File:Seattle - Railroad Avenue, 1934 (46424094792) (border cropped).jpg
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DescriptionSeattle - Railroad Avenue, 1934 (46424094792) (border cropped).jpg |
Taken from American Can Co. building at Elliott and Cedar. Item 8956, Engineering Department Photographic Negatives (Record Series 2613-07), Seattle Municipal Archives. English: Railroad Avenue, Seattle, Washington, U.S., 1934. Taken from American Can Company building at Elliott Avenue and Cedar Street, looking roughly northwest along the shore. Shows the old Union Oil Company of California (later UNOCAL, eventually part of Chevron) facility, now site of Olympic Sculpture Park. |
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Date | Taken on 13 July 1934 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Railroad Avenue, 1934 This image comes from the Seattle Municipal Archives, via Flickr.
institution QS:P195,Q19979269 |
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Author | Seattle Municipal Archives from Seattle, WA | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Camera location | 47° 36′ 53.85″ N, 122° 21′ 11.41″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 47.614958; -122.353169 |
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Pier 18 at the time, Pier 71 in the WWII-era renumbering, demolished some time in the second half of the 20th century.
Approximate area of the present-day (2019) Olympic Sculpture Park. The present-day shoreline is considerably to the west (left).
Magnolia
Garfield (later Magnolia) Bridge
Smith Cove
Queen Anne Hill
2801 Elliott Avenue, later for many years home to the Old Spaghetti Factory restaurant.
sign: "Union Oil Company"
sign: ad for Wason Coffee
signs: "76 | Union | 76", "Greasing · Tires | [illegible] Service", "Boles Service"
sign: "Grinne[ll?] & Co."
sign: "Sam Hunter Company | Builders Supplies"
sign: "Lightho[use For The Blind]"
Kinnear Park
Seawall under construction
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13 July 1934
47°36'53.849"N, 122°21'11.408"W
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- Elliott Avenue, Seattle
- Oil storage depots
- Olympic Sculpture Park
- Chevron Corporation
- American Can Company Building (Seattle)
- Destroyed buildings in Seattle
- Alaskan Way Seawall
- Wharves in Washington (state)
- Piers in Seattle on Elliott Bay
- Pier 71, Seattle, Washington
- Belltown, Seattle, Washington
- July 1934 in the United States
- 1934 in Seattle
- Black and white photographs of Seattle