Lost Seattle
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About this book
Unearths the buried bones of an invented city that was carved out of hills and bay. Early Seattleites were neither sentimental nor nostalgic destroying iconic schools libraries entire neighborhoods and high hills.They ripped out the very muscles of industry and the veins of rails and ferries on which the city was created. 68 vignettes of cast-aside Seattle are given new light including Japantown the Kalakala Joseph Mayers clock factory interurban railways Yeslers mill Capitol Hills auto row Denny Hill Moran Brothers shipyard the Carnegie Central Library Boeing and the SuperSonics. From the 1880s to the present day. This richly illustrated book brings these lost buildings structures and neighborhoods back to life to reveal the Seattle that once was.
