Post 55 - Seattle 96 years apart.

In the Summer of 2019, that summer before the pandemic, before we were changed forever, my husband, son and I did a road trip. We travelled from our home in central Alberta to Vancouver, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and back home to Alberta. A favourite stop along the way, especially for our 15 year old son, was Seattle. We did the tourist things: the Museum of Pop Culture, Pike's Place Market, the piers. At Pier 57 we stopped in at the Alaskan Sourdough Bakery for breakfast one morning. It must have been good, because years later I still remember it. 

I didn't realize, though, that I was just a few blocks away from the corner of University and Third, an intersection photographed in this postcard from 1923, titled "Looking East on University Street".

The white building at that street corner on the left was the New Pantages Theatre. The red brick building central to the photograph is still standing at 1301 4th Avenue and houses the Capital Grille on the main floor and the Cobb Apartments above.

The postcard was sent to Jack and Nellie on May 25, 1923 from Belle. If you remember, Belle was Jack's sister.