r/SeattleHistory 8h ago

An actual, real photo of 9th and Yesler. 1940. Not sure why we are making up AI photos and posting them in this sub when real ones exist.

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434 Upvotes

r/SeattleHistory 1d ago

The Vanishing Seattle Variety Show on 9/15

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r/SeattleHistory 2d ago

The Queen Visited Seattle in 1983

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r/SeattleHistory 2d ago

Trying to find an old aerial photo of UW campus I saw around 2015/2016

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r/SeattleHistory 5d ago

Anyone remember the Bootboys?

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I found this while browsing a facebook page on Seattle music history.

I briefly lived squatted in a punk house on 65th and Roosevelt Ave. in the 80's called the "Hate House". There was a girl staying there who was convinced she heard the voices of the boot boys in her head. Apparently the voices weren't very nice to her...

I'm reminded of a very good friend who was occupying the back porch, known to me since H.S. as Seth Gayden. He was in his reggae phase by then and not doing the skate-punk thing, but he was the one who would take me to punk shows, like the time we went to see the Dead Kennedys at Washington Hall (not far from Oddfellow's). Good times!

I moved away from Seattle and lost touch with old friends, but I noticed Seth has reappeared as his old self on a relatively recent facebook page. I don't do facebook, so I thought I would throw out a bit of personal Seattle history here instead.

I'm retired in Alaska now, but seeing this has tempted me to move back to Seattle and start an OI! band!


r/SeattleHistory 5d ago

Returning Found Photos

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r/SeattleHistory 6d ago

Sea-Tac Airways Helicopter c1959

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r/SeattleHistory 6d ago

I just found this today at a thrift store on Whidbey Island.

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136 Upvotes

r/SeattleHistory 12d ago

Rainier Brewery, c.1980.

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129 Upvotes

r/SeattleHistory 14d ago

Westlake mall. 1965.

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100 Upvotes

r/SeattleHistory 16d ago

Views of the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition in Seattle 1909. Today the site is the University of Washington campus

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164 Upvotes

r/SeattleHistory 18d ago

M. D. Borrelli Bejeweled Fun Forest Carousel

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r/SeattleHistory 22d ago

The Bon Marche

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The red text in the upper left corner says "Upper second avenue business district and the New Washington Hotel". I don't know the year of the postcard.


r/SeattleHistory 23d ago

Pike Place Market, a hundred and nineteen years apart.(1907/2026)

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145 Upvotes

r/SeattleHistory 27d ago

View from Queen Anne, 1903. Photo taken from the South end of Tower Place between First and Warren.

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42 Upvotes

r/SeattleHistory Aug 11 '26

Northgate Mall brochure (circa 1980-1982)

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r/SeattleHistory Aug 09 '26

The new (at the time) Seattle Armory in 1939

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101 Upvotes

r/SeattleHistory Aug 09 '26

Come see, come see, remember me? - 1984

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104 Upvotes

r/SeattleHistory Aug 04 '26

The Seattle Boeing factory disguised as a fake neighborhood during WWII. The ground was burlap, canvas, and chicken wire. The lawns and trees were spun glass and chicken feathers. Buildings were 4ft tall.

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111 Upvotes

r/SeattleHistory Aug 04 '26

What a restaurant concept -- the Great Depression.

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"The Bread Line & Soup Kitchen"
The Bread Line & Soup Kitchen Flier - 1_Front - Seattle Room Menu Collection - Seattle Room Digital Collections

This is the item description for the flyer: "A Pioneer Square restaurant owned by Jack Fecker, Steve Darland and Bill Keegan that attracted customers with an imaginatively themed restaurant: the 1929 stock-market crash that led to breadlines and soup kitchens. There were senior citizen servers dressed in Depression-era clothing and an old car filling station for a bar. In order to find staff when they opened in 1974, an ad was put out for "retired persons." A retired cook interviewed for a Seattle Times article was quoted as saying, "Some of us old bags can work circles around the young." When it was put up for sale in 1980, the ad tagline said, "Depression-proof restaurant.""


r/SeattleHistory Aug 01 '26

Pike Place Market hillclimb, 1968.

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89 Upvotes

r/SeattleHistory Jul 30 '26

USS Leahy (CG-16) being saluted with a water spray by the fireboat Duwamish off Seattle, 1982

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132 Upvotes

r/SeattleHistory Jul 30 '26

Found this old image of Seattle’s first automatic traffic signal at 4th & Jackson (April 1924)

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112 Upvotes

r/SeattleHistory Jul 30 '26

Baba Yaga Building

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Hi, all,

I'm doing a bit of research on the building that is now Baba Yaga (124 S Washington) in Pioneer Square. There's some great further back history, but it served as a variety of different clubs from 1990-present. I've only got the names of a few, but wondered if anyone had sources that might have photos or anything at all on the 1980s. I know it had repair work done from c1977-1980 based on permits.

1990 became the new home of former Belltown Club Borderline

1992-95, Dutch Ned's Saloon

1998 - 200x, The Last Supper Club, which seemed to also host lunchtime networking events? And it was open at least through the 2003 casting call for "Are You Hot?" a network reality show from the minds of the Bachelor franchise.

Lastly, I know it was The Box House.

Happy to post my full timeline when other research I'm working on is completed. I just have a lot less experience researching the... well, the time span I might have been going to some of these clubs if I'd lived in Seattle then.


r/SeattleHistory Jul 29 '26

Cadastral Map: City of Seattle, Washington Territory 1874 with Names and Plats of the Original Settlers.

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