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  • 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
  • Free Show: Sidewalk superintendents looked over the wall at First Avenue and Seneca Street to observe work on the $390,000 ramp under construction from the Alaskan Way Viaduct's northbound deck. (The Seattle Times, 1961)
    Construction of the Seneca Street ramp
  • A few loose ends of the freeway stood on their supporting structures waiting to be "plugged into" future construction. The I-90 interchange stubs, as seen from South Connecticut Street and Airport Way South, seemed to grope in space without purpose. (Ron DeRosa / The Seattle Times, 1966)
    Byway awaits the highway
  • Workmen with machines stay busy as work progresses on construction of the Connecticut Street Interchange of the freeway on May 16, 1965. Connecticut Street was renamed Royal Brougham Way after the beloved Seattle sports writer. In the background is the PacMed building, also known as Pacific Tower. (Johnny Closs / The Seattle Times)
    Connecticut Street Interchange cons..tion
  • Engineers turned on lights of the Alaskan Way viaduct for the first time. This photograph, looking south along the viaduct's upper deck from a point near Bell Street, shows how the new structure looked at night. (George Carkonen / The Seattle Times)
    Seattle's Viaduct in 1953
  • A welder cuts a section of pipe for a temporary viaduct support beam. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times, 2008)
    Reinforcement for viaduct
  • Downtown Seattle looms behind the south portal of the Highway 99 tunnel, which isn’t generating enough toll income to pay for maintenance and $200 million in construction debt. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
    Downtown looms
  • A journeyman guides a steel girder into place on a future ramp connecting Interstate 405 south to Highway 520 east. (Teresa Tamura / The Seattle Times, 1993)
    Steely determination
  • After being trapped underground and broken, a cutting head assembly is finally brought to the surface for repairs, temporarily stopping some workers in their tracks.<br />
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Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times
    Bertha Surfaces
  • With the north end, at right, seemingly suspended in the air, the freeway bridge over Lake Union was reported three weeks ahead of schedule. Workmen planned to set into place the first nine, 70-foot-long steel beams to connect the two sections. (Johnny Closs / The Seattle Times, 1980)
    Bridging the gap
  • The Battery Street Tunnel sketched at the south entrance in Belltown. (Gabriel Campanario / The Seattle Times)
    Battery Street Tunnel
  • 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
  • Some of the more inspired ideas for repurposing the Battery Street Tunnel included building a giant swimming pool and water park, a big bocce court, a skateboard park, a marijuana pea patch or a night club. (Gabriel Campanario / The Seattle Times)
    Battery Street Tunnel North Portal
  • Auctioneer Donne pointed his cane to the successful bidder as he sold this brick apartment building at 603 E. 43rd St., on June 21, 1958 in a State Highway Department auction of buildings in the Seattle freeway path. (The Seattle Times archives)
    Sold!
  • A crew member of the ship carrying Bertha, the giant boring machine, is in red (far right) dwarfed by the 57 1/2-foot cutting face of the machine. <br />
Alan Berner / The Seattle Times
    Bertha
  • Thousands of people walk through the new Highway 99 tunnel Saturday as part of a car-free preview and weekend celebration. The tunnel, a replacement for the Alaskan Way Viaduct, opens to cars Monday. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)
    A huge achievement
  • House movers lead this four-unit brick apartment building on oak rollers on 18-by-20-inch beams along East 43rd Street from Pasadena Place to a new site at Eighth Avenue Northeast and East (now Northeast) 43rd Street on Aug. 28, 1958. (Seattle Times archive)
    Seattle homes saved from the I-5 wre..ball
  • 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
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