anchor
  • Freezing weather, sunshine and powder snow on Denny Mountain at the Alpental resort near Snoqualmie Pass. Mount Rainier is at right behind the snow crystals left in the skier’s wake. (Josef Scaylea / The Seattle Times, 1973)
    Getting a lift
  • This is Buddy. He's part Airedale and part Labrador Retriever. (Jerry Gay / The Seattle Times, 1973)
    Alki Retriever
  • The Space Needle stands tall in the sunshine before a dramatic backdrop of building cumulous clouds. (Peter Haley / The Seattle Times, 1983)
    Accumulating clouds
  • An Iron worker climbs the outside steel beam at the very top of the AT&T Gateway Tower. The 62-story view behind him looks North with downtown Seattle in the foreground. (Greg Gilbert / The Seattle Times, 1989)
    Guy in the sky
  • Built in 1906, the King Street Station replaced the old Great Northern depot on Railroad Avenue between Marion and Columbia. A large clock tower dominated the new building providing time for the entire Skid Road area. (The Seattle Times, 1930)
    Training day
  • Paul Jessup, the tall captain of the Husky team shows Head Coach Enoch Bagshaw (right) and Line Coach Bart Spellman how it is done. (The Seattle Times, 1931)
    Tall order
  • The old school in Ronald, Kittitas County, seemed to be nodding as its weathered siding caught the warmth of the afternoon sun. (Jerry Gay / The Seattle Times, 1976)
    Old school
  • Sparkling Waters gurgling past snow-covered rocks symbolize the beauty of winter. (Josef Scaylea / The Seattle Times, 1960)
    Water you waiting for?
  • The KISW Miss Rock went air-borne when its driver, Ken Dryden, lost control after the boat’s rudder cable broke loose in the south turn during qualifying races on Lake Washington. (Greg Gilbert / The Seattle Times, 1993)
    This Rock is rollin'
  • Ron De Rosa, Times staff photographer won the $500 first prize in the Brunswick Corporation's 1963 National Bowling Photo Contest. The candid photographs captured the drama of a night of bowling in March, 1962, at Ideal Recreation. De Rosa used a T-model Rolleiflex and tri-X film. With available light only, he shot at 1/60 of a second with lens opening of f 3.5. (Ron De Rosa / The Seattle Times)
    Bowled over
  • This forlorn automobile stalled in front of The Seattle Times office. More than a foot of snow covered Fairview Avenue North and John Street. It also drifted through an open window into the car’s interior. The Times published its editions as usual despite the weather. (The Seattle Times, 1950)
    Snow way out
  • The edge of the earth. (Josef Scaylea / The Seattle Times)
    La Push
  • Racquel, the orphan raccoon, grew too big and demanding for her foster mother, a cat at the city animal shelter. Animal shelter employees worked with the Game Department to teach her to fend for herself and set her free when she was old enough. (Ron De Rosa / The Seattle Times, 1979)
    Different breed of cat
  • The vane on the house in the Magnolia area is a neighborhood conversation piece. A neighbor said it has been on the roof since the 1930s. (Peter Liddell / The Seattle Times, 1983)
    Every witch way
  • Horses roam the early morning pastures of Woodinville. (Josef Scaylea / The Seattle Times, 1964)
    Home on the range
  • (Roy Scully / The Seattle Times, 1971)
    River ride
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