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About Seattle Then And
Product Description Seattle's growth from a small lumber town to one of the world's most influential urban centers has been spectacular. Little more than a century ago, the city was made up of dirt roads and timber buildings. The arrival of the Great Northern Railroad in 1893 and the start of the Klondike gold rush in 1897 changed all that. Businesses in Seattle are still booming today, but they are now less dependent on location and more on inspiration. Seattle Then and Now presents archival photos along with modern views of the same sites as they appear today, highlighting some of the best-loved places in the city along with striking examples of modern architecture that help make Seattle such a vibrant and innovative city. From the Author Thanks to Karl Mondon for taking the "now" photographs, and to Seattle's Museum of History & Industry, the Seattle Municipal Archives, the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections Division, the Rainier Valley Historical Society, Corbis and the Library of Congress for providing the historical images, taken by photographers too numerous to mention. Some historical images are new to this edition; copy has been revised or rewritten as necessary to account for the new photographs and for the many changes that have taken place in Seattle between 2010 and 2015. About the Author Born and raised in Seattle, Benjamin D. Lukoff's interest in local history was kindled at the age of six, when his father bought him settler granddaughter Sophie Frye Bass's Pig-Tail Days in Old Seattle at the gift shop of the Museum of History and Industry. He studied English, Russian, and linguistics at the University of Washington, and went on to earn his master's in English linguistics from University College London. His writing has appeared in the Pacific Northwest online newspaper Crosscut.com and on his own blog, Writesofway.org.
